Release Notes

– 14th generation PowerEdge servers
– Additional models of networking, storage, and disk backup devices
– VxRail and XC converged infrastructure
• Enhancements:
– Increase in the time interval of the Alert Ignore Action to ignore duplicate alerts to a maximum of 24 hours.
– Ability to save the purged alerts after the maximum size of alerts log is reached.
– More information in both inventory and hard drive information report to identify if a hard drive is self-encryption capable or
Self-Encrypting Drive (SED).
– Enabling OpenManage Essentials to be used in data centers where the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) ping is
blocked.
– Enabling the device type-based discovery in the guided wizard.
– Enabling rediscovery of server or chassis by conguring the static IPv4 address during the conguration deployment task.
– Enabling support of Programmable MUX (PMUX) mode for VLAN conguration and VLAN deployment features on IOAs.
– Capability to export the discovery ranges.
– Ability to view the virtual I/O pool size of the I/O identity types during the creation of a virtual I/O pool.
– Capability to purge older task execution history records when the limit is exceeded.
– New capabilities and enhancements on the REST interface.
NOTE: For a complete list of supported device models, see the Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials Version 2.3 Support
Matrix
at dell.com/OpenManageManuals.
Known Issues
System Updates
NOTE: OpenManage Essentials do not support the software update task on the management station. This is because the
Software Update task is interrupted and the nal results of the update are not known. You can perform software updates
using the other Dell tools.
Before creating an update task for noncompliant systems, it is recommended that you update to the latest catalog from ftp.dell.com
by clicking the Get the latest button under the System Update tab. Make sure that you have internet connectivity to download the
latest catalog.
Issue 1:
Description: When performing the system update task as a sudo user on a target that does not have OMSA installed, the Scheduled
F/W & Driver Inventory task fails with the sudo requires password error.[48587]
Resolution: Edit the sudoers le using the visudo command, and add the following:
• For target systems running a 32-bit operating system:
– Cmnd_Alias OMEUPDATE = /bin/tar,/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/omexec, /tmp/
LinuxPreInstallPackage/runbada,/tmp/LinuxPreInstallPackage/omexec, /tmp/invcol.bin
<sudo_username> ALL=OMEUPDATE,NOPASSWD:OMEUPDATE
• For target systems running a 64-bit operating system:
– Cmnd_Alias OMEUPDATE = /bin/tar,/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/omexec, /tmp/
LinuxPreInstallPackage64/runbada,/tmp/LinuxPreInstallPackage64/omexec, /tmp/
invcol64.bin <sudo_username> ALL=OMEUPDATE,NOPASSWD:OMEUPDATE
Issue 2:
Description: Simultaneously running the OMSA deployment task and in-band system update task on the same server is not
supported. [44598]
Issue 3:
Description: In rare cases, inapplicable package may be listed in the compliance report, but the updates are not applied to the target
node if the package is not applicable.
Issue 4:
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