Server Administrator 8.0.
Release Type and Definition Server Administrator This document contains updated information for the Server Administrator User's Guide and any other technical documentation included with Server Administrator. NOTE: System Management software, including the Server Administrator (Server Administrator), is also available on the Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD.
Software Requirements • Supported operating system and web browser. • TCP/IP connection on the managed system and the remote system to facilitate remote system management. • Supported systems management protocol standard. For more information, see Supported Systems Management Protocol Standards. • The Server Administrator Remote Access Controller service requires remote access controller (RAC) to be installed on the managed system.
• Support for additional attributes and values in BIOS setup groups. For more details, see the Command Line Interface Guide at dell.com/openmanagemanuals. • This release provides fix for SSLv3 Poodle vulnerability. As part of this fix, OMSA will not allow SSLv3 connections. 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.
• 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.
Notes for Storage Management Service • Detailed information on the Storage Management Service is available in the Storage Management Service online Help. After installing and launching Server Administrator, you can access the Storage Management Service online Help by selecting the Storage or lower-level tree object and clicking the Help button on the global navigation bar. Notes for Remote Access Service • The remote access service is available on supported systems only in this release.
Issues for Server Administrator Running on All Supported Operating Systems • BITS176769: On any Dell server with processors without Hyper-Threading technology, Server Administrator displays the processor as Hyper Threading- capable on both GUI and CLI. • BITS176489: On any Blade server with Dell PowerEdge FX2 chassis, when ‘Management at Server Mode’ in CMC is set to either ‘Monitor’ or ‘Monitor or Manage', Server Administrator GUI and CLI does not display power supply redundancy information.
Administrator pages in English, go to your browser language preference page and change the language to English. • Log files saved from Server Administrator are saved in zip format. It is recommended that you open this zip file using WinZip. Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP embedded "Compressed (zipped) Folder" utility is not recommended. • Log files saved from Server Administrator are saved in zip format. It is recommended that you open this zip file using WinZip.
• On some systems, temperature probe values and settings are only supported for whole degrees, not tenths of a degree. On those systems, setting a fractional value for the minimum warning temperature threshold results in the set value being rounded off to the next whole number value. This behavior may cause the minimum warning threshold to have the same value as the minimum failure threshold.
The following is an example of the effect of this behavior: o On certain systems, the first time that the thresholds for a probe are changed after Server Administrator is installed; the current threshold values for that probe are saved as the default threshold values by writing the values to a configuration file. When "Set to Default" is performed after the first change of the thresholds, Server Administrator sets the threshold values to the values that were saved in the configuration file as the default.
o Delete the file keystore.db at \Dell\SysMgt\apachetomcat\conf\ o Rename the file keystore.db.bak at \Dell\SysMgt\apachetomcat\conf\to keystore.db On systems running Linux: • For 32-bit OS • Delete the keystore.db file at /opt/dell/srvadmin/lib/openmanage/apachetomcat/conf o Rename the keystore.db.bak at /opt/dell/srvadmin/lib/openmanage/apachetomcat/conf to keystore.db For 64-bit OS 3. • o o Delete the keystore.
Description: In a Microsoft Hyper-V environment, the Server Administrator Network page may indicate network adapters that are connected to a network and display Ethernet statistics but, the IP address is displayed as 'Unknown'. This is because Hyper-V virtualizes adapters that are bonded to its virtual switch. The Server Administrator only discovers physical network adapters and displays their IP addresses that are fully-controlled by the operating system and not by hypervisors.
Issues for Server Administrator Running on Microsoft Windows 2003 Operating Systems • You can ignore the following warning message: A provider, omprov, has been registered in the WMI namespace, Root\CIMV2\Dell, to use the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not impersonate user requests correctly.
Server Administrator Data Manager Service is marked as an interactive service. However, the system is configured to not allow interactive services. This service may not function properly." This change allows the DSM Server Administrator Data Manager Service to execute interactive applications properly for an Alert Action. Also, make sure the Interactive Services Detection service is running, to see the interface or prompt displayed by the interactive application.
• DF132894: The cfgDNSServer1 and cfgDNSServer2 properties of group cfgLanNetworking may be set to identical values while swapping addresses. Some performance may be lost temporarily during the swapping. The cfgLanNetworking group is configured using the "racadm config" command. • The Remote Access Controller uses FTP protocol to perform some of the Server Administrator commands. If a firewall is installed in the system, it may cause these commands to fail.
• Depending on your network and proxy configurations and whether you are using Mozilla browser, you may need to enter the exact IP address of the RAC controller you are trying to access in the "No Proxy for" field of your browser. Perform the following steps: 1. Open your Mozilla browser. 2. Click "Edit". 3. Click "Preferences". 4. Click "Advanced" in the left sidebar. 5. Click "Proxies" in the left sidebar. 6. Enter the RAC IP address in the "No Proxy for:" field. 7. Click "OK" and then close the browser.
• DF523827: On Citrix XenServer 6.0, 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. • 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. • BITS113585: Server Administrator does not log CPU or CMOS Battery Probe Alerts and does not send SNMP traps.
Limitations Known Limitations and Workarounds for Storage Management Service • With Chinese or Japanese language browser settings, using the Storage Management Service Advanced Create VDisk Wizard may occasionally result in text overflowing to the bottom of the side-by-side blue text boxes. • View slot occupancy report shows 4 HDD slots on backplanes with just two HDD slots for any server. • Physical disk clear operation is not available on PERC 8 family of controllers.
