Before Installation

Please be sure to read this page before installing this product. [Security settings – Setting up the NEC ESMPRO User Group –] To make the applications run on the management PC have proper access rights, the NEC ESMPRO User Group is needed. The NEC ESMPRO User Group name should be determined during the installation. The Manager setup names it "Administrators" by default. If you want to specify another user group name, you must create it before installing the NEC ESMPRO Manager and specify the group name during installation. The NEC ESMPRO User Group is case sensitive. Also, to make this security feature function effectively, please install the NEC ESMPRO Manager on a hard drive formatted with NTFS.
| When you create the NEC ESMPRO User Group as a global group, make sure that there is no local group having the same name. Also, when you install the NEC ESMPRO Manager on a Backup Domain Controller, you must create it as a global group.
[Confirming the disk space required for operation] Prepare sufficient free space in the directory you specified at installation. By default, the installation directory is "\Program Files\ESMPRO" on the system drive. The following files are added at operation. Please see them before you calculate the required disk space.
• | Managed server About 10KB of disk space is required per managed server. Moreover, when the IPMI information is collected, maximum of 60KB of disk space is required.
• | Alert About 1KB of disk space is required per alert.
[About setting access permissions] When installing the NEC ESMPRO Manager in an already existing directory, the NEC ESMPRO Manager will not operate unless the access permissions required for the NEC ESMPRO Manager operation have been set. When installing the NEC ESMPRO Manager in a directory that does not exist, the following access permissions are set by the installer:
| Administrators | Full Control(All)(All)
| Everyone | Read(RX)(RX)
| SYSTEM | Full Control(All)(All)
If you specified a user group other than the default (Administrators) as the NEC ESMPRO User Group at the installation, Full Control access permissions will be set for it. [About remote installation of NEC ESMPRO Manager] When installation of the NEC ESMPRO Manager completes, you need to reboot the system. Careful attention is needed to install the program in the environment where reboot cannot be performed from the Start menu, such as on Remote Desktop of Windows XP Professional.
| The operating system can be restarted by running the following command at Command Prompt: Ex. ) When you want to restart the system immediately: shutdown -r -t 0
[Installation for multisession terminal server access] Perform the following operation to install the NEC ESMPRO Manager for multisession Terminal Server access:
• | For Windows Server 2003/Windows Server 2008 Use [Add New Programs] from [Add or Remove Programs] in [Control Panel].
• | For Windows Server 2008 Use [Install Application on Terminal Server] in [Control Panel].
• | For Windows Server 2008 R2 Use [Install Application on Remote Desktop Server] in [Control Panel].
| If you do not follow the procedure above, a message indicating the occurrence of the error during the setup is displayed and the setup stops.
[If an older version of NEC ESMPRO Manager has been already installed]
• | If NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver. 4.1 or later has been already installed, you can update it to this version. If any version other than the above has been installed, uninstall it before installation.
• | Note that if you perform update installation from NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver. 5.0 or prior with the Web Component installed, the Web Component will be uninstalled at the update installation.
• | Note that "BMC Remote Control Tool" for out-of-band management included in the NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver. 4.43 will be removed and cannot be accessed if you upgrade your NEC ESMPRO Manager to this version.
[About cluster systems] Because this version of the NEC ESMPRO Manager does not support cluster systems, taking over the data at a failover is not available. The environment already configured as a cluster system with older version can not be updated with this version of the NEC ESMPRO Manager. [If DianaScope Manager has been installed] If DianaScope Manager has been installed, you can update it to this version. The information registered to DianaScope Manager will be inherited. [To use the HP OpenView Integration] If you use HP OpenView Integration, install HP OpenView Network Node Manager before installing the NEC ESMPRO Manager. The HP OpenView Integration does not support Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 and later. [About sample of Script Component] When you changed a sample of the Script Component and saved it as the original file name, change the file name before performing update installation. If you perform update installation without doing that, the sample will be overwritten and the changes might be initialized. [If NEC MWA has been installed] If MWA has been installed, you cannot install NEC ESMPRO Manager. Please uninstall MWA. [If Tomcat has been installed] If Tomcat uses port number 8080 and started service, stop or disable the service. You can change the port number that NEC ESMPRO Manager uses after installation.