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After a Network Discovery task is run in which the system described above is targeted, a second resource
entry is created for that system.
Ideally, there should only be one resource for this system. However, the Altiris Agent does not provide
enough information about the system for DMC to detect the duplicate devices thus creating the situation
described above.
Issue 68: Inventory for Brocade Switches shows incorrect details.
When devices are discovered on subnets different from that of the DMC console, the MAC address of the
router is returned as the MAC address of the devices.
DMC uses ARP to gather the MAC addresses during Network Discovery and the router returns its own MAC
address to the ARP request when the device is on a different subnet.
Issue 69: The Contact Information table in Resource Manager -> Hardware Summary is not displayed for
ESXi machines.
Reports
Issue 70: PowerConnect M6220, M6348, M8024 and 8024F may not show up in the Ethernet switch report.
At the time of this Dell Management Console release, the shipping version of the firmware for these
switches was not providing the information needed to display them in this report. This is being addressed
in newer firmware releases for the individual switches.
Issue 71: Removed Altiris Agent Version report under Dell Reports folder. Use reports located under
Notification Server>Agent reports folder.
Tasks
Issue 72: To run IPMI-related tasks against IPMI-capable devices, such as Dell servers, you must enable the
IPMI protocol to discover these devices. The discovery task for IPMI devices should include the IP
Addresses that support the IPMI protocol. For Dell servers, these are the IP Addresses by which the DRAC
and/or BMC communicate.
Issue 73: On managed systems running Windows, if you want to set the front panel LCD text to a multi-
word text that contains spaces, use the Command Line Builder task or the BIOS Configuration task. Also
enclose the text in quotes. For example: PowerEdge 2950.
Issue 74: On managed systems running Linux, you cannot set the front panel LCD text to a string with
embedded spaces using the Command Line Builder or BIOS configuration tasks. PowerEdge 2950 is not a
valid setting for LCD text on Linux systems.
Managed systems running Linux have additional restrictions on custom text: some special characters like
“&” and “(“ cannot be used in the custom text for the above tasks.
Issue 75: In the Associate Dell Devices task, in Target Selection, (Apply to> Computers,) if you choose the
filter (Add Rule): exclude computers not in> Group> Computers, then it only displays (managed) systems
that have the Altiris agent installed on them.
To select unmanaged computers, choose the following filter: exclude computers not in> Computer list>
Computers.
Issue 76: Exporting a task or policy to an external USB device does not release the device handle.
To work around this issue, export the task or policy to a local drive and copy the exported files to the
external USB device.