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
• Support for Java Runtime Environment 8 Update 112.
• SD card support for 32 GB and 64 GB.
NOTE: C6320P platform is not supported for OpenManage Server Administrator 8.5.
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 11th generation or later PowerEdge server, if conicting BIOS settings exist while conguring 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 congure Embedded SATA Controller to RAID and Boot Mode to UEFI simultaneously (UEFI does not
support RAID option), the conict prevents the BIOS conguration updates (at system reboot).
• On certain systems, user-dened 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 rmware as discrete integer values and scaled for
display. If the modied 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 nd 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)
Notes for Storage Management Service
Detailed information on the Storage Management Service is available in the Storage Management Service online help. After installing
and launching Server Administrator, you can access the Storage Management Service online help by selecting the Storage or lower-
level tree object and clicking the Help button on the global navigation bar.
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