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: field, and click Apply.
NOTE: Click E-mail ( ) in any window to send an e-mail message with an attached HTML file 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 omconfig 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 specified 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 field specifies 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 field specifies 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 Specific to bind to a specific 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 field specifies the email addresses to which you want to send emails about updates by default. You can configure
multiple email addresses and use a comma to separate each one.
• The SMTP Server Name (or IP Address) and DNS Suffix for SMTP Server fields specify your company or organization's
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and domain name server (DNS) suffix. To enable Server Administrator to send emails, type
the IP address and DNS suffix for the SMTP Server for your company or organization in the appropriate fields.
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 field specifies the largest file size in MB for the command log file.
NOTE:
This field appears only when you log in to manage the Server Administrator Web Server.
• The Support Link field specifies the URL for the business entity that provides support for your managed system.
• The Custom Delimiter field specifies the character used to separate the data fields in the files created using the Export button.
The ; character is the default delimiter. Other options are!, @, #, $, %, ^, *, ~, ?, |, and, .
• The SSL Cipher field specifies a secure connection between the web server and the browser. Choose the ciphers that support
the web server while configuring. 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_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
,TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,
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