Users Guide

following tabs, depending on the user's group privileges: Licensing, Properties, Shutdown, Logs, Alert Management, and Session
Management
Licensing
Subtabs: Information | Licensing
Under the Licensing sub tab, you can:
Set preferences to use Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) to import, export, delete, or replace the digital license of the
hardware.
View details of the device used. The details include status of the license, description of the license, entitlement ID and date of expiry of
the license.
NOTE: Server Administrator supports the licensing feature on the12th generation PowerEdge system onwards. The
feature is available only if the required minimum version of iDRAC, iDRAC 1.30.30, is installed.
NOTE: The feature is available only if the required minimum version of iDRAC is installed.
Properties
Subtabs: Health | Summary | Asset Information | Auto Recovery
Under the Properties tab, you can:
View the current health alert status for hardware and software components in the Main System Chassis/Main System object and
the Storage object.
View detailed summary information for all components in the system being monitored.
View and configure asset information for the system being monitored.
View and set the Automatic System Recovery (operating system watchdog timer) actions for the system being monitored.
NOTE:
Automatic System Recovery options may not be available if the operating system watchdog timer is enabled
in BIOS. To configure the auto recovery options, the operating system watchdog timer must be disabled.
NOTE: Automatic System Recovery actions may not run exactly per the time-out period (n seconds) when the
watchdog identifies a system that has stopped responding. The action execution-time ranges from n-h+1 to n+1
seconds, where n is the time-out period and h is the heart beat interval. The value of the heart beat interval is 7
seconds when n ≤ 30 and 15 seconds when n > 30.
NOTE: The functionality of the watchdog timer feature cannot be guaranteed when an uncorrectable memory event
occurs in the system DRAM Bank_1. If an uncorrectable memory event occurs in this location, the BIOS code
resident in this space may become corrupted. Because the watchdog feature uses a call to BIOS to affect the
shutdown or reboot behavior, the feature may not work properly. If this occurs, you must manually restart the
system. The watchdog timer can be set to a maximum of 720 seconds.
Shutdown
Subtabs: Remote Shutdown | Thermal Shutdown | Web Server Shutdown
Under the Shutdown tab, you can:
Configure the operating system shutdown and remote shutdown options
Set the thermal shutdown severity level to shut down your system in case a temperature sensor returns a warning or failure value.
NOTE:
A thermal shutdown occurs only when the temperature reported by the sensor goes preceding the
temperature threshold. A thermal shutdown does not occur when the temperature reported by the sensor goes
below the temperature threshold.
Shut down the DSM SA Connection Service (web server).
NOTE:
Server Administrator is still available through the command line interface (CLI) when the DSM SA Connection
Service is shut down. The CLI functions do not require the DSM SA Connection Service to be running.
Logs
Subtabs: Hardware | Alert | Command
Under the Logs tab, you can:
View the Embedded System Management (ESM) log or the System Event Log (SEL) for a list of all events related to your system's
hardware components. The status indicator icon next to the log name changes from normal status ( ) to noncritical status ( )
Server Administrator services
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