Release Notes

If the issue persists, there may be an issue with the DNS server resolving the name of the OpenManage
Essentials server. To resolve the DNS server issue:
1. Contact your system administrator and ensure that the OpenManage Essentials system name is
added to the DNS server.
2. Edit your host file to resolve the IP of the OpenManage Essentials server. The host file is located
at %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.
3. Add the IP of the OpenManage Essentials server to the Local intranet sites in Internet Explorer.
NOTE: You cannot resolve the certificate errors unless you use the fully qualified name of the
OpenManage Essentials server.
If a certificate error is displayed:
• Contact your system administrator to add the OpenManage Essentials certificate published to the
‘Trusted Root Certificate Authorities’ and ‘Trusted Publishers’ on domain systems.
• Add the OpenManage Essentials certificate manually to your ‘Trusted Root Certificate Authorities’
and ‘Trusted Publishers’ certificate stores using Internet Explorer.
• Exporting data from a grid in OpenManage Essentials using Internet Explorer 10:
Under certain circumstances, when you attempt to export data from OpenManage Essentials by
right-clicking and selecting the “Export” menu from any grid control, if you select the .csv format, the
exported data is actually saved in .html format even though the file generated is a .csv suffixed file.
This behavior seems to be related to the security settings associated with Internet Explorer 10. If you
reset the security settings to default, this behavior is no longer observable. [31647]
Miscellaneous:
If OpenManage Essentials is installed using a domain user account and if the discovery/inventory fails
after the installation, verify if the domain controller is responsive. A slow domain controller might cause
discovery/inventory to fail.
Limitations
• The server configuration template created using OpenManage Essentials may not include some of
the RAID encryption attributes that are available in the configuration template that is generated
using the WinRM and RACADM commands. [47566]
• During upgrade of SupportAssist, you must uninstall Dell System E-Support Tool (DSET) version 3.3 to
continue. Upgrade from DSET version 3.3 to version 3.4.1 is not possible. [46490]
• Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 in a virtualization environment are only classified
as ‘Servers’ and not under ‘Microsoft Virtualization Servers’ group.
• 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. You must copy the
installer files to the system or mount the shared folder path to assign a drive to it.
• A 32-bit system with OpenManage Essentials may display an error message while applying system
updates using iDRAC. To resolve this issue, make sure that you update the version of Windows
Remote Management (WinRM) currently installed on the system to version 2.0 using the Windows
updates.
• If you are unable to schedule system update tasks using iDRAC, check your credentials and access
rights. You must have Administrator rights to update a system using iDRAC.
• For Dell EqualLogic devices, the model information is displayed as N/A in the Details tab. [30478]
• The Warranty notification scoreboard icon does not appear in the OpenManage Essentials heading
banner until the browser is refreshed. [30126]
• For Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator, the Application Launch option does not open the web
console. [31059]
• Multiple simultaneous logins are not supported in OpenManage Essentials version 1.2. Multiple users
cannot login using the Sign in as Different User feature on the same browser. [31131, 31132]
• The health status of disks displayed in the iDRAC7 console does not match with the health status of
disks displayed in the OMSA console. [31383]