Release Notes

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Additional Software Required to Run Some Features of Essentials

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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.

NOTE: This CLI software is part of the OpenManage Essentials installer media and can be installed from the prerequisites

window.

Installation

(A) First-time Installation of OpenManage Essentials 1.1

See the Dell OpenManage Essentials Version 1.1 User's Guide" for instructions on setting up OpenManage Essentials for the

first time on a system.

(B) Upgrade from IT Assistant 8.x to OpenManage Essentials 1.0.1, and then to OpenManage Essentials 1.1.

ITAssistant 8.x can be upgraded to Essentials 1.0.1. IT Assistant user data will be consumed during upgrade. After the

upgrade IT Assistant is removed from the system.

then to OpenManage Essentials 1.1.

The followings data/tasks are not migrated during the upgrade to Essentials:

1) System Update: Essentials provides new functionality on the System Update (Software Repository), and OpenManage

Server Administrator deployment so your existing packages and tasks in ITA are not migrated to Essentials after upgrade.

You have to reimport those packages and re-create those tasks.

2) Performance and Power Monitoring Tasks: OpenManage Essentials 1.0.1 does not provide Performance and Power

monitoring.

NOTE: If you used the CIM protocol before an upgrade, then after an upgrade, it is important to verify the CIM credentials.

CIM credentials should be qualified with a domain or a local host if no trusted domain is configured (for example,

domain\administrator or local host\administrator). You can view the CIM credentials by editing the imported discovery

ranges in the "CIM Configuration Pane." If the CIM credentials are not qualified with a domain or local host, devices are not

discovered through the CIM protocol.

Open Issues and Resolutions

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System Updates

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NOTE: OpenManage Essentials does not support the software update task on the management station. This is because the

Software Update task is interrupted and the final results of the update are not known. You can perform software updates

using the other Dell Tools.

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In rare cases, inapplicable package may be listed in the compliance report but the updates are not applied to target

node if the package is not applicable.