Release Notes

○ 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.
● Enhancements:
○ Enhanced view to display catalog baselines associated to the custom device groups
Known issues
System updates
NOTE: OpenManage Essentials does not support the software update task on the management station. This is because the
task is interrupted and the final results of the update are not known. You can perform software updates by using other Dell
EMC tools.
Before creating an update task for noncompliant systems, Dell EMC recommends that you update to the latest catalog from
downloads.dell.com. Ensure 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:
○ 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:
Description: Intel PCI-E driver package information for a server that is seen in OpenManage Essentials might be different than
the driver package information seen in SUU. Package name, Component name, Current Version, and Repository Version might
be different. [473495]
Issue 5:
Description: Broadcom NetXtreme driver package information for a server that is seen in OpenManage Essentials might be
different than the driver package information seen in SUU. Package name, Component name, Current Version, and Repository
Version might be different. [473493]
Issue 6:
Description: For systems with a Trusted Computing Group (TCG) 1.2-compliant Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip,
software updates for the BIOS fail if all of the following are true:
5