Release Notes

• If you change the operating system Time Zone to a new time zone, Server Administrator session
management does not display the time in the new time zone specified. Restart Server
Administrator to display the accurate time for the time zone in the Session Management page.
• DF78425: The Server Administrator Auto Recovery feature may execute the configured action
before the time interval when the system is under heavy stress.
The Auto Recovery feature can be set to execute an action (For example, system reboot) to recover
a hung system. Since the Auto Recovery timer is now an application-level timer instead of a kernel-
level timer, heavy resource stress on the system may result in an inaccurate measurement of a
short keep alive interval (less than 120 seconds), and the configured action may be triggered. The
issue is more prevalent in systems that have only one CPU with hyper-threading
unsupported/disabled or systems that are subjected to persistent stressful conditions such as,
resource depletion and CPU running at 100% usage with significantly more threads than normal
usage.
The Auto Recovery feature is not enabled by default. If the Auto Recovery feature has been
enabled, increase the System Reset Timer value to at least 120 seconds.
• Using the Internet Explorer browser, if you install Server Administrator on a system that includes an
underscore in its hostname, you must use the IP address of the target system in the browser URL to
launch Server Administrator, as Hostnames with underscores arenot supported. For example,
(assuming Server Administrator is listening on port 1311): https://192.168.2.3:1311.
For more information, see the following article on the: Microsoft website
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312461
• DF 152755: The Server Administrator GUI does not respond when the alerts log has many events. If
the Alert Log contains several entries and if you try to navigate to another page, the Server
Administrator GUI may take about 30 seconds to display the content.
• DF 172125: Power monitoring probes are displayed on certain systems that do not support power
monitoring. On certain systems that do not support power monitoring, Server Administrator
reports the two platform event filters related to a power monitoring as "System Power Probe
Warning" and "System Power Probe Failure". These two filters are not supported on these systems.
That is, you can view and configure these filters, but no action is taken.
• DF185770: Primary User Telephone Number does not accept symbols. On Server Administrator,
under Asset Information->System Information->Primary User Telephone Number configuration
allows only alphanumeric characters.
• The selection of default option for the front panel LCD in Server Administrator displays the Model
Name whereas the default is a Service Tag on the physical LCD.
• If Server Administrator does not respond or is locked to your selections on the component tree,
perform the following steps:
1. Click “Preferences”. The Preferences page appears.
2. Click “Server Administrator”. The items on the front page may respond to your click.
• DF277439: Persistence of Configuration and Log File Changes in VMware ESXi On systems running
the VMware ESXi operating system, the file system is ramdisk. Modifications made to the files within
the file system are generally not persistent across reboots, with the exception of designated
configuration and log files. These files are updated to the disk periodically and on system
shutdown. If the system is reset without a graceful shutdown before the updated to the designated
configuration are made and before log files are updated to the disk, the changes are lost.
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. If the system