Initial Dell workstation setup example

Following the unpacking of the Dell Precision Workstation, interconnection of keyboard, mouse, display, Ethernet, and power (following Dell documentation), the system was powered on. The following steps were taken and recorded on June 3, 2008:

Pressed Enter at EULA screen.
Selected English (USA) as Language, and pressed Forward.
Clicked Yes, I agree on License Agreement, and pressed Forward.
Selected US English for Keyboard layout, and pressed Forward.
Set root password and confirm password fields to “niagara”. Pressed Forward.
Pressed Change Network Configuration, selected the eth0 device, and clicked Activate. (The Ethernet card was shipped deactivated).
Under the Firewall Configuration, clicked drop-down for Other Ports, and added ports 3011 and 80 for both TCP and UDP. Pressed Yes to override the existing firewall configuration.
Left SELinux at its default Enforcing setting. Pressed Forward.
Left Enable Kdump unchecked. Pressed Forward.
Set time zone to Eastern Time. Pressed Forward.
Under Date and Time, selected the Network Time Protocol tab and checked Enable Network Time. Pressed Forward.
The software update failed because the system could not detect an active network connection. Pressed Forward.
Under Create User:
- Set username = tridium
- Set Full Name = tridium
- Set password = niagara
- Set confirm password = niagara
- Pressed Forward.
Pressed Forward under Sound Card.
Pressed Finish under Additional CDs.
Entered tridium/niagara at login screen.
Rebooted the machine. This corrected the inactive network connection issue detected at step 12. The initial setup had failed to aquire a gateway for the network connection.
Attempted to load the self-extracting RPM Java plugin for Linux from java.com, however, the pre-installed Firefox (ver. 1.5.0.9) failed to detect the plugin link.

NOTE: The Red Hat workstation came preconfigured with an early version of Firefox that does not detect the Java plugin. The fix is to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox. This is recommended if the “Web Workbench” ( Workbench in a browser) will be run from the workstation.

Initial Dell workstation setup example

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