2018 - 05 Dell EMC OpenManage Release Notes Version 9.1.1 This document describes the new features, enhancements, and fixed issues in Server Administrator 9.1.
Previous Version 9.1 Importance RECOMMENDED: Dell recommends applying this update during your next scheduled update cycle. The update contains feature enhancements or changes that will help keep your system software current and compatible with other system modules (firmware, BIOS, drivers and software).
What’s new in this release The release highlights of Server Administrator and Storage Management are: • Server Administrator supports the following features: – Support for PowerEdge R840 and PowerEdge R940xa servers. • Supported operating systems: – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 – ESXi 6.7 • Supported web browsers: – Internet Explorer - 10, 11 – Google Chrome - 57, 58 – Safari - 10.
• On certain systems, user-defined 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 firmware as discrete integer values and scaled for display.
Issues of Server Administrator on VMware ESX Operating Systems • DF354388: Remote Server Administrator Web Server connection to a managed node hangs, if a redundant virtual disk containing syslog dumps fails. – If you configure the syslog to store logs on a remote virtual disc (VD), and remove the remote VD without reconfiguring the syslog to a valid location, the Server Administrator web server screen stops responding.
• JIT-57929: Server Administrator Linux installer, still carries install packages of RAC4 and RAC5 RPMs which are deprecated. • JIT-81903: The error messages are seen in /var/log/messages after a system reboot. However, there is no loss of functionality to the Server Administrator. "systemd-udevd[XXXX]: Process '/bin/sh -c '[ -x /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/dataeng.hotplug ] && /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/ dataeng.hotplug pci'' failed with exit code 1.
Issues of Server Administrator on All Microsoft Windows Operating Systems • Perform all Server Administrator CLI commands from a 32-bit Windows command prompt. You can access the 32-bit command prompt by clicking Start > Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt or by clicking Start > Run and then typing cmd.exe. Attempts to run the CLI commands from the DOS command command.com may generate unpredictable results.
• JIT-79866: On upgrade from previous version Server Administrator to 9.1.0, Custom preferences and Storage related alert actions settings will not be retained. These preferences will have to be set again after upgrade is successful. Issues of Server Administrator on Microsoft Windows 2008 Operating Systems • DF103661: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 - Alert Action > Execute Application For security reasons, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is configured to not to allow interactive services.
Issues of Server Administrator on All Supported Operating Systems • BITS107804: On PowerEdge R210 II and T110 II servers, clearing the Shutdown OS First check box and performing a reboot using the ‘Reboot’ option does not reboot the servers. After performing these steps if you refresh the Page, the options on the Remote Shutdown page are not displayed.
d Type: omconfig system webserver action=start • A temperature drop below a minimum failure threshold does not cause a system reset even if this alert action is set. • Clicking the Back and Refresh buttons on the browser may not display the correct page regarding the Server Administrator component tree, tabs, tab menus, or help, as Server Administrator has been designed with limited functionality to reduce overhead.
• 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.
• c Rename the keystore.db.bak at /opt/dell/srvadmin/lib64/openmanage/apache-tomcat/conf to keystore.db Start the Web server. • BITS078118: On 12th generation of PowerEdge servers with specific versions of iDRAC, you cannot set the platform event alert actions (reboot, shut down, and so on) through Server Administrator. Set the alert actions for the events through iDRAC GUI. • BITS144583: On Mozilla Firefox 21 or later, the Quit browser option does not work after logging out from Server Administrator.
– racadm localauthenable – omconfig rac authentication NOTE: The following packages will be deprecated from DellEMC Server Administrator current release (9.1.0): a Srvadmin-racadm4. b Srvadmin-racadm5. • Due to fluctuations 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.
d Click Advanced in the left sidebar. e Click Proxies in the left sidebar. f Enter the RAC IP address in the No Proxy for: field. g Click OK and then close the browser. • To view the RAC Web-based interface when using Mozilla 1.6, you must configure your cookie settings to Enable all cookies. • To enable all cookies, go to the menu options and click Edit > Preferences > Privacy & Security > Cookies, and then select Enable all cookies.
• With the following wsman rpm versions getting carried in SLES12 OS,OMSA DWS does not work. Update these rpms having same or later versions from SUSE openwsman-server-2.4.11-2.18.x86_64.rpm ,libwsman1-2.4.11-2.18.x86_64.rpm, libwsman_clientpp1-2.4.11-2.18.x86_64.rpm • On De-branded Servers , “Dell EMC” text is displayed on header of the login page, About page, command log and Email template along with the product name. Dell EMC OpenManage Release Notes Version 9.1.
Dell EMC OpenManage Release Notes Version 9.1.1 The following section describes the issues and workaround in Server Administrator Storage Management. Known Issues and Workarounds for Storage Management Service • With Chinese or Japanese language browser settings, using the Storage Management Service Advanced Create Virtual Disk Wizard may occasionally result in text overflowing to the bottom of the side-by-side blue text boxes.
• An error message may not appear when Import Foreign Configuration task is not successful. • Description: The Import Foreign Configuration task can only import virtual disks that have consistent data. A virtual disk with inconsistent data cannot be imported. When importing multiple virtual disks in a single operation, however, the Import Foreign Configuration task may report successful completion even when inconsistent virtual disks are present and have not been imported successfully.
