To install the server:
- Right-click and Extract the server software.
- From the extracted root folder, copy
EnterpriseServerInstallKey.ini
to C:\Windows
.
Note: Optionally, the product key may be populated manually in Step 8.
- Go to
Security Management Server\x64
and then double-click setup.exe.
- Select the language and then click OK.
- If any missing requirements are detected, click Install. Otherwise, go to Step 6.
- Click Next.
- Review the End User License Agreement (EULA). At the end of the EULA menu, select I accept the terms in the license agreement, and then click Next.
- Click Next.
Note: The product key is autopopulated (Step 2).
- Verify Back end Install (Full Dell Security Management Server Installation) is selected and then click Next.
- Optionally, Change the install directory and then click Next.
- If the UAC Enabled prompt appears:
- Click Yes to disable UAC.
- Reboot the server.
- Go to Step 3.
If the UAC Enabled prompt does not appear, go to Step 12.
Note: Clicking No stops setup to allow UAC to be disabled manually in Windows.
- Optionally, Change the server configuration file backup location from the default and then click Next.
- Select either:
- Import an existing certificate and then go to Step 14.
- Create a self-signed certificate and import it to key store and then go to Step 15.
Note: This certificate is used to securely communicate data from the endpoint software to the server.
- Browse to the path of the certificate to import and populate the Password of the certificate. Once finished, click Next. Go to Step 16.
- In the Set up a Certificate Authority (CA) menu:
- Confirm the Fully-qualified Computer Name.
- Populate the Organization.
- Populate the Organizational Unit.
- Populate the City.
- Populate the State.
- Populate the Country as a two-letter abbreviation.
- Click Next and then go to Step 16.
Note: The examples that are used in the screenshot will differ in your environment.
- Select either:
- Import an existing certificate and then go to Step 17.
- Create a self-signed certificate and import it to key store and then go to Step 18.
Note: This certificate is used for SSOS (Dell Encryption Enterprise for Server, formerly known as Dell Data Protection | Server Encryption).
- Browse to the path of the certificate to import and populate the Password of the certificate. Once finished, click Next. Go to Step 19.
Note: The certificate path and name will differ in your environment.
- In the Set up a Certificate Authority (CA) menu:
- Confirm the Fully-qualified Computer Name.
- Populate the Organization.
- Populate the Organizational Unit.
- Populate the City.
- Populate the State.
- Populate the Country as a two-letter abbreviation.
- Click Next and then go to Step 19.
Note: All fields that are populated in the example above may differ in your environment.
- In the Back End Server Install Setup menu:
- Optionally, click Edit Hostnames go to Step 20.
- Optionally, click Edit Ports and go to Step 21.
- Optionally, check Works with Front End and then populate the Front End Security Server hostname and Port.
- Click Next and go to Step 22.
- If Edit Hostnames was clicked (Step 19), optionally, change hostnames and then click OK to return to Step 19.
Note:
- The hostname that is used must match the server name that is referenced in the certificate (Step 13).
- The hostnames in the screenshot examples will differ in your environment.
- If Edit Ports was clicked (Step 19), optionally, change ports, click OK, and return to Step 19.
Note:
- It is highly recommended to only change ports when there is a conflict in your environment.
- Due to the complexity of the software, ports can only be modified during the installation process.
- In the Database Server and Install-time Credentials menu:
- Populate a Database Server and, optionally, an Instance Name.
- Optionally, populate a Port.
- Select either Windows authentication or SQL server authentication.
- If SQL server authentication was selected, populate a Login ID and Password.
- Populate the database catalog name.
- Click Next.
Note:
- If a port is not specified, the default SQL Server port of 1433 is used.
- Install-time credentials require the account that is chosen to have the sysadmin role assigned in SQL Server. For more information, reference How to Configure SQL for Dell Security Management Server / Dell Data Protection Enterprise Edition Server.
- If a database server and authentication is populated, but a database catalog name is given that does not exist, the Dell Enterprise Server installer will prompt to create that database for you. Click Yes at the prompt to create the database, or No to return to Step 22.
- The database server and database catalog will differ in your environment.
- Populate a Username and Password for the service account Dell services will use to access SQL and then click Next.
- Click Install.
- Click Finish.