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On a Windows 2008 R2 managed node, a valid CA signed certificate is required to create compatibility
mode WinRM Listener. You cannot create a compatibility mode listener with a self-signed certificate.
Issue 15: DF165588: Blank page is displayed after the browser is refreshed using <F5> or by clicking the
browser "Refresh" button.
Server Administrator UI may display a blank page after the browser is refreshed, using <F5> or by clicking
the browser "Refresh" button in Internet Explorer Version 7.0. This is a known issue and Microsoft has
provided an article and fix. The Knowledge Base article number is KB933006 and the fix is provided as
security update 933566 (MS07-033):Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer.
Issue 16: DF319132: Set operation in Server Administrator is blocked if a single sign-on is used to log on.
Internet Explorer 8 has a new security feature called "Loopback security check" which prevents NTLM-
based authentication from the local machine. This feature blocks users from performing any set operation
in Server Administrator if they are logged in using single sign-on (SSO), (clicking the Server Administrator
desktop icon) on Internet Explorer 8.
Issue 17: DF380725: On Internet Explorer or Firefox Web browsers, you cannot attach files to an e-mail if
the filename contains non-ASCII letters.
To attach files to an e-mail, rename files to contain ASCII characters.
Issue 18: On 12G servers, Server Administrator displays the Embedded Systems Management (ESM) or
hardware logs. However, when the maximum limit for number of logs that can be recorded is reached, the
existing oldest logs are overwritten. But for 11G servers or below, when the maximum limit is reached, the
information logging is stopped.
Issue 19: DF523827: On Citrix XenServer 6.1, if the Alert on Console alert action is configured from the
Server Administrator CLI or GUI, the alert message may not be displayed in a readable format.
Issue 20: DF530134: On VMware ESX 4.1 managed node, while USB arbitration service is running, Inventory
Collector does not respond while stopping the Server Administrator services.
To resolve this issue, stop the USB arbitration service and run the Inventory Collector.
To stop the USB arbitration service:
1. Run the “ps aux|grep usb” command to check if the USB arbitration service is running.
2. Run the “chkconfig usbarbitrator off” command to prevent the USB arbitration service from
starting during boot.
3. After the USB arbitrator service is stopped, reboot the server to allow the Inventory collector to
run.
Issue 21: DF520449: On all versions of the ESX, the following USB connection error messages are generated.
These messages can be ignored.
The following is a typical message:
Vendor: iDRAC Model: MAS022 Rev: 1.00