Users Guide

Set up your user preferences:
1. Click Preferences on the global navigation bar.
The Preferences home page is displayed.
2. Click General Settings.
3. To add a preselected email recipient, type the email address of your designated service contact in the Mail To: eld, and click
Apply.
NOTE: Click E-mail ( ) in any window to send an e-mail message with an attached HTML le of the window to
the designated email address.
NOTE: The Web Server URL is not retained if you restart Server Administrator service or the system where Server
Administrator is installed. Use the omcong command to re-enter the URL.
Webserver preferences
Perform the following steps to set up your webserver preferences:
1. Click Preferences on the global navigation bar.
The Preferences home page appears.
2. Click General Settings.
3. The Server Preferences window, set options as necessary.
• The Session Timeout (minutes) feature can be used to set a limit on the amount of time that a Server Administrator
session remains active. Select Enable, allows Server Administrator to time out if there is no user interaction for a specied
number of minutes. Users whose session times out must log in again to continue. Select Disable, disables the Server
Administrator Session Timeout (minutes) feature.
• The HTTPS Port eld species the port for Server Administrator. The default secure port for Server Administrator is 1311.
NOTE: Changing the port number to an invalid or in-use port number may prevent other applications or browsers
from accessing Server Administrator on the managed system. For a list of default ports, see the Server
Administrator Installation Guide available at dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
• The IP Address to Bind to eld species the IP addresses for the managed system that Server Administrator binds to when
starting a session. Select All to bind to all IP addresses applicable for your system. Select Specic to bind to a specic IP
address.
NOTE: Changing the IP Address to Bind to value to a value other than All may prevent other applications or
browsers from accessing Server Administrator on the managed system.
• The Mail To eld species the email addresses to which you want to send emails about updates by default. You can
congure multiple email addresses and use a comma to separate each one.
• The SMTP Server Name (or IP Address) and DNS Sux for SMTP Server elds specify your company or organization's
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and domain name server (DNS) sux. To enable Server Administrator to send emails,
type the IP address and DNS sux for the SMTP Server for your company or organization in the appropriate elds.
NOTE: For security reasons, your company or organization might not allow emails to be sent through the SMTP
server to outside accounts.
• The Command Log Size eld species the largest le size in MB for the command log le.
NOTE: This eld appears only when you log in to manage the Server Administrator Web Server.
• The Support Link eld species the URL for the business entity that provides support for your managed system.
• The Custom Delimiter eld species the character used to separate the data elds in the les created using the Export
button. The ; character is the default delimiter. Other options are!, @, #, $, %, ^, *, ~, ?, |, and, .
• The SSL Cipher eld species a secure connection between the web server and the browser. Choose the ciphers that
support the web server while conguring. The connection service does not start if an invalid cipher suite is set. By default,
the following are the cipher suite values:
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,
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