Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials Version 2.5 Release Notes 1 September 2019 Rev.
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1 Topics: • Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials Version 2.5 Release Notes Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials Version 2.5 Release Notes This document describes the new features, enhancements, and known issues in Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials Version 2.5. Release type and definition Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials provides a central point of access to monitor and manage systems on a local area network (LAN).
○ Configuration compliance and remediation ○ Configuring VLANs on MX7000 chassis by using the blade server template deployment feature ● Support for the following devices: ○ Latest 14th generation PowerEdge servers including new blade servers of MX7000 chassis ○ PowerEdge MX7000 modular enclosure ○ VxFlex Ready Nodes For a complete list of supported device models, see the Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials Support Matrix at Dell.com/ OpenManageManuals.
● The Microsoft Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption feature is enabled. ● The TPM feature is set (using BIOS) to ON with Preboot Measurement. For information about TPM security settings, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Online Help or the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator User's Guide available at Dell.com/OpenManageManuals and on the appropriate media that are supplied by Dell. For software updates for BIOS to function, perform the following steps: 1.
Resolution: Restart the OMSA shared services on target server, or discover iDRAC using out-of-band method and update the firmware. Alternatively, change the SELinux settings value to “Permissive” from “Enforcing” on target server, and perform the inventory again. The SELinux config file is available at /etc/selinux/config. Issue 16: Description: In OpenManage Essentials 2.
Issue 2: Description: After installing Essentials on a database retained from an earlier Essentials installation, the following are unsuccessful: ● ● ● ● Discovery/Inventory Remote task/Scheduled tasks Proxy connection Email alert action [40085] Resolution: The following must be provided after the Essentials installation: ● ● ● ● ● Protocol-specific credentials for discovery and inventory. Credentials for remote/scheduled tasks. Proxy credentials. Email alert action credentials.
Issue 1: Description: After upgrading from OpenManage Essentials version 2.1 to version 2.2, duplication of the PowerVault MD Series storage arrays is observed in the device tree. [68438] Resolution: To eliminate the duplicate entries, ensure that you delete and rediscover the PowerVault MD Series storage arrays. Issue 2: Description: After upgrading from OpenManage Essentials version 1.1.1 to 2.2, or 1.1.1 to 1.2 to 1.3 to 2.0 to 2.0.1 to 2.1 to 2.
OpenManage Essentials to operate properly. As a general rule, ensure that your web server is configured for a minimum of 50 active connections. Issue 4: Description: OpenManage Essentials does not launch when the IP address of the remote database is changed. [31801] Resolution: Reinstall OpenManage Essentials and target the existing remote database with the new IP address.
Description: Dell EMC EqualLogic FS7500 NAS device discovered using the management member IP is displayed as Unknown in the device tree. [39618] Resolution: Discover the Dell EMC EqualLogic FS7500 NAS device using the group manager IP. Issue 12: Description: If a PowerEdge VRTX chassis is discovered using SNMP protocol and NetBIOS name resolution setting, the instrumentation (NetBIOS) name is not resolved.
Description: If you are managing a Dell EMC storage array, enter the IP address for only one of the storage processors (that is, either SPA or SPB, and not both) in the discovery range. The storage processors are redundant and return the same inventory data to OpenManage Essentials. If you enter both SPs in the discovery range, only one SP will be displayed in the device tree.
Description: When you create a custom group, you have the ability to select a pre-defined device search query or the ability to select individual devices and groups to form your newly created custom group. If you select a device search query as your basis for your custom group content and you subsequently decide to modify the device search query, the results of the modified device search query is not reflected in the custom group.
● 1 = Matches device names based on the name resolution method set in the UI. ● 2 = Matches device names based on the name resolution method set in the UI, but also uses the alternate name if it gives a more optimal match. Setting the NAME_CORRELATION_MODE to 2 helps when you do not want a preferred name resolution method for correlation.
Issue 50: Description: When a server is discovered with the SNMP protocol, the RAC name of the server is not displayed in the device tree, portals, and wizards. [64443] Resolution: Ensure that the iDRAC of the server is discovered with the WS-Man protocol. Otherwise, the system name is displayed in the device tree, portals, and wizards instead of the RAC name.
Issue 64: Description: If the mode of the IOAs in a chassis is changed from Standalone or VLT to PMUX, the IOAs of a chassis are not discovered when using the Chassis (CMC) Discovery — All Components filter. [65026] Resolution: Do one of the following: ● Update the SNMP Community string of the IOA in the corresponding CMC console. ● Discover the IOAs separately in OpenManage Essentials.
Resolution: Avoid using the system path variables with % sign and use the full absolute path to the executable file. Issue 11: Description: SNMPv3 traps are received as "Unknown" alerts with severity for following CMC firmware versions: 5.20/5.21 (M1000E), 1.30/1.32 (FX2/FX2S), 2.20/2.22 (VRTX). Remote tasks ● OpenManage Essentials supports iDRAC Service Module (iSM) deployment on servers running Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS).
● If you have a Windows Firewall configured on the management station or the managed system, make the following configuration changes to enable remote Server Administrator CLI and software updates to work successfully. Management Station: 1. Open TCP port 135. 2. Add the application omremote.exe (located in Essentials\bin) to the Firewall exception list.
Issue 15: Description: While creating a Generic Command Line task, the Application requires interaction with desktop check box does not work and the executable window is not visible when Essentials is installed on the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 system. The task runs the executable in the background. If Windows requires input, the task may hang and you may need to kill the process for the task to continue.
