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Server Administrator Version 8.5 Installation Guide — Microsoft Windows

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Custom Installation

The sections that follow describe how to install Server Administrator and other managed system software using the Custom Setup option.
  • NOTE: Management station and managed system services can be installed in the same or in different directories. You can select the directory for installation.
  • NOTE: To install the drivers successfully, the installer runs in an elevated privilege mode.

To perform a custom installation:

  1. Log in as a built-in Administrator, Domain Administrator, or user who is a part of Domain Admins and Domain Users group, to the system on which you want to install the system management software.
  2. Close all open applications and disable any virus-scanning software.
  3. Insert the Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD into the system's DVD drive. The autorun menu is displayed.
  4. Select Server Administrator from the autorun menu and click Install. The Server Administrator prerequisite status screen is displayed and runs the prerequisite checks for the managed system. Any relevant informational, warning, or error messages are displayed. Resolve all error and warning situations, if any.
  5. Click the Install, Modify, Repair, or Remove Server Administrator option. The Welcome to the Install Wizard for Server Administrator screen is displayed.
  6. Click Next. The Software License Agreement is displayed.
  7. Click I accept the terms in the license agreement and then click Next. The Setup Type dialog box is displayed.
  8. Select Custom and click Next. The Custom Setup dialog box is displayed.
  9. Select the required software features you want to install on the system. If you are installing Server Administrator on an unsupported system, the installer displays only the Server Administrator Web Server option.

    A selected feature has a hard drive icon depicted next to it. A feature that is not selected has a red X depicted next to it. By default, if the prerequisite checker finds a software feature with no supporting hardware, the prerequisite checker automatically ignores the feature.

    To accept the default directory path to install managed system software, click Next. Else, click Change and browse to the directory where you want to install the managed system software, and click OK.

  10. Click Next on the Custom Setup dialog box to accept the selected software features for installation.
    • NOTE: You can cancel the installation process by clicking Cancel. The installation rolls back the changes that you made. If you click Cancel after a certain point in the installation process, the installation may not roll back properly, leaving the system with an incomplete installation.
    The Alert Messaging Type Selection dialog box is displayed.
  11. Select one of the following options from the Alert Messaging Type Selection dialog box.
    • Enhanced Message Format (Recommended)
    • Traditional Message Format
    The Ready to Install the Program dialog box is displayed.
  12. Click Install to install the selected software features. The Installing Server Administrator screen is displayed and provides the status and progress of the software features being installed. After the selected features are installed, the Install Wizard Completed dialog box is displayed with the following message. Dell iDRAC is an out-of-band management system that allows system administrators to monitor and manage Dell PowerEdge Servers and other network equipment, remotely. Dell iDRAC works regardless of Power status and operating system functionality. For more information, visit http://pilot.search.dell.com/iDRAC.
  13. Click Finish to exit the Server Administrator installation. If you are prompted to reboot the system, select from the following reboot options to make the installed managed system software services available for use:
    • Yes, reboot my system now.
    • No, I will reboot my system later.
  • NOTE: If you have selected Remote Enablement during installation, an error message A provider, WinTunnel, has been registered in the Windows Management Instrumentation namespace ROOT\dcim\sysman to use the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests. is logged in Windows Event Log. You can safely ignore this message and continue with installation.

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