Release Notes

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 you have a Windows firewall configured on the management station or the managed system, make
the following configuration changes to enable remote Server Administrator CLI and software updates to
work successfully.
Management station:
1. Open TCP port 135.
2. Add the application "omremote.exe" (located in Essentials\bin) to the firewall exception list.
Managed system:
If you have the Windows firewall configured, enable remote administration by running the following
command at the command prompt:
"netsh firewall set service RemoteAdmin"
For more information on connecting through the Windows firewall, see Microsoft's MSDN website for
Platform SDK: Windows Management Instrumentation (Connecting through Windows Firewall) at
"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389286(VS.85).aspx"
"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875605"
For Windows Server 2008 onwards, see:
"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa822854(VS.85).aspx"[312918]
Issue 15:
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. If there is a significant variation in the UI and Services system time, it is
possible that a scheduled task may not execute or show that it was executed before it was created.
[137997]
Issue 16:
Description
If you set the task start or end time to a time in Daylight Saving Time (DST) shift period, OpenManage
Essentials changes the task start or end time to the closest valid time. [165393]
Resolution
A workaround to eliminate the changing of start or end time is to set a valid start/end time.
Issue 17:
Description
By default, root login through SSH is not enabled on VMware ESX Servers. As a result, all the
OpenManage Essentials tasks that use the root account fail. To enable the SSH root login on the ESX
Server, set the option "PermitRootLogin=YES" in "/etc/ssh/sshd_conf" file. [174023]
Issue 18:
Description
The Server Administrator Deployment task requires dependent components (example libc++) to be
installed on the target systems running the Linux operating system. If these components are not installed,
the task fails with the following error message:
"omexec must be installed on the remote node for the task. See the help and ensure that the remote
node requirements are met before executing the task." [175296]