Dell OpenManage Essentials Version 1.
Dell OpenManage Essentials provides a central point of access to monitor and manage systems on a local area network (LAN). By allowing an administrator a comprehensive view across the enterprise, Essentials can increase system uptime, reduce repetitive tasks, and prevent interruption in critical business operations. What’s New in OME 1.1? - Support for Dell clients, PDU, UPS, and Dell Force10 switches. CLI support for automation of server discovery and grouping. Schedule views for tasks.
Editions, the maximum SQL Server memory must be configured within SQL Server to prevent it from using the entire system memory. It is recommended that you use a maximum of 4GB for a 6 GB RAM configuration. For large number of managed systems, see OpenManage Essentials user’s Guide.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Additional Software Required to Run Some Features of Essentials ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Dell/EMC storage arrays inventory, ensure that your array is FLARE(R) version 19 or above. You must also install Navisphere(R) Secure CLI (version 19 or above) on your management station.
Intel PCI-E driver package information for a server seen in OpenManage Essentials might be different than driver package information seen in SUU. Package name, Component name, Current Version and Repository Version might be different.[473495] Broadcom NetXtreme driver package information for a Server seen in OpenManage Essentials might be different than driver package information seen in SUU. Package name, Component name, Current Version and Repository Version might be different.
Issue: A warning message “No Compliant updates found in selected repository” is displayed if you have created a bundle for updating iDRAC using Repository Manager Version 1.4. Resolution: Use FTP or the SUU DVD to update your iDRAC. Issue: Performing in-Band updates to Broadcom NIC firmware on ESX servers may intermittently see task as failed, even though the update was performed successfully. This is due to the wrong status message that is provided by the update package during execution.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Migration ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Following Tasks will not get migrated from ITA: Server Software Update Client Software Update IPMI Command Line Power Control Device (via ASF) Performance Management Import Dell Catalog Server Administrator Deployment for Windows Server Administrator Deployment for Linux While migrating tasks from IT Assistant to Open
2. 3. 4. Restart IIS server. Start “OmeDAService “, “OmeHostService“, “DSM Essentials Task Manager” and “DSM Essentials Network Monitor”, services. Launch the OME console. Issue: The Deploy Server Administrator task runs forever Resolution: Make sure install arguments are valid for Deploy Server Administrator task. For more information about Deploy Server Administrator task and install arguments refer to OpenManage Essential's user guide or to Deploy Server Administrator white paper at http://en.
NIC information is not displayed in the device details screen for Dell/EMC arrays. Use Navisphere Manager to view these details. 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.
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. You will have to delete the custom group and recreate it using the newly modified device search query group.
When a client system is discovered using WMI protocol, the “Processor Information” table is not displayed. However, some processor information can be obtained from the FRU table if OMCI is installed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Alerts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OpenManage Essentials can receive and process alerts from systems with an IPv4 address format.
Remote Server Administrator command line task may not respond for Server Administrator running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. To enable the successful functioning of remote Server Administrator CLI and software updates/deploy features, ensure the following (applicable to Microsoft® Windows® only) The managed system and the management station must be on the same domain or there should be a trust relationship between the two domains.
If the "Log On" account is missing the above user rights, the Essentials tasks fails to execute. To assign user rights to an account on the local computer: 1. From the "Start" menu, point to "Administrative Tools," and then click "Local Security Policy." 2. In the "Local Security Settings" dialog box, double-click "Local Policies", and then double-click "User Rights Assignment." 3. In the details pane, double-click "Adjust memory quotas for a Process." 4.
If you activate schedule for cloned sample tasks without adding targets, it may display a message for entering credentials for targets since schedule cannot be activated without valid targets. To avoid this message, add valid targets for the cloned task before activating the task schedule In view mode of the Task, you will be able to see the Task Targets. You will also be able to expand the tree to view sub-targets.
Issue: Creating a Remote Server command task with the command “omreport system alertlog” may take longer than expected to complete. This occurs if the alert logged on the target system is unusually large, the task may fail to complete. Resolution: Review the alert log on the system to determine if the log can be cleared. Issue: When Server Administrator deployment task is performed on more than 20 Linux targets, the task may fail.
To populate 'Modular enclosure reports' CMC should have firmware version 4.0 and above Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 will not let you add the Administrators and Users group to the OmeUsers and OmeAdministrators groups using computer management. If you want to add the Administrators and Users group use the command prompt or delete the Ome groups to have them reset.
Issue: OME shows power supply health as Normal when the redundant power supply has lost AC power source. Resolution This is the issue with Server Administrator version 6.x. To avoid this issue, please install/upgrade to Server Administrator version 7.0 or higher.
Use Dell troubleshooting tool (gets installed with Essentials) to verify the specific protocol test. Ensure services are working, and protocol specific ports are not blocked by firewall. Manually restart the services Microsoft Internet Explorer: Issue: Unable to open OpenManage Essentials using Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer displays certificate errors. Internet Explorer displays a message to approve the certificate.
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