• BITS124349: Firmware version for SAS 9207_8e, SAS 9206_16e, and SAS 9300_8e, will not be displayed on the Storage Management GUI and CLI. • BITS123999: SAS 9300_8e is not supported on systems running the VMware ESXi operating system. • BITS128355: The slot occupancy report displays single backplane ID and backplane name in the Storage Management GUI and CLI.
• • JIT-72304: Able to assign lesser capacity physical disk as a DHS to the virtual disk created with physical disk having higher capacity. • JIT-16919 (BITS270856): On Precision 7910 running a client operating system (for example, Windows 8.1 x64), the PERC 9.3 driver version is displayed as outdated and a yellow bang is shown on such hardware configurations. This issue does not cause any functionality limitation.
• JIT-72304 : Able to assign lesser capacity physical disk as a DHS to the virtual disk created with physical disk having higher capacity. • JIT-80079: If Prepare to remove operation is executed on a Non-RAID PCIe-SSD physical disk, the bus protocol for the virtual disk associated with that physical disk, changes to SATA from PCIe-SSD.
g • • 1 In Miscellaneous, select the Allow META REFRESH radio button. 2 In Active Scripting, select the Enable radio button. 3 Under Active scripting, select the Allow scripting of Microsoft web browser controls radio button. Click OK and restart your browser. To allow Single Sign-on for Server Administrator, perform the following steps: a In Internet Explorer, navigate to Tools. b Click Internet Options. c Click the Security tab. d Select Trusted sites. e Click the Custom Level button.
• On PowerEdge 10th generation of PowerEdge servers or later, the response time for some components of the Server Administrator GUI and CLI has increased to several seconds as Server Administrator does not cache some of the DRAC/iDRAC data. The data is retrieved from the DRAC/iDRAC when you request for it.
Controller Firmware/BIOS PERC H700 Modular 12.10.6-0001 PERC H200 Adapter 07.03.06.00 PERC H200 Integrated 07.03.06.00 PERC H200 Modular 07.03.06.00 PERC H200 Embedded 07.03.06.00 6Gbps SAS HBA 07.03.06.00 Internal Tape Adapter 07.03.06.00 PERC H310 Adapter 20.13.2-0004 PERC H310 Mini Monolithic 20.13.2-0004 PERC H310 Mini Blades 20.13.2-0004 PERC H710 Adapter 21.3.2-0005 PERC H710 Mini Blades 21.3.2-0005 PERC H710 Mini Monolithic 21.3.2-0005 PERC H710P Adapter 21.3.
Controller Firmware/BIOS PERC H730 Mini 25.2.1.0011 Blades 25.4.0.0017 PERC H730 Mini 25.4.0.0017 PERC H830 Adapter 25.4.0.0017 PERC H330 Adapter 25.4.0.0017 PERC H330 Mini 25.4.0.0017 PERC H330 Mini Blades 25.4.0.0017 PERC H330 Embedded 25.4.0.0017 HBA 330 Adapter 09.17.20.07 HBA 330 Mini 09.17.20.07 FD33XD-PERC Dual 25.4.0.0017 FD33XS-PERC Single 25.4.0.0017 12Gbps SAS HBA 09.17.20.07 Table 4. Firmware for BOSS-S1 controller Controller Firmware/BIOS BOSS-S1 2.3.13.
Controller Windows Server 2012 Driver Windows Server 2012 R2 Driver Windows Server 2016 Driver SAS 6/iR Integrated 1.28.03.01 1.28.03.01 Native SAS 6/iR Adapter 1.28.03.01 1.28.03.01 Native SAS 6/iR Modular 1.28.03.01 1.28.03.01 Native LSI 1020 on a PowerEdge 1600SC Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable LSI 1030 on a PowerEdge 1750 Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable PERC H800 Adapter 4.31.1.32 4.31.1.64 Native PERC H700 Integrated 4.31.1.32 4.31.1.
Controller Windows Server 2012 Driver Windows Server 2012 R2 Driver Windows Server 2016 Driver PERC S300 2.0.0-0162 2.0.0-0162 Not Applicable PERC S110 3.0.0.0134 3.0.0.0134 Not Applicable PERC S130 4.2.0-0009 4.2.0-0009 4.2.0-0009 PERC H730P Adapter 6.600.55.00 6.600.55.00 6.603.07.00 PERC H730P Mini Blades 6.600.55.00 6.600.55.00 6.603.07.00 PERC H730P Mini 6.600.55.00 6.600.55.00 6.603.07.00 PERC H730P Slim 6.600.55.00 6.600.55.00 6.603.07.00 PERC H730 Adapter 6.600.55.
Linux Drivers for PERC Controllers 6/E Adapter, PERC 6/i Integrated, PERC 6/i Adapter, SAS 6/iR Integrated, SAS 6/iR Adapter, SAS 6/int.
Controller Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux VMware 6.9 Driver 7.4 Driver vSphere 6.5 U1 Driver VMware vSphere 6.0 U3 Driver SUSE Linux 11 SUSE Linux 12 UBUNTU SP4 SP3 16.04.
Controller Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux VMware 6.9 Driver 7.4 Driver vSphere 6.5 U1 Driver VMware vSphere 6.0 U3 Driver SUSE Linux 11 SUSE Linux 12 UBUNTU SP4 SP3 16.04.
Controller Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux VMware 6.9 Driver 7.4 Driver vSphere 6.5 U1 Driver VMware vSphere 6.0 U3 Driver SUSE Linux 11 SUSE Linux 12 UBUNTU SP4 SP3 16.04.
