Owner's Manual

o 12 Gbps SAS HBA
o Controller mode enumeration (RAID and HBA)
 Deprecated support for SNMP set feature.
NOTE: For the list of supported operating systems and Dell servers, see the Dell Systems
Software Support Matrix in the required version of OpenManage Software at
dell.com/openmanagemanuals .
NOTE: For more information about the features introduced in this release, see the
Server Administrator context-sensitive online Help.
Important Notes
Notes for Instrumentation Service
 On certain systems, user-defined thresholds set under Server Administrator become the
default thresholds after uninstalling Server Administrator. If 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.
 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.
Redundancy Lost - The sensors display this status whenever any system fan fails or is
removed from the chassis.
 If a system with enabled memory redundancy enters a "redundancy lost" state, it may not
be clear which memory module caused it. To find the memory module that failed, see the
"switch to spare memory detected" log entry in the ESM system log.
 If you run Server Administrator when the system is in "OS Install Mode", it may report the
memory incorrectly. To avoid this issue, you must disable "OS Install Mode" before
running the application.
 If you have to uninstall and reinstall the operating system SNMP service, then reinstall
Server Administrator, 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: Systems - Management Base Driver (dcdbas) and BIOS Update Driver
(dell_rbu). Server Administrator uses these drivers to perform the systems management
functions. Depending on the system, the application loads one or both of these drivers.
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.
 CMC USB ports attached with blade is not enumerated by Server Administrator.
 Except for AC power cord traps, SNMP traps for server instrumentation are not generated
when the state of the device sensor changes from unknown to normal.
 While migrating the chassis of a PowerEdge M520, M620, or M820 server running
Windows operating system from M1000e to VRTX chassis, reboot the server after the new
drivers are detected and installed. If not, the DSM SA Data Manager service crashes on
startup and OMSA fails.(BITS125071)