Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- Server Administrator 8.5 Release Notes
- Release Type and Definition
- Importance
- Platform(s) Affected
- What is Supported
- What’s New
- Important Notes
- Known Issues for Server Administrator
- Issues of Server Administrator on VMware ESX Operating Systems
- Issues of Server Administrator on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems
- Issues of Server Administrator on all Linux Operating Systems
- Issues of Server Administrator on Microsoft Windows 2003 Operating Systems
- Issues of Server Administrator on All Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
- Issues of Server Administrator on Microsoft Windows 2008 Operating Systems
- Issues of Server Administrator on Microsoft Windows 2012 Operating Systems
- Issues of Server Administrator on All Supported Operating Systems
- Issues for Remote Access
- Issues of Server Administrator on all Operating Systems
- Known Issues and Workarounds for Storage Management Service
- Installation Prerequisites
- Installation Procedure
- Firmware for PERC controllers
- Microsoft Windows Drivers for PERC Controllers
- Linux Drivers for PERC Controllers
- Installation and Configuration Notes

• JIT-22805: Server Administrator does not recommend the upgrade to major versions of JRE. For more details, see the release
notes of Server Administrator (packaged with Server Administrator application) or at dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
• JIT-31814: OpenManage Server Administrator Cannot show the SNMP test trap destination addresses, when admin congured
through domain policy.
• JIT-36610/JIT-36599: In OpenManage Server Administrator slots page, the Dell “HBA330 Adapter” PERC card will be
enumerated as “12GB/s HBA internal” and Dell “HBA330 Mini” PERC card will be enumerated as “SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-
MPT SAS-3
Issues for Remote Access
NOTE: The Remote Access Service is supported on 11th generation of PowerEdge servers only. The following
subsections list the currently known issues regarding implementation and operation of your RAC and the Remote Access
Service in Server Administrator.
Issues of Server Administrator on all Operating Systems
• The Server Administrator user interface and commands related to local authentication enable are not applicable for RAC
rmware 3.20. The Active Directory authentication feature replaces the local operating system authentication feature in this
version of rmware. Due to this change, the following commands return errors:
– racadm localauthenable
– omcong rac authentication
• Due to uctuations in the watchdog timer, the Last Crash Screen may not be captured when the Automatic System Recovery is
set to a value of less than 30 seconds. To ensure the correct functioning of the Last Crash Screen feature, set the System
Reset Timer to at least 30 seconds.
• DF132894: The cfgDNSServer1 and cfgDNSServer2 properties of group cfgLanNetworking may be set to identical values while
swapping addresses. Some performance may be lost temporarily during the swapping. The cfgLanNetworking group is
congured using theracadm cong command.
• The remote access controller uses FTP protocol to perform some of the Server Administrator commands. If a rewall is installed
in the system, it may cause these commands to fail.
The following Server Administrator CLI commands use FTP protocol to communicate with the RAC:
– omcong rac uploadcert
– omcong rac generatecert
The following racadm commands use FTP protocol to communicate with the RAC:
– racadm sslcertupload
– racadm sslcsrgen
– racadm fwupdate
• If the RAC conguration is reset to factory defaults using the racadm racresetcfg command, the RAC conguration tab in Server
Administrator does not reect the reset conguration settings until the system reboots. Also, the RAC conguration page in
Server Administrator cannot be used to make any conguration changes until the system reboots.
• The RAC does not support local RAC user IDs with special characters. When adding a local RAC user, use only alphanumeric
characters for the user name.
• While the RAC is being reset, the Instrumentation Service cannot read sensor data for certain systems. As a result, the voltage,
temperature, and other probes may not be visible on the Server Administrator home page until the RAC has completed resetting.
• The RAC may not send traps when your system is locked up. To enable traps to be sent when the system is locked, congure the
watchdog timer using the Server Administrator GUI. On the GUI, click the "Properties" tab and ensure that Auto Recovery is
selected. The default value of theAction On Hung Operating System Detection setting is None.None indicates that detection
will not be performed.
• RAC rmware 2.0 and later does not support passwords with special characters (non- alphanumeric) only for RAC user IDs
logging in using the Web-based interface (with Local RAC Authentication). You cannot log on to RAC, if you created RAC user
IDs using previous versions of the rmware or using Server Administrator that is running version 2.0 rmware on the managed
system.
Use one of these methods to correct this issue:
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