Release Notes

• 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.
• If you close the browser using the Close button on the browser or log off from the operating system, the Server Administrator
session is not terminated. This session is listed in the Session Management page until the session time out occurs, or DSM SA
connection service is restarted, or the operating system is rebooted.
• 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 host name,
you must use the IP address of the target system in the browser URL to launch Server Administrator, as Host names with
underscores are not 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
• DF152755: 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.
• DF172125: 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:
a. Click Preferences. The Preferences page appears.
b. 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:
– 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 running the VMware ESXi operating system
is reset without a graceful shutdown before the changes to the configuration file are updated to the disk, the user- defined
thresholds become the default thresholds.
• DF315853: Some Server Administrator CLI commands, function properly only when run from the elevated console window. It is
recommended that you use the elevated console for running the CLI.
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