###################################################################### DELL OPENMANAGE(TM) SERVER ADMINISTRATOR VERSION 5.3 README ###################################################################### NOTE: This readme provides information for Dell OpenManage Server Administrator version 5.3. This file contains updated information for your "Dell OpenManage Server Administrator User's Guide" and any other technical documentation included with Server Administrator. NOTE: See the Dell OpenManage Install 5.
3 - Optional Dell recommends that you review specifics about the update to determine if it applies to your system. The update contains changes that impact only certain configurations and provides new features that may or may not apply to your environment.
Server 2003 R2 (Express, Standard, Workgroup, and Enterprise editions), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SBS R2 (Standard and Premium), Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit (Web edition), and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit extensions) (Standard and Core, Enterprise and Core, and Datacenter and Core editions). NOTE: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is scheduled to be available in the first half of 2008. For latest information, see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/default.mspx.
====================================================================== SUPPORTED SSL VERSION ====================================================================== * Server Administrator supports SSL 3.0 exclusively. ====================================================================== SUPPORTED RAC FIRMWARE ====================================================================== * iDRAC firmware version 1.0 or greater is required for systems installed with iDRAC. * DRAC 5 firmware version 1.
* Added support to disable baseboard management controller (BMC) automatic system recovery (ASR) when the operating system's watchdog timer (WDT) is configured. * Added support for additional LAN network ports on the motherboard. * Added support to display embedded hypervisor information in the BIOS Setup page and Ports Information page. * Added support to configure the optical drive controller in the BIOS Setup page.
This section provides information to help enhance your experience with Server Administrator, in particular, implementations and environments. * Server Administrator uses port 1311 as the default port. Port 1311 is a registered port number of Dell Inc. If another application is configured to run on port 1311 before Server Administrator is installed, the DSM SA Connection Service will not start after installation. Before you install Server Administrator, ensure that port 1311 is not being used.
4. Select "Trusted sites". 5. Click the "Custom Level" button. 6. Under "User Authentication", select the "Automatic Logon with current username and password" radio button. Press ‘OK’ to exit the "Custom Level" window. 7. Now select the "Advanced" tab, and under "HTTP 1.1 settings", make sure "Use HTTP 1.1" is checked. 8. Select "Trusted sites". Click "Sites". Add server to the website. Click "Close". 9. Click "OK" and restart your browser.
at "\support\mib" on the "Dell Systems Consoles and Agent" CD. NOTE: A MIB-II-compliant, SNMP-supported network management station is required to compile and browse MIB files. * OpenManage support for EFS (Encrypting File System) To improve security, Microsoft provides the capability to encrypt files using EFS (Encrypting File System). Please note that Server Administrator will not function if its dependent files are encrypted.
running Server Administrator. * If you have to uninstall and reinstall the operating system SNMP service, then reinstall Server Administrator as well, so that the Server Administrator SNMP agents are registered with the operating system SNMP agent. * Server Administrator Device Drivers for Linux Server Administrator includes two device drivers for Linux: Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) and Dell BIOS Update Driver (dell_rbu).
Service online help by selecting the Storage or lower-level tree object and clicking the Help button on the global navigation bar.
(Windows 2000 Server) "http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=818060" (Windows 2003 Server) "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839571" As explained in the Microsoft KB article, use the Registry Editor ("regedit.exe") to browse to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Internet Settings\ If "DialupUseLanSettings" key is not present, create a registry item for "DialupUseLanSettings" and set a value of "1". Make sure the value type is "DWORD".
unexpectedly and restart. If this occurs, the folder "C:\Temp\invcol" may be left as an artifact. The presence of this folder does not affect functionality of the inventory collection. The folder an be deleted if required. (138549) * After installing Server Administrator from the command prompt, issuing an "omreport" or "omconfig" command from the same prompt can cause an error. Open a new command prompt and issue commands from the new window.
command on the CLI can result in XML parsing errors if the size of the log is very large. Use the GUI or the "omreport system esmlog/alertlog/cmdlog" CLI command to view the contents of the log.(124997) * For complex "omconfig" CLI commands that contain multiple commands in one command line, the CLI may report a success status for the command even if part of the command failed. To avoid this issue, run only one command per command line.
omconfig system webserver action=start * A temperature that drops below a minimum failure threshold does not cause a system reset even if this alert action is set. * A reporting error, for the amount of memory enabled, may exist for the Level 2 (L2) cache memory when you view "Processor interface" for PowerEdge 6600 and 6650 systems. It may be incorrectly displayed as 256 K. If you purchased more than 256 K of L2 cache with your system, all of the L2 cache you have installed is fully enabled.
- If you are using Internet Explorer, click "File" on the menu bar and deselect the "Work Offline" option. When "Work Offline" is selected, a check displays to the left of the option on the "File" menu. * If Internet Explorer prompts you to "Work Offline", "Connect", or "Try Again", always select "Connect" or "Try Again". Do not select "Work Offline". * When setting dates in the "Asset Information" section of the Server Administrator home page, the current time is appended to the date.
