Release Notes

 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. Though, any selection made here is not saved, This has been made viewable so that you know all the
targets associated with the task.
 Sometimes when editing the remote task the target selection is not seen. To see the targets, cancel or close the edit
window and re-edit the task to see the target selection.
 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 .exe package for major/minor upgrade
 OpenManage Server Administrator deployment on XEN server:
OpenManage Server Administrator cannot be deployed on XEN server from OpenManage Essentials. OpenManage Server
Administrator needs to be installed manually on the managed node. Dell OpenManage is available for XenServer as a
Supplemental Pack. The supplemental pack can be downloaded from support.dell.com
 OpenManage Server Administrator deployment on ESXi server:
OMSA cannot be deployed on ESXi server using OpenManage Essentials. For more information, see the whitepaper How
to setup and configure ESXi 5 for use in OpenManage Essentials and the video Installing OpenManage Server
Administrator on ESXi4 with OpenManage Essentials at delltechcenter.com.
 To Install OpenManage Server Administrator on 64 bit Linux System, e install below mentioned 32 bit rpms and their
dependent packages before running OpenManage Server Administrator Deploy task from OpenManage Essentials.
 compat-libstdc++-33.i686
 libxml2.i686
 pam.i686
 glibc.i686
 zlib.i686
 libgcc.i686
 In task device selection, device capabilities are not taken into account. Hence, if the target node is not capable of
running the task, the task might fail.
 Issue:
While creating an OpenManage Server Administrator update deployment task; the task may stay “In-progress” state
for 6 hours. This occurs in certain scenarios where OpenManage Server Administrator was not properly uninstalled
prior to running the update deployment task. This may also occur is the task was interrupted during the deployment
process.
Resolution:
Before running the update deployment task, make sure that OpenManage Server Administrator is uninstalled from the
target server and then create and OpenManage Server Administrator deployment task.