Rev. A00 May 2021 Dell EMC OpenManage Release Notes Version 10.0.1 Release Type: Major (MA) Topics: • • • • • • • • • Product description OMSA Customer Survey Platforms Affected Requirements What’s new in this release Installation Procedure Known issues and workarounds for Server Administrator User notes Storage Management Service Current Release Version: 10.0.1 Current Release Type: Major Previous Release Version: 9.5.
OMSA Customer Survey Survey link: https://secure.opinionlab.com. Dell Technologies is exclusively surveying OMSA customers, collecting feedback, and implementing suggestions. As a customer, the above link is available for you to take the survey at various phases of OMSA usage such as Windows or Linux based installation, while using the OMSA GUI and CLI, and VMware ESXi.
● ● ● ● Single multipath and multiple multipath connection feature for 4-port controllers. Array584EMM enclosures. Events for NVMe drives having initialization error. Non-Dell certified drives connected to software RAID S150 controller and later. Supported platforms and controllers: ● PowerEdge R750XA: PERC S150, HBA 355i Adp, HBA 355e Adp, PERC H345 Front/Adapter, PERC H745 Front/Adapter, PERC H755N, PERC H755 Front/Adapter.
2. Click Internet Options. 3. Click the Security tab. 4. Select Trusted sites. 5. Click the Custom Level button. 6. Under User Authentication, select the Automatic Logon with current username and passwordradio button. Click OK to exit the Custom Level window. 7. Select the Advanced tab and in HTTP 1.1 settings, make sure Use HTTP 1.1 is selected. 8. Select Trusted sites. Click Sites. Add the server to the website. 9. Click Close. 10. Click OK and restart your browser.
Table 1. Issues of Server Administrator on all supported operating systems (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolution using the omconfig system cmdlog action=clear command. DF384362 Redundancy Status Redundancy Status displays as Not Not available Applicable in ESXi even when NICs are teamed. On VMware ESXi systems, NIC teaming status may not display up in the Server Administrator network section.
Table 1. Issues of Server Administrator on all supported operating systems (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolution Not available XML parsing errors Typing omreport system esmlog/ Not available alertlog/cmdlog -fmt tbl command on the CLI results in XML parsing errors if the size of the log is large. Use the UI or the omreport system esmlog/alertlog/ cmdlog CLI command to view the contents of the log.
Table 1. Issues of Server Administrator on all supported operating systems (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolution Not available Unsecured HTTP requests All unsecured HTTP requests to Server Administrator receive an invalid response. Server Administrator runs only one instance of the Web server, which is secure. Make all connections through https://: .
Table 1. Issues of Server Administrator on all supported operating systems (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolution You can edit the BIOS attributes 18 hours after the operating system installation. launch Lifecycle Controller while booting. BITS040169 Boot/HDD/UEFI sequence In case of Boot/HDD/UEFI sequence, if they Not available are read-only, then toggle buttons (+ and -) and submit button are not visible.
Table 1. Issues of Server Administrator on all supported operating systems (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolution 112708 Memory critical error Memory critical error not clearing from OMSA even after replacing the DIMM and clearing SEL logs. The command to clear the memory error is dcicfg command=clearmemfailures. The binary dcicfg, needed to launch the command from a shell command, is included in the OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) suite.
Table 1. Issues of Server Administrator on all supported operating systems (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolution 186602 Alert timestamp Not available When two or more alerts are intermittently generated but with the same timestamp, then the order in which they are listed in the logs may not be sequential. Issues of Server Administrator on Microsoft Windows operating systems The issues are applicable to Server Administrator on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Table 2. Issues of Server Administrator on Microsoft Windows operating systems (continued) Issue ID Functional Area Description Workaround/Resolution ○ Under User Authentication Logon option, change the settings to “Automatic logon with current user name and password". ○ Add the server URL to Trusted sites under Tools > Internet Options > Security > Trusted sites > Sites. .
Table 3. Issues of Server Administrator on Linux operating systems (continued) Issue ID Functional Area Description Workaround/Resolution sbin/dataeng.hotplug ] && /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/ dataeng.hotplug usb'' failed with exit code 1.
Table 4. Issues of Server Administrator on Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems (continued) Issue ID Functional Area Not available Update to RHEL 8.x or RHEL 9.x Description Workaround/Resolution When there is major update to an operating system version, for example, from RHEL 8.x to RHEL 9.x then the OpenManage Server Administrator dependencies are updated based on the versions provided by the respective operating system. Update your system software if any vulnerable versions are detected.
