Command Line Interface Guide

Introduction 17
• System — Dell PowerEdge xx8x systems
• Operating system — Microsoft Windows Server 2003
•Browser — Mozilla Firefox 3.6
New Features
The added features are:
• Grouped BIOS attributes for configuring and reporting as per the system
BIOS on PowerEdge
yx2x systems.
• System and setup passwords set through OMSA. Once set, provide the
password for every BIOS attribute configuration.
• Licensed BIOS attributes (IPv6, Power budget, Dynamic DNS, and
Dedicated NIC) that are available only with the appropriate installed
license.
NOTE: Power profile, bootorder, and memorymode commands are not
supported on yx2x systems.
• Increased Automatic System Recovery (ASR) watchdog timer limit
(increased from 480 seconds to 720 seconds.)
• Four additional platform events for Internal SD Module.
• Primary and failover network selection available for remote access
(iDRAC7) NIC.
• Report on version for Power Supplies Unit (PSU) firmware.
• Short names for easier CLI parsing.
• Upgraded JRE Version (Version1.6 Update 30.)
• Power saving settings with the additional power saving modes in Manage
Physical Disk Power controller task.
• Multiple backplanes and multiple internal controllers on PoweEdge
yx2x
systems.
NOTE: Creating virtual disks spanning multiple backplanes configured with different
controllers is not supported. On selected Dell PowerEdge yx2x systems, use PERC H710
mini and H710P adapters as secondary controllers for multiple internal controller
configurations.
• Support for new controllers tasks, ability to convert to Non-RAID Disks
and convert to RAID Capable Disks, convert unconfigured Ready RAID
capable disks to Non-RAID disks and viceversa on Dell PERC H310 card.