Release Notes

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. For more information on the
software and hardware requirements, see the relevant Remote Access Controller
User’s Guide.
NOTE: The RAC software is installed as part of the Typical Setup installation option
provided the managed system meets all of the RAC installation prerequisites.
• The Server Administrator Storage Management Service requires Server Administrator
to be installed on the managed system. For more information on the software and
hardware requirements, see the Server Administrator Storage Management User’s
Guide.
• Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) version 3.1 or later.
NOTE: Server Administrator software detects the MSI version on your system. If the version
is earlier than 3.1, the prerequisite checker prompts you to upgrade to MSI version 3.1. After
upgrading the MSI to version 3.1, you may have to reboot the system to install other
software applications such as Microsoft SQL Server.
What’s New
The release highlights of Server Administrator is:
•
Support only for PowerEdge R530xd and PowerEdge R930
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 Server Administrator
On 12th generation or later PowerEdge server with iDRAC7 1.30.30 and later versions, you
can set the Platform Event Destination as IPv4, IPv6, or FQDN.
Notes for Instrumentation Service
• On 11
th
generation or later PowerEdge server, if conflicting BIOS settings exist while
configuring BIOS setup options through Server Administrator, the update attempt
may fail at system reboot and none of the BIOS setup options may be updated.
• For example, when you configure Embedded SATA Controller to RAID and Boot
Mode to UEFI simultaneously (UEFI does not support RAID option), the conflict
prevents the BIOS configuration updates (at system reboot).
• 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