Issue 27: Description: Users can select the type of OpenManage Server Administrator packages depending on whether they want to perform an upgrade (major or minor) or clean install of OpenManage Server Administrator using OpenManage Essentials. ● Use .msi package for clean install /major upgrade/minor upgrade of OpenManage Server Administrator ● Use .msp package for minor upgrade ● Use .
to update OpenManage Server Administrator, see OpenManage Server Administrator User’s Guide at dell.com/support/ manuals. Resolution: While updating major versions of OpenManage Server Administrator make sure that the MSI package is used. Issue 36: Description: The Deploy Server Administrator task runs forever. Resolution: Make sure that the install arguments are valid for Deploy Server Administrator task.
Description: Deploying OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) as a sudo user does not work on a system running SLES 11. Resolution: Ensure that the directory for the sudo user exists in the /home directory on SLES 11, and then deploy OMSA. If the directory does not exist under /home, create the sudo user using the useradd –m option. The –m option ensures that the directory for the sudo user is created in /home directory.
Resolution: Avoid using non-English characters in the template name. If the template name has non-English characters, then edit the template name in the edit wizard to remove them. Issue 8: Description: Compliance report is not generated when a configuration baseline is associated with more than 500 devices and is timed out after an interval of 30 minutes. [81748] Resolution: As a workaround, associate the baseline with 500 devices at a time.
Issue 20: Description: When an MX7000 chassis is configured with a non-default web server port, the chassis configuration template creation and deployment will fail in OpenManage Essentials version 2.5. [142466] Resolution: Configure the MX7000 chassis with default web server port and create the chassis configuration template and redeploy the template. Issue 21: Description: For 14 th generation of PowerEdge servers with iDRAC firmware versions 3.30.30.
Description: OpenManage Essentials Command Line Interface (CLI) functionality will not work when a non-default Console Launch port is used for installing OpenManage Essentials. If you want to use the CLI functionality, make sure that the default Console Launch port 2607 is used during installation. Issue 2: Description: OpenManage Essentials CLI does not support deleting nested custom groups. While deleting a child custom group using CLI, OpenManage Essentials deletes the parent custom group as well.
Description: Dell EMC Force10 devices display MAC address for ports that are not configured under NIC Information instead of N/A. Issue 10: Description: OpenManage Essentials may not display the correct warranty date and time of the device. It displays the warranty date and time based on: ● The warranty start time. ● The location of the managed server or the request originator.
BGP4-MIB (IETF_BGP4.
● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● MIB, FA-EXT-MIB FASTPATH-BOXSERVICES-PRIVATE-MIB, FASTPATH-AUTHENTICATION-MANAGER-MIB, FASTPATH-CAPTIVE-PORTAL-MIB, FASTPATH-PORTSECURITY-PRIVATE-MIB, FASTPATH-INVENTORY-MIB, FASTPATH-LOGGING-MIB, FASTPATH-QOS-ACL-MIB, BGP4-MIB, IEEE8021-AS-MIB, DNOS-BGP-MIB, DNOS-MMRP-MIB, DNOS-MRP-MIB, DNOS-MSRP-MIB, DNOS-MVRP-MIB, DNOS-BOXSERVICES-PRIVATE-MIB, DNOS-AUTHENTICATION-MANAGER-MIB, DNOS-CAPTIVE-PORTAL-MIB, DNOS-PORTSECURITY-PRIVATE-MIB, DNOS-INVENTORY-MIB, DNOS-LOGGING-MIB, DNOS-QOS-ACL-MIB
● Remove MIB A. Category Name A is not removed as it is used by MIB B traps. If you remove B, category A will still be present. Issue 4: Description: All the received traps (MIB imported trap definitions) in OpenManage Essentials are removed when you remove a specific MIB using the MIB Import Utility. Example: Import a device A MIB having some traps definitions. After importing, assume OpenManage Essentials receives 10 traps from device A.
● If the above command works, enable the logs using the dconfig.ini file and collect the logs from the specified folder location. Issue: Description: OpenManage Essentials services do not start automatically on the OME host if the Windows license is activated after a system reboot. Resolution: If Windows is not activated, activate the Windows license, run Windows update and reboot the system. On inactivated systems, OpenManage Essentials services will not start up automatically.
Limitations ● The server configuration template created using OpenManage Essentials may not include some of the RAID encryption attributes that are available in the configuration template that is generated using the WinRM and RACADM commands. [47566] ● During upgrade of SupportAssist, you must uninstall Dell System E-Support Tool (DSET) version 3.3 to continue. Upgrade from DSET version 3.3 to version 3.4.1 is not possible.
● Database: SQL Server Express ● Database location: Local ● Database size: 2 GB Large (up to 2000 Managed Systems): ● ● ● ● ● ● Processor: 8 cores (1.8 GHz minimum) Memory (RAM): 8 GB Disk Space: at least 10 GB Database: SQL Server Enterprise or Standard Database location: Supports Remote SQL installation Database size: 6 GB Large (up to 5500 Managed Systems): ● ● ● ● ● ● Processor: 8 cores (1.
NOTE: The Wow64 component is required to run on a 64-bit operating system. NOTE: OpenManage Essentials is also supported on virtual machines. NOTE: Ensure that KB2919355 update is installed on Windows 2012 R2 systems to run OpenManage Essentials 2.5. To install KB2919355 update manually, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article ID 2919355 at www.support.microsoft.com. Database-Microsoft SQL Server–Local or Remote NOTE: Only case-insensitive instance of SQL Server is supported.
● Direct migration from IT Assistant to OpenManage Essentials version 2.5 is not supported. However, you can migrate IT Assistant to an earlier version of OpenManage Essentials (version 1.3), and then upgrade to OpenManage Essentials version 2.5. ● For information about migrating IT Assistant to an earlier version of OpenManage Essentials, see the appropriate Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials User's Guide at https://www.dell.
