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To improve security, Microsoft provides the capability to encrypt files using EFS. Note that OMSA will
not function if its dependent files are encrypted.
• Server Administrator GUI and CLI Response Time
On Dell PowerEdge x9xx and later systems, the response time for some parts of the Server
Administrator GUI and CLI has increased to several seconds as Server Administrator no longer caches
some of the DRAC/iDRAC data. The data must be retrieved from the DRAC/iDRAC when you request for
it.
Following are the Server Administrator GUI pages whose response time may have increased:
- Server Administrator home page on log in
- Remote Access -> Users
- Alert Management -> Platform Events
Following are the Server Administrator CLI commands whose response time may have increased:
- 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
Notes for Instrumentation Service
• On xx1x systems, if conflicting BIOS settings exist while configuring BIOS setup options through Server
Administrator, the update attempt may fail at system reboot and none of the BIOS setup options may
be 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 updates to any BIOS
configuration (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 the application, the changed threshold value becomes the default threshold value.
• While 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.