Important information

Important Information 13
For detailed instructions on installing the additional R2 components, see the
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard, Enterprise, and Web x86
Editions with SP2 for Dell PowerEdge Systems Installation and Setup Guide
located on the User Guides website at www.dell.com/ostechsheets.
When installing the Hardware Management component on a system that has
a BMC, the following message may appear:
An IPMI device has been registered within the system
BIOS; all 3rd party IPMI drivers must be removed from
the system prior to installation in order to prevent
system instability; if all 3rd party drivers have been
removed or you wish to ignore this risk press ‘OK’
otherwise press ‘Cancel’.
Before proceeding, Dell recommended that you uninstall all third-party
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) drivers.
NOTE: Dell OpenManage™ 4.5.x requires the Dell IPMI driver and cannot use the
R2 IPMI driver. If you are using Dell OpenManage 4.5.x to manage your eighth
generation PowerEdge systems, Dell strongly recommends that you do not install
the R2 IPMI driver on those systems. For more information on the impact of the
R2 IPMI driver on the Dell OpenManage suite and possible limitations of
Dell OpenManage, see the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
After the Hardware Management component is installed, manually install the
IPMI device driver using the following commands (if required): Rundll32
ipmisetp.dll, AddTheDevice
The IPMI device can be viewed in Device Manager under System Devices
under the entry Microsoft Generic IPMI Compliant Device.
For more information about the impact of the R2 IPMI driver on the
Dell OpenManage suite and possible limitations of Dell OpenManage, see the
Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
The Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard and Enterprise x86 Editions With
SP2 Hardware Management component and IPMI driver only supports
PowerEdge systems with BMCs that support IPMI versions 1.5 and later.
PowerEdge systems with BMCs that support IPMI version 1.0 are not
supported by Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard and Enterprise x86 Editions
With SP2 IPMI driver. These systems can continue to use the Dell
OpenManage IPMI driver.