Release Notes

What is supported
For a complete list of supported devices, operating systems, and web browsers, see the Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials
Version 2.4 Support Matrix at delltechcenter.com/ome or dell.com/OpenManageManuals.
New in this release
● Supports streaming functionality for the server configuration deployment and configuration compliance tasks.
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Support for the latest models of 14th generation PowerEdge servers and networking devices.
For a complete list of supported device models, see the Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials Support Matrix at dell.com/
openmanagemanuals.
● Ability to create and manage multiple firmware baselines by using the repository manager files.
● Support for associating custom device groups with a firmware baseline.
● Support for generating firmware compliance report of custom device groups and updating noncompliant devices based on a
compliance report.
● REST API enhancements:
○ To list and manage discovery ranges for the discovered devices.
○ To manage device groups, add and delete devices from the device groups.
○
To generate firmware compliance reports of device groups.
○ To generate configuration compliance reports of device groups.
○ To view additional inventory information such as controllers, physical drives, PSUs, and virtual drive-related information
displayed in OpenManage Essentials GUI.
For more information about integrating OpenManage Essentials using REST APIs, see the Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials
REST API Guide on the support site and Dell TechCenter.
● Enhancements:
○ Ability to view configuration compliance reports of device groups.
○ Ability to view the number of tasks being run.
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 final 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 file 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:
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