Users Guide

• The action window displays the available settings and preferences for the managed system or the

Server Administrator Web Server.

Managed System Preferences

When you log in to a remote system, the Preferences home page defaults to the Node Configuration

window under the Preferences tab.

Click the Server Administrator object to enable or disable access to users with User or Power User

privileges. Depending on the user’s group privileges, the Server Administrator object action window may

have the Preferences tab.

Under the Preferences tab, you can:

• Enable or disable access to users with User or Power User privileges

• Select the format of alert messages

NOTE: The possible formats are traditional and enhanced. The default format is traditional,

which is the legacy format.

• Enables the Automatic Backup and clear ESM log entries.

By default, the feature is disabled. Enabling the feature allows you to create an automatic backup of

ESM Logs. After the backup is created, ESM logs of the Server Administrator and the SEL entries of

iDRAC/BMC are cleared. The process is repeated whenever the logs are full.

The backup is saved to :

Windows: <Install_root>\omsa\log\omsellog.xml

Linux and ESXi : <Install_root>/var/log/openmanage/omsellog.xml

NOTE: This feature is available only on 10th generation and 11th generation of PowerEdge

servers. The iDRAC provides automatic backup and SEL log clearing capabilities starting from

12th generation PowerEdge servers or later.

• Select or clear the severities of log entries logged into the operating systems main event log. Select

the possible values : Log Critical, Log Warning, or Log Informational

NOTE: By default all the options are selected. The OS logging filter feature is available when the

OS logging filter component is installed.

• Configure the Command Log Size

• Configure SNMP

Server Administrator Web Server Preferences

When you log in to manage the Server Administrator Web server, the Preferences home page defaults to

the User Preferences window under the Preferences tab.

Due to the separation of the Server Administrator Web server from the managed system, the following

options are displayed when you log in to the Server Administrator Web server, using the Manage Web

Server link:

• Web Server Preferences

• X.509 Certificate Management

For more information about accessing these features, see Server Administrator Services Overview.