Table 5. Issues of Server Administrator on VMware ESXi (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolution while connecting to the Server Administrator from Server Administrator web server (DWS): because there is no functionality loss. LinuxThread: 381: sfcb-dcim: Error cloning thread: -1 (bad0117) User notes User privileges The iDRAC user privileges and attributes have changed. Therefore, you will see a difference in Server Administrator and iDRAC user privileges and attributes.
User notes for Remote Access Service ● The remote access service is available on supported systems only in this release. It enables remote access to a server that has lost its network connection or that has become unresponsive. In the current release of Server Administrator, the Remote Access Service uses Integrated Remote Access Controller (iDRAC). ● iDRAC also has its own CLI that is accessed through the racadm command. You can add racadm commands to a batch or script file to automate various user tasks.
Table 6. Known issues for Storage Management Service (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolutions Clear Redundant Path View, provided in the Change Controller Properties controller task, and restart the system. NOTE: Use this command only if you have intentionally removed the multipath connection while rebooting the system. Not available VMware ESXi 6.x In the VMware ESXi 6.
Table 6. Known issues for Storage Management Service (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolutions remove the physical disks from the controller. DF60696 Internet Explorer 9.x or 10.x Storage Management responds slowly when using Internet Explorer 9.x or 10.x on a system with mixed SAS and SATA physical disks.
Table 6. Known issues for Storage Management Service (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolutions Not available Configuration of enclosures On a PowerEdge server with maximum configuration of 8 populated enclosures connected to the PERC hardware controller, the user can experience a delay in response. When Server Administrator storage commands such as Create Virtual Disk or Start check consistency are run, the delay in response can range from 10–30 minutes.
Table 6. Known issues for Storage Management Service (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolutions ( Arraydisk ) will be displayed under “Enclosure / Backplane” whereas Add-On Card ( HHHL Card ) will be displayed under “PCIe SSD Subsystem”.
Table 6. Known issues for Storage Management Service (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolutions 95176 Intelligent mirror VDs The Physical disks available in MX5016s connected to chassis slot 8 does not support RAID-10 intelligent mirror virtual disk creation. Not available 101739 EMM failure alerts If an EMM is removed from MX5016s sled, EMM failure Not available or removal alert is not observed on Server Administrator alerts.
Table 6. Known issues for Storage Management Service (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolutions Not available The Submit button On UI if the submit button is clicked more than once an internal error may occur, but the task will be performed successfully. Not available 132214 Managed preserved Few minutes delay occurs to disable the Managed task preserved cache task from the task list, after clicking on Discard preserved cache.
Table 6. Known issues for Storage Management Service (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolutions Not available PCIe subsystems The Device name field of NVMe drives is displayed as char device name on PCIe subsystems running on Linux operating. Not available 165785 Read-write policy on S130 On S130 and later, any change in read and write policy values while creation of virtual disks does not reflect on virtual disk.
Table 6. Known issues for Storage Management Service (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolutions 113370 Intelligent mirror VDs RAID 10 virtual disk creation using intelligent mirroring fails, as the support is not available from OM 9.4. Not available Not available Polling interval To determine the changes made on an enclosure Not available connected to HBA 11 controller and later versions, the polling interval is set to five minutes.
Table 6. Known issues for Storage Management Service (continued) Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Resolutions 194288 Additional physical disk ID in Alert Log When you hot plug the enclosure to HBA355e controller, there is an additional physical disk ID displayed in the Alert Log page.
Microsoft Windows Drivers for Controllers Windows Drivers for S150, H745 Front/Adapter, H755N Front, H755 Front/Adapter, H755 MX, H745P MX, H345 Adapter, H840, HBA 355i Adp, HBA 355e Adp, HBA 330 MMZ, HBA 350i MX, HBA 345 Adpt, 12Gbps SAS HBA, HBA 345 Frnt, BOSS-S1 Adapter, BOSS-S1 Modular, BOSS-S2 Table 9. List of Drivers for controllers Controller Windows Server 2016/2019 Driver S150 6.1.0.0009 H745P MX 7.714.05 H840 7.714.05 H745 Front 7.714.05 H745 Adapter 7.714.05 H345 Adapter 7.714.
Table 11. Linux Drivers for Controllers (continued) Red Hat Linux 7.9 64-bit driver Red Hat Linux 8.3 64-bit driver Ubuntu 20.04 64-Bit Driver SLES 15 SP2 64-Bit Driver VMware ESXi 6.7 U3 Driver VMware ESXi 7.
