Release Notes

User Notes for Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux,

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware ESX

Operating Systems

• The OpenIPMI device driver that is used by Server Administrator conflicts with the Intel IMB device driver. Uninstall the IMB driver

before installing Server Administrator.

• When Server Administrator is installed on a system, dependency issues that are related to RPMs may occur. To resolve the issues,

install the missing RPMs from SYSMGMT/srvadmin/linux/RPMS/supportRPMS. If the RPMs are not available in this directory,

install them from the operating system media. (341495)

• Conflicting version requirements for libsmbios library Server Administrator depends on libsmbios. On Linux operating system

variants, if there is a mismatch in the version requirement of libsmbios, installing Server Administrator results in warnings. Dell EMC

recommends uninstalling libsmbios versions (and the dependent software) before installing Server Administrator.

• On a Linux Operating Systems with nautilus file manager—Gnome Desktop Environment—launching Server Administrator using the

desktop icon displays a pop-up window, Untrusted application launcher. The behavior is because of vulnerability fix mentioned in

CVE-2017-14604. It occurs only when the Server Administrator is launched for the first time by using the desktop icon. Click Trust and

Launch to proceed with launching Server Administrator.

• As per PCR-732, systems with Linux operating system, RPMs, and web packs are signed with RSA/SHA512 algorithm.

• On RedHat Enterprise Linux Server operating systems, installing or removing Server Administrator SELinux policy, srvadmin-

selinux when Server Administrator services are running causes the services to restart.

Known Issues and Workarounds

Issue description: When RACADM (srvadmin-idracadm8 package) is installed on an Ubuntu VM with OM930 and above, the installation

is incomplete with the following error message: Job for instsvcdrv.service failed because the control process exited with error code. see

"systemctl status instsvcdrv.service" and "journal -xe" for details. dkpg: error processing package srvadmin-hapi (--configure): Installed

srvadmin-hapi package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing:

srvadmin-hapi

NOTE:

Local RACADM does not work with VM.

Resolution: To resolve this issue, and to make remote RACADM functional do the following:

1. chmod +x /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/racadm-wrapper-idrac7

2. ln -s /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/racadm-wrapper-idrac7 /bin/racadm

Known Issues on Microsoft Windows operating systems

Issue description: On Microsoft Windows operating system, SNMP walk stops working in a 32-bit to 64-bit upgrade installation.

Issue description: SNMP MIB walk does not display any information in an upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit version of OpenManage 9.1.

Resolution: To resolve the issue, add this registry entry to the windows registry and restart OS SNMP service

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP\Parameters\ExtensionAgents]

"SysMgmtDataEngine"="SOFTWARE<\\Dell Computer Corporation\\OpenManage\\DataEngine\\SNMP Agent\

\CurrentVersion>".

Issue description: (JIT-80450) On Microsoft Windows operating system, in an upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit, if SysMgmtx64.msi is

directly double-clicked and launched, upgrade fails with a rollback.

Resolution: To avoid the failure, use setup.exe or run SysMgmtx64.msi with elevated rights (run as Administrator).

Issue description: If the uninstall operation is aborted, some of the Server Administrator component tree objects may not be displayed.

Resolution: To resolve this issue, Server Administrator installation must be repaired. Go to Start > Settings > Control panel > Add

Remove Programs. Select Repair on the Server Administrator installation.

Issue description: If the OpenManage 9.1 upgrade installation from 32-bit to 64-bit fails, perform the following steps:

Dell EMC OpenManage Installation and Management Release Notes Version 9.3