Users Guide

Storage Management Service
The Storage Management Service provides storage management information in an integrated graphical view.
NOTE: For more information about the Storage Management Service, see the Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator Storage Management User's Guide at dell.com/support/manuals.
Instrumentation Service
The Instrumentation Service provides rapid access to detailed fault and performance information gathered by industry-
standard systems management agents and allows remote administration of monitored systems, including shutdown,
startup, and security.
Remote Access Controller
The Remote Access Controller provides a complete remote system management solution for systems equipped with the
Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC) or Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)/Integrated Dell Remote Access
Controller (iDRAC) solution. The Remote Access Controller provides remote access to an inoperable system, allowing
you to get the system up and running as quickly as possible. The Remote Access Controller also provides an alert
notification when a system is down and allows you to remotely restart the system. Additionally, the Remote Access
Controller logs the probable cause of system crashes and saves the most recent crash screen.
Logs
Server Administrator displays logs of commands issued to or by the system, monitored hardware events, and system
alerts. You can view logs on the home page, print or save them as reports, and send them by e-mail to a designated
service contact.
What Is New In This Release
The release highlights of OpenManage Server Administrator are:
• Availability of OMSA on supported 64-bit Windows operating systems.
NOTE: On systems prior to 12G , OMSA (64–bit) does not support information collection for DRAC5 using
SNMP and does not display few of the DRAC5 information on OMSA GUI and CLI.
• Added support for DIMM ranking, in memory module. For more information, see Memory.
• Added support for granular install options on systems running Windows operating systems. For more
information, see Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Installation Guide .
• Added support for displaying the license details of the installed hardware devices including the iDRAC license.
For more information, see System/Server Module Properties.
• Added support for viewing and selecting the format for alert messages. The enhanced alert messages, available
in iDRAC7, is introduced in OMSA. For more information, see Managed System Preferences.
• Improved online help interface with Search capabilities for OMSA.
• Added support for the following features in Storage Management:
– Tape drive report that helps to enumerate all the supported tape drives connected to the server.
– Physical disk firmware report on the Graphical User Interface (GUI) that helps users to identify the disks
for which a new firmware version is available. You can generate this report at controller or system level
to get a consolidated information of the firmware versions of all physical disks attached to the server.
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