The Auto Recovery feature can be set to execute an action (e.g. reboot system) to recover a hung system. Since the Auto Recovery timer is now an application level timer instead of a kernel level timer, heavy resource stress on the system makes it more likely that a short keep alive interval (less than 120 seconds) will not be measured accurately, and the configured action may be triggered.
* The DSM SA Connection Service might hang on system startup if both Oracle and VERITAS(R) Backup Exec(TM) are installed on the system. To manually start the DSM SA Connection Service on a system running Windows, click "Start-> Programs-> Administrative Tools-> Service", right-click "DSM SA Connections Services" and select "Start". * The Server Administrator might show blank page after a refresh browser by pressing or by clicking the browser "Refresh" in Internet Explorer Version 7.0.
with Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1: 1. Go to System -> Logs 2. Select "Command," "Alert," or "Hardware." 3. Click "Save As" 4. Click "Open" in "File Download" message box. Additionally, the "Export" function in the Server Administrator GUI may not work. The root cause of both problems is the same. To resolve the issue, uncheck "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" under Tools-> Internet Options-> Advanced tab. For more information, see the following article on the Microsoft website: "http://support.
Sign-on may not work if in the Internet Explorer, under "Tools" -> "Internet Options" -> "Security" -> "Custom Level", the "User Authentication Logon" option is set to "Prompt for user name and password".
request for a network interface address. For example, if a network interface has an IP address of 192.168.1.1, the SNMP daemon will provide an IP address of 192.168.1.1.0.0.0.0. This may have adverse affects when trying to manage the system and may affect Dell IT Assistant operations. To avoid this issue, update the net-snmp RPM to version 5.1.3.1-0.13 or later via YaST Online Update.
for a regenerating virtual disk. When a physical disk in a virtual disk is rebuilding, the virtual disk changes to a "Regenerating" state. The Format and Check Consistency operations should not be performed on a virtual disk that is in a Regenerating state. However, the task drop-down menu for a Regenerating RAID 1-concatenated virtual disk may display the "Format and Check Consistency" options. Dell is working to resolve this problem.
750, 800, 830, 840, 850, 860, 1600SC, 1650, 1750, 1800, 1850, 2600, 2650, 2800, 2850, 4600, 6600, 6650, 6800, 6850, 6950, 2970, R200, M600, M605, R805, and R900 systems only. The following subsections list the currently known issues regarding implementation and operation of your RAC and the Remote Access Service in Server Administrator.
or running". This issue is caused by the new Java applet security features of Mozilla 1.7.3 or later. Perform the following steps to manually install the plug-in for that specific browser: 1. Log in to DRAC 4 and navigate to the "Properties" page. 2. Change the Web address in the browser window from "https:///cgi/main" to "https:///rac4vm.xpi", and press Enter. Mozilla prompts you with an "Opening rac4vm.
operating system authentication" feature in this version of firmware. Due to this change, the following commands will return errors: "racadm localauthenable" "omconfig rac authentication" * Due to fluctuations in the watchdog timer, the "Last Crash Screen" may not be captured when the Automatic System Recovery is set to a value of less than 30 seconds. To ensure correct functioning of the Last Crash Screen feature, set the System Reset Timer to at least 30 seconds.
timer using the Server Administrator GUI. In the Server Administrator GUI, click the "Properties" tab and ensure that the "Auto Recovery" is selected. The default value of the "Action On Hung Operating System Detection" setting is "None". "None" indicates that detection will not be performed. * RAC firmware 2.0 and higher does not support passwords with special characters (non-alphanumeric) only for RAC user IDs logging in using the Web-based interface (with Local RAC Authentication).
3. Click "Preferences ...". 4. Click "Advanced" in the left sidebar. 5. Click "Proxies" in the left sidebar. 6. Enter the RAC IP address in the "No Proxy for:" field. 7. Click "OK" and then close the browser. * If the out-of-band RAC user interface was spawned off from the Server Administrator home page with a Mozilla browser, strings with extended ASCII characters may not display correctly in certain languages. This issue occurs because the browser is set to the UTF-8 character set by Server Administrator.
default value for a RAC's internal PPP IP address is 192.168.234.235, but the address can be changed by the user. This issue is a known problem, and there is an article and a hot fix available from Microsoft. The Knowledge Base article number is Q292822. Downloading the hot fix and implementing the steps in the article will solve the problem. * If you have used the "Systems Management Consoles" CD version 3.
and erratic during DRAC III console redirection. This behavior is evident especially when using menus or opening windows. * Resizing the Windows desktop to a resolution of 640 x 480 causes some information to not be visible in the browser window when using the RAC Web-based interface. This issue occurs in Internet Explorer. To view a screen in its entirety when using a resolution of 640 x 480, you must enlarge the browser window.
"Red Hat" is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc.; "SUSE" is a registered trademark of Novell Inc.; "EMC" and "Navisphere" are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation; "VERITAS" is a registered trademark and "Backup Exec" is a trademark of VERITAS Software Corporation; Adaptec is a registered trademark of Adaptec, Inc. Server Administrator uses the OverLIB JavaScript library. This library can be obtained from "http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/".
