Release Notes

• Server Administrator GUI and CLI Response Time
On Dell PowerEdge x8xx and later systems, the response time for some parts of the Dell
OpenManage Server Administrator GUI and CLI have increased to several seconds because some of
the iDRAC data is no longer cached by Server Administrator. The data must be retrieved from the
iDRAC when requested by you.
The Server Administrator GUI pages whose response time may have increased are as follows:
— Server Administrator home page on log in
— Remote Access -> Users
— Alert Management -> Platform Events
The Server Administrator CLI commands whose response time may have increased are as follows:
— omreport chassis remoteaccess config=user
— omreport system platformevents
— omreport system pedestinations
The amount of time varies depending on the hardware system and operating system.
Notes for Instrumentation Service
• When configuring BIOS setup options through server administrator, if conflict BIOS settings exist, the
update attempt may fail at system reboot and possibly none of the BIOS setup option is updated.
For example, when you configure Embedded SATA Controller to RAID and Boot Mode to UEFI
simultaneously (UEFI does not support RAID option), this conflict prevents any BIOS configuration
to be updated (at system reboot).
• On certain systems, user-defined thresholds set under Server Administrator become the default thresholds
after uninstalling Server Administrator.
After you change the threshold value of a probe on certain systems running Server Administrator
and then uninstall Server Administrator, the changed threshold value becomes the default threshold
value.
• When modifying the warning threshold settings, the values are stored in the firmware as discrete integer
values and scaled for display. If the modified value is not a discrete integer, it may change when saved.
• Fan redundancy can have the following states:
Fully Redundant: The sensors display this status if all the fans in the system are present and are in a
non-failure state.
OR
Redundancy Lost: The sensors display this status whenever any system fan fails or is removed from
the chassis.
• If a system with memory redundancy enabled enters a "redundancy lost" state, it may not be apparent which
memory module is the cause. If you cannot determine which DIMM to replace, see the "switch to spare
memory detected" log entry in the ESM system log to find the memory module that failed.
• If you run Server Administrator while the system is in "OS Install Mode", memory may be reported
incorrectly by Server Administrator.
To avoid this issue, you must disable "OS Install Mode" before 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). Server Administrator uses these drivers to
perform its systems management functions. Depending on the system, Server Administrator loads
one or both of these drivers if required. These drivers have been released as open source under the
GNU General Public License v2.0. They are available in Linux kernels from kernel.org starting with
kernel 2.6.14.
Notes for Storage Management Service