Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- Introduction
- What’s New for Version 5.1
- Setup and Administration
- Installing Server Administrator
- Using Server Administrator
- Instrumentation Service
- Remote Access Service
- Overview
- Hardware Prerequisites
- Software Prerequisites
- Adding and Configuring DRAC Users
- Configuring an Existing DRAC User
- Configuring the DRAC Network Properties
- Configuring the DRAC Alert Properties
- Configuring DRAC III Dial-in (PPP) Users and Modem Settings
- Configuring the DRAC Remote Features Properties
- Configuring DRAC Security
- Accessing and Using a Dell Remote Access Controller
- Working With the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
- Storage Management Service
- Server Administrator Logs
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
What’s New for Version 5.1 15
What’s New for Version 5.1
• Added support for SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server (Version 10), on Intel
®
Extended Memory 64
Technology (Intel EM64T) systems.
Server Administrator is only supported on the host system (domain 0), Xen extensions are not
supported.
NOTE: Remote Access Service is not supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (Version 10).
• Added support for Microsoft
®
Windows
®
Small Business Server 2003 R2 on Intel EM64T systems.
• Added support for Microsoft Multilingual Interface (MUI) on the Microsoft Windows Storage
Server 2003 R2 operating system.
The Server Administrator Graphical User Interface (GUI) is not automatically displayed in the
language you select in MUI. To view the Server Administrator GUI in the language of your choice,
change the default browser language in your browser settings. Server Administrator GUI is only
available in English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese.
• Added support for the following Dell
™
PowerEdge
™
systems: 840 and 860.
• Added support for Microsoft Virtual Server on the service console.
• Added support for VMware
®
ESX Server™ 3.0 on the service console.
NOTE: Dell OpenManage
®
installation with VMware ESX Server software requires special steps.
See the VMware Systems Compatibility Guide located in the Resource Center at
www.dell.com/vmware to determine the versions of ESX Server software compatible with this
release of Dell OpenManage. Each ESX Server release from Dell has an associated Dell
VMware ESX Server Deployment Guide, also posted at this Web location. Instructions for
installing supported versions of Dell OpenManage available at the time of that ESX Server
release are found in that ESX Server release's Deployment Guide.
• Added support for Health rollup for the Storage Management Service.
• The
FRU
tab has been renamed as
System Components (FRU).
• The Diagnostic Service is no longer available through Server Administrator. To run diagnostics,
install Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics from your
Dell PowerEdge Service and Diagnostic Utilities
CD
or download and install Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics from the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com
. Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics is a stand-alone application that can be run
without installing Server Administrator. See the
Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics User’s Guide
for more
information.