Release Notes

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 11th 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
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-failed state.
• Redundancy Lost - The sensors display this status whenever any system fan fails or is
removed from the chassis.
• If a system with memory redundancy enabled enters a "redundancy lost" state, it may
not be clear which memory module caused it. If you cannot determine which DIMM
to replace, see the "switch to spare memory detected" log entry in the ESM system
log to find the memory module that failed.
• 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 to a blade are 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)