Release Notes
● If Internet Explorer