Release Notes

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ISSUES FOR THE BMC MANAGEMENT UTILITY

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* After IPMI Shell is installed, if you open a command prompt and

type "ipmish" without being in the

"C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\bmc" directory, you will receive an

error stating that the command could not be found. This is because

by default, the IPMISH directory is not added to the system path.

You must either manually add the system path to the command line,

or go to the specified directory before running the IPMISH

application.

* Microsoft SAC does not implement hardware control flow. Therefore,

when console redirection is enabled with EMS SAC, you will see

corrupted data. As SAC does not implement hardware flow control,

you will not be able to effectively use SOL Proxy to activate

console redirection to EMS SAC.

* While performing console redirection through SOL Proxy, you may see

a few garbled characters. This can occur while the SOL Proxy

refreshes the screen.

You can verify your redirected output by using the same telnet

client over the serial port to ensure that your telnet client

supports console redirection features. If you see the same garbled

text through the serial port, you can use another telnet client for

better performance.

* If you issue the graceful shutdown command using SOL Proxy option 4

"Reboot and Activate Console Redirection" on a system running

Microsoft Windows 2000 with an ACPI-compliant BIOS, Windows

performs an emergency shutdown instead of a graceful shutdown.

Windows does not send WM_QUERYENDSESSION and WM_ENDSESSION messages

to the running programs; therefore, the programs cannot notify the

user to save data and quit gracefully. This could result in data

corruption or data loss. See the following link for more

information:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297150

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