Release Notes

1. Find and select "Tools" from the menu.
2. Select "Internet Options" and click the "Security" tab.
3. Click "Custom level" button and scroll down to "User Authentication".
4. Under "Logon", choose the option "Automatic logon with current user name and password". If Server
Administrator is running in the "Local Intranet Zone", you may choose the option "Automatic log on only in
Intranet zone" instead.
5. Click "Ok" to open dialog boxes to complete the setting.
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 - Alert Action -> Execute Application (103661)
For security reasons, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is configured to not allow interactive services.
When a service is installed as an interactive service on Microsoft Windows Server 2008, the
operating system logs an error message to the Windows System log about the service being marked
as an interactive service.
When you use Server Administrator to configure Alert Actions for an event, you can specify the
action to "execute an application". In order for interactive applications to execute properly for an
Alert Action, the DSM SA Data Manager service must be configured as an interactive service.
Examples of interactive applications are applications with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or that
prompt you for input in some way such as the "pause" command in a batch file.
When Server Administrator is installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2008, the DSM SA Data
Manager service is installed as a non-interactive service which means that it is configured to not be
allowed to interact with the desktop directly. If an interactive application is executed for an Alert
Action in this situation, the application will be suspended waiting for input from the user, but the
application interface/prompt will not be visible to the user. The application interface/prompt will not
be visible even after the Interactive Services Detection service is started. For each execution of the
interactive application, there will be an entry for the application process in the "Processes" tab in
Task Manager.
If you need to execute an interactive application for an Alert Action on Microsoft Windows Server
2008, you must configure the DSM SA Data Manager service to be allowed to interact with the
desktop. To allow interaction with the desktop, right-click on the DSM SA Data Manager service in
the Services control panel and select Properties. In the "Log On" tab, enable "Allow service to
interact with desktop" and click OK. Restart the DSM SA Data Manager service for the change to
take effect. When the DSM SA Data Manager service is restarted with this change, the Service
Control Manager logs the following message to the System log: "The DSM SA Data Manager
service is marked as an interactive service. However, the system is configured to not allow
interactive services. This service may not function properly." This change allows the DSM SA Data
Manager service to execute interactive applications properly for an Alert Action. Also make sure
the Interactive Services Detection service is running in order to see the interface/prompt displayed
by the interactive application. Once these changes are made, the "Interactive services dialog
detection" dialog box will be displayed by the operating system to provide access to the interactive
application interface/prompt.
After upgrading Windows Server 2003 x64 to Windows Server 2008 x64 with Dell OpenManage
Server Administrator installed, the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator display does not show
all of the expected instrumentation pages. The Dell OpenManage Server Administrator installation
must be repaired. Go to Start->Settings->Control panel->Add Remove Programs->Select "Change"
on the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator installation and select the "Repair" option to correct
the issue.
• Server Administrator Web server local user login fails on the Windows 2008 R2 Managed Node. (330800)
When a Windows 2008 R2 Managed Node is added to a domain, logging in from any Server
Administrator Web Server to that Windows 2008 R2 Managed Node will fail with local user or local
power-user credentials. Only local Administrator or Domain user's credentials will work, with a
prerequisite that all required winrm configurations have been applied.
Issues for Server Administrator running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems
• When starting Server Administrator from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux console, kernel log messages may
display. To avoid these messages, perform the following steps:
1.
Edit the "/etc/sysconfig/syslog" file and modify KLOGD_OPTIONS to KLOGD_OPTIONS="-c
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