Dell OpenManage Essentials Version 1.
Release Notes OpenManage Essentials 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, OpenManage Essentials can increase system uptime, reduce repetitive tasks, and prevent interruption in critical business operations. Version 1.2 Release Date: July 2013 Previous Version 1.
Availability of storage and controller information in the device inventory for the following client systems: Dell OptiPlex, Dell Latitude, and Dell Precision. CLI support for discovery, inventory, status polling, and removal of devices from the device tree. CLI command for modifying and adding ranges to an existing Discovery Range Group.
For software updates for BIOS to function, perform the following steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. Disable the Microsoft Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption feature for information on disabling this feature. See the Microsoft documentation at "www.microsoft.com." Update the BIOS. Re-start the system. Re-enable the Microsoft Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption feature. You can use OpenManage Essentials to view the TPM information in the Device Details page.
Issue 12: Description When quota management is enabled on the management station and a user approaches the quota limit, system update tasks created by the user are not initiated. The Task Execution History Status displays the pause icon. [29773] Resolution Increase the quota assigned to the user and then re-run or recreate the system update task.
Issue 3: Description If using the prerequisites link, and SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 does not install on a specific operating system version and service pack, verify the SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 support matrix. You need Windows Server 2008 x86 (SP2) to install SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Issue 1: Description Migrating from ITA 8.9 or updating from OME 1.0.1 silent installation of the “Troubleshooting Tool” and “MIB Import” tool along with any other products selected in the auto run screen fails to install or upgrade on Windows 2008 SP2 32-bit and 64-bit. This occurs when OME asks for system reboot during critical pre-requisite installation. Resolution Manually install these components from their respective installers located in the Windows folder where OME is extracted to.
Issue 6: Description After upgrading OpenManage Essentials from version 1.1 to 1.2, the Microsoft Hyper-V servers are not grouped under Microsoft Virtualization Servers in the Devices portal's device tree. [31770] Resolution The Microsoft Hyper-V servers are automatically grouped under Microsoft Virtualization Servers on the next discovery or inventory, if scheduled. You can also select "Perform Inventory Now" on the respective discovery IP range to resolve the issue manually.
Discovery and Inventory The processor count in OpenManage Essentials differs for managed systems that contain processors with multiple cores or HyperThreading enabled. The count differs based on whether the managed system is discovered using the CIM or SNMP protocol. The systems discovered using SNMP reports physical processors, and the systems discovered using CIM reports logical processors.
Issue 6: Description NIC information is not displayed in the device details screen for Dell/EMC arrays. Use Navisphere Manager to view these details. Issue 7: Description 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.
Issue 14: Description Even after performing inventory on the discovered Linux servers 'N' number of times, the Linux servers are still listed under Non-Inventoried systems'. Resolution To resolve this issue perform the following steps: For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 1. Mount the OpenManage Server Administrator DVD in the Linux server 2. Install 'srvadmin-cm' rpm. 3. Restart the OpenManage Server Administrator services. 4.
Issue 20: Description When a Dell PowerConnect 8100 series switch is discovered, the MAC address associated with the management IP in the NIC Information table will be displayed as “N/A” in OpenManage Essentials. Issue 21: Description Discovery and Inventory of servers that have virtual network adapters are not displayed in the “NIC Information” table of the server.
Issue 25: Description When OpenManage Essentials is used to discover and inventory devices of the same category having same name (for example, servers) in different subnets (for example, my_server), then The device tree displays the information of the device that was discovered last. The device information portal (Details tab) displays the merged data from all devices. Resolution: 1. Ensure that the correct FQDN is defined for each target device. 2.
Issue 30: Description When a XenServer is discovered using SSH, the MAC address is not displayed in the same column for the IP address. Alerts OpenManage Essentials can receive and process alerts from systems with an IPv4 address format. Issue 1: Description If the intensity of an alert storm increases beyond 5 traps per second, it could take OpenManage Essentials several minutes to process all the alerts.
Issue 8: Description When creating an alert action for an application launch, OME system path variables which contain % signs are not supported. Examples of unsupported variables are: %WINDIR%, %SystemRoot%, %APPDATA%, %HOMEPATH%, %PATH%, and so on. Resolution: Avoid using the system path variables with % sign and use the full absolute path to the executable file.