Configuration" task may report successful completion even when inconsistent virtual disks are present and have not been imported successfully. Solution: If the "Import Foreign Configuration" task is unable to import an inconsistent virtual disk, then the physical disks that belong to the virtual disk continue to display a "Foreign" state after the "Import Foreign Configuration" task completes.
Solution: To view the Fluid Cache details through CLI or GUI, connect to Fluid cache through CLI or GUI. o CLI Command to connect to Fluid Cache: omconfig storage fluid cache action=connect o GUI Command to connect to Fluid Cache: Although Fluid Cache details are not enumerated in GUI after system reboot, Fluid Cache component is enumerated in Storage component tree. Steps to connect: 1. Click on Fluid Cache component listed under storage tree. 2.
wizard, the GUI control only verifies the first available option under DHS, leaving the other options unverified even if it is selected. Resolution: The Dedicated Hot Spare assignment can be performed through the following, “System” --> “Storage” --> “Controller” --> “Virtual Disk” --> Under the respective virtual disk “Tasks” drop-down list, select “Assign/Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare”. • BITS172465: OMSA session logs out when trying to import secure VD by providing suggested passphrase.
1. On the Tools menu, click Internet options, and then click the Advanced tab. 2. In the Security section, select "Enable Integrated Windows Authentication" check box. 3. Click the Security tab, select the zone as "Trusted sites", click "Sites",add website to this zone.Click "Close". Click on Custom Level. In the User Authentication section, select "Automatic logon with current username and password",and then click "OK". 4. Restart Internet Explorer and launch Server Administrator using desktop icon.
o Remote Access -> Users o Alert Management -> Platform Events Following are the Server Administrator CLI commands for which the response time may have increased: o omreport chassis remoteaccess config=user o omreport system platformevents o omreport system pedestinations The amount of time varies depending on the hardware and operating system Firmware for PERC controllers Firmware for PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i Integrated, PERC 5/i Adapter, SAS 5/iR Integrated, SAS 5/iR Adapter, SAS 5/i Integrated, SAS
6Gbps SAS HBA 07.03.06.00 Internal Tape Adapter 07.03.06.00 PERC H310 Adapter 20.12.0-0004 PERC H310 Mini Monolithic 20.12.0-0004 PERC H310 Mini Blades 20.12.0-0004 PERC H710 Adapter 21.2.0-0007 PERC H710 Mini Blades 21.2.0-0007 PERC H710 Mini Monolithic 21.2.0-0007 PERC H710P Adapter 21.2.0-0007 PERC H710P Mini Blades 21.2.0-0007 PERC H710P Mini Monolithic 21.2.0-0007 PERC H810 Adapter 21.2.0-0007 PERC S110 3.0.0.0139 PERC S100 2.0.0-0162 PERC S300 2.0.
PERC 5/i Integrated 2.24.0.32 2.24.0.64 4.5.0.64 Native PERC 5/i Adapter 2.24.0.32 2.24.0.64 4.5.0.64 Native SAS 5/iR Integrated 1.28.03.01 1.28.03.01 1.28.03. 52 Native SAS 5/iR Adapter 1.28.03.01 1.28.03.01 1.28.03. 52 Native SAS 5/i Integrated 1.28.03.01 1.28.03.01 1.28.03. 52 Native SAS 5/E Adapter 1.28.03.01 1.28.03.01 1.28.03. 52 Native PERC 6/E Adapter 2.24.0.32 2.24.0.64 4.5.0.64 Native PERC 6/i Integrated 2.24.0.32 2.24.0.64 4.5.0.
PERC H710 Mini Monolithic 5.1.118.32 5.1.118.64 5.1.118.64 5.1.118.64 PERC H710P Adapter 5.1.118.32 5.1.118.64 5.1.118.64 5.1.118.64 PERC H710P Mini Blades 5.1.118.32 5.1.118.64 5.1.118.64 5.1.118.64 PERC H710P Mini Monolithic 5.1.118.32 5.1.118.64 5.1.118.64 5.1.118.64 PERC H810 Adapter 5.1.118.32 5.1.118.64 5.1.118.64 5.1.118.64 Internal Tape Adapter 2.0.35.10 2.0.35.10 2.0.35.10 Native PERC S100 2.0.0-0162 2.0.0-0162 2.0.0-0162 Not Applicable PERC S300 2.0.0-0162 2.0.
PERC H730 Mini Blades, PERC H730 Mini, PERC H830 Adaptor, PERC H330 Adaptor, PERC H330 Mini, PERC H330 Mini Blades, PERC H330 Embedded and 12Gbps SAS HBA. Controller Red Hat Linux Driver 6.5 Red Hat Linux 7.0 Driver VMware ESXi 5.x Driver Citrix XenServer 6.
PERC H200 Modular Native Native Not Applicable Native 6Gbps SAS HBA Native 5.2.220.
Mini Blades PERC H730 Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native PERC H330 Mini Blades Native Native Native Native Native PERC H330 Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Native Mini Monolithic PERC H830 Adapter PERC H330 Adapter Mini Monolithic PERC H330 Embedded 12Gbps SAS HBA Installation and Configuration Notes N/A
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