Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 4.3 Release Notes
- Release Type and Definition
- Importance
- Platforms Affected
- What is supported
- What’s New
- Important Notes
- Fixes
- Known Issues and Resolutions
- Limitations
- Installation Prerequisites
- Installation Procedure
- Installation and Configuration Notes
- Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site
- Contacting Dell
4. For the OMIVV appliance mode, ensure that you deploy OMIVV in the appropriate mode based on your virtualization
environment. For more information, see the section “System requirements for deployment modes” in OpenManage
Integration for VMware vCenter Version 4.3.0 Installation Guide.
5. Configure your network to match the port requirements. For more information, see the section “Port information” in
OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 4.3.0 Installation Guide.
6. For 14th generation PowerEdge servers, iDRAC mounts the NFS through TCP on port 2049.
7. When restoring the OMIVV data, ensure that you end all the vCenter sessions.
Fixes
This release includes improvements and bug fixes, including the following previously reported Known Issues that are now
resolved:
● Security fixes for known vulnerabilities in components consumed in OMIVV appliance:
○ Fixed BEAST (CVE-2011-3389) vulnerability issue in OMIVV appliance.
○ Fixed NFS Shares World readable and - NFS Exported Share Information Disclosure (CVE-1999-0170, CVE-1999-0211,
CVE-1999-0554)
○ CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2018:2390) (Foreshadow)
○ CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2018:1854) (Spectre)
○ Oracle Java SE Multiple Vulnerabilities (July 2018 CPU) (Unix)
● Fix to report NVMe disks present in the host in OMIVV.
● Fix to support special characters in CIFS share password.
● Fix to show BOSS related RAID attributes in System Profile.
Known Issues and Resolutions
● Issue 1: iDRAC might not send an event when your system reboots.
Description: Sometimes the iDRAC might not send an event when your system reboots. In this case, OMIVV sends latest
health update notification by polling mechanism and you will receive the latest health update within an hour.
Version affected: 4.0 and later
● Issue 2: The Export All button fails to export to .CSV file in the Google chrome.
Description: After registering a vCenter server, if you add a host and create a connection profile, and then view the
inventory details of the host, the Export All button returns a failure. The Export All button does not export the information
to a .CSV file.
NOTE:
In all versions of the Google chrome browser, the Export All button does not export the information to a .CSV file in
Incognito mode.
Version affected: 4.0
Resolution/Workaround: To export information to a .CSV file by using the Export All button in the Google chrome, disable
the Incognito mode in chrome browser.
● Issue 3: iDRAC license type and description are displayed incorrectly for non-compliant vSphere hosts.
Description: If a host is noncomplaint when CSIOR is disabled or has not been run, the iDRAC license information is displayed
incorrectly although valid iDRAC license is available. Hence, you can view the host in vSphere hosts list, but when you
click the host for details, the information in iDRAC License Type is displayed as empty and iDRAC License Description is
displayed as "Your license needs to be upgraded".
Version affected: 4.0
Resolution/Workaround: None
● Issue 4: Although deployment job fails due to inaccessible file share, the status is displayed as “Cancel”.
Description: When you create a hypervisor profile with invalid credentials such as, invalid credentials for CIFS share, and
select the same hypervisor profile for deployment, the deployment task fails. However, the status displayed in the Job
Queue page is Cancel instead of Failed.
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