"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389286(VS.85).aspx" "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875605" For Windows Server 2008 onwards, see the following link: "http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa822854(VS.85).aspx"[312918] Issue 4: Description When creating or updating a task, the stamp for the creation or update time is that of the OpenManage Essentials UI. The "Last Run Time" displayed on the summary report, however, is the time of the Essentials Services system.
4. Click "Add User or Group," and, in the "Enter the object names to select box type the user or group name" to which you want to assign the user right and click "Ok." 5. Click "Ok" again and double-click "Replace a process level token" in the "Details" pane. 6. Click "Add User or Group" and in the "Enter the object names to select box type the user or group name" to which you want to assign the user right and click "Ok.
Issue 15: Description For Deploy Server Administrator Task, after the task is created, the task status may say 'pending' while the task icon shows the 'task complete' icon. This means that the Deploy Server Administrator package i.e msi or msp has been downloaded successfully though the task execution is still pending. Once the task starts execution the 'task complete' icon will change accordingly. Issue 16: Description For ‘Remote Task’ and ‘System Update’ multiple selection of task is not supported.
Issue 23: Description OpenManage Server Administrator deployment on ESXi server: OMSA cannot be deployed on ESXi server using OpenManage Essentials. For more information, see the white paper 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.
Issue 28: Description When creating a Command Line task and selecting Remote Server Administrator command for a Linux target using a command other than omreport and omconfig, the task status indicates the task as completed and displays a green status . This occurs because the Remote Server Administrator command supports omreport and omconfig commands. Resolution: While creating a Remote Server Administrator command, make sure to use only omreport and omconfig commands for the task to return correct data.
Issue 33: Description The 64-bit Dell Remote Access Controller Admin (RACADM) tool does not support the OpenManage Essentials RACADM Command Line Task. [29703] Issue 34: Description The Total Targets in the Task Execution History retains the count of the previously executed targets and also the execution history. [29583] Issue 35: Description OME allows editing and re-run of OMSA deployment tasks.
Issue 42: Description An existing remote task may be replaced by a newly created remote task. [31534] Resolution Restart the DSM Essentials Task Manager service. Issue 43: Description Deploying OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) as a sudo user does not work on a system running SLES 11. Resolution Ensure that the directory for the sudo user exists in the /home directory on SLES 11, and then deploy OMSA. If the directory does not exist under /home, create the sudo user using the useradd –m option.
Issue 5: Description 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 4: Description If after reboot, “DSM Essentials Network Monitor” or “DSM Essentials Task Manager” services are not up automatically, you have to manually start those. Issue 5: Description When you launch Dell OpenManage Server Administrator for managed systems with Server Administrator agent only installations, a remote web server is used for which you must provide the user name and password of the managed system.
Issue 13: Description After the SNMP feature is installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012, the Windows Event Viewer logs an Error with Source: SNMP and Event ID: 1500, under Windows Logs System. This SNMP error is also logged whenever the SNMP Service is started. This SNMP error has been determined not to have any influence on the operation of SNMP or the system, and can be ignored. For more information, see the Microsoft knowledgebase article 200203 at support.microsoft.com.
Issue: Description OME services do not start automatically on the OME host if the Windows license is activated after a system reboot. Resolution If Windows is not activated, activate the Windows license, run Windows update and reboot the system. On inactivated system, OME services will not start up automatically. On such a systems, services need to be restarted manually.
Miscellaneous: If OpenManage Essentials is installed using domain user and if discovery/inventory fails after install, verify the domain controller is responsive, a slow domain controller might cause discovery/inventory to fail. Limitations If you are launching OpenManage Essentials installer from an UNC/shared path, you will not be able to install prerequisites from the OpenManage Essentials Prerequisites window.
Number of Dell Update Packages you import for software update. Number of MSI files you import for software deployment If Dell SupportAssist is installed along with OpenManage Essentials, you require 2 GB RAM, Dual core processors in addition to the minimum requirements described in the above table. If you are using SQL Server Standard or Enterprise Editions, the maximum SQL Server memory must be configured within SQL Server to prevent it from using the entire system memory.
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. NOTE: This CLI software is part of the OpenManage Essentials installer media and can be installed from the prerequisites window. Installation Instructions First-time Installation of OpenManage Essentials version 1.
