Release Notes

• ASM-7934—Resolved an issue where a failed server in a cluster deployment prevented the storage DRS configuration from
completing until all servers were deployed successfully.
Known Issues
This section provides information about open issues and resolutions with this release of Active System Manager 8.3.1.
• Issue: ASM-1469: The puppet agent fails to install on CentOS v6.4. The CentOS v6.4 cannot mount the appliance's CIFS share to
download the rpm.
Description: The samba-client must be installed on the Linux VM for the mount to work, but it is not installed. In RHEL 6.5, samba-
client is installed by default but not on CentOS v6.4.
Resolution/Workaround: The problem occurs when you use the minimal ISO. It does not contain the samba-client. You must ensure
that the full ISOs are used.
• Issue: ASM-1674: Invalid password error when trying to create a user, credential, or service template component.
Description: Known issue when using Firefox Remember Password feature. If Firefox detects that you type in a value that matches
the Remember password it passes a blank value rather than the typed-in value. So the second time you try to type the same password
value for the same type of entity in ASM, if the password you enter matches the previously used value for that type of entity then the
system is passed a blank value for the password.
Resolution/Workaround: Add an exception to Firefox to not save passwords for ASM URL. Perform the following steps:
1. Start Firefox.
2. Go to Tools > Options.
3. Click the Security tab.
4. If you already have saved passwords for your ASM appliance, click the Save Passwords button, select your ASM Appliance URL,
and click Remove, then click Close.
5. Exit out of the Firefox options.
6. The next time you log in to ASM and enter a password for one of these fields, when prompted to the Remember passwords for
the site click the drop-down arrow and click 'Never Remember Passwords for This Site'.
NOTE:
This is a browser/system specific setting, so if multiple users are using your ASM appliance all users must
ensure to disable Remember Password for ASM Appliance URL.
• Issue: ASM-1894: ASM is unable to distinguish volumes with the same names in different Dell Compellent folders.
Description: ASM cannot distinguish volumes with a same name in different folder in a Dell Compellent inventory.
Resolution/Workaround: Ensure that you provide unique names for volumes used by ASM in your Dell Compellent inventory.
• Issue: ASM-2144: Server with bare hard drive fails to get HddSeq set properly.
Description: If you select SD boot and the server has a bare hard drive (not connected through a RAID controller) the HddSeq may
fail to get set properly, Leaving the bare hard drive at the top of the list. The server may boot off the bare hard drive instead of the SD
card where the operating system was installed.
Resolution/Workaround: None
• Issue: ASM-2599: Issue with Configure Resources when IOM Firmware is out-of-date with minimum firmware requirements.
Description: The following error message is displayed while configuring resources when a firmware running on the IO Module does
not meet the minimum requirements. If the IOM firmware is not within the compatibility matrix minimum firmware, the following error
is displayed when it attempts to show the discovered resources: An Unexpected error has occurred on the system. Please try again
later.
Resolution/Workaround: You must update the I/O module firmware and retry initial discovery and configuration of the chassis.
• Issue: ASM-2951: Error message is displayed during firmware update on C series.
Description: While performing firmware update on C series servers, the health status of the C series switch changes to <gray> and
the following error message is displayed:
Unknown error querying IPMI on host 172.31.32.142: Could not retrieve IPMI status: ipmi_sensor_read: internal IPMI error.
Resolution/Workaround: This is an expected behavior because connection is not established with the BMC for a few seconds when
you initiate firmware update operation, and the firmware update continues after the connectivity is established with BMC.
• Issue: ASM-3133: ASM performs the discovery operation on the PowerEdge FX2 chassis after you update the CMC firmware.
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Active System Manager Release 8.3.1 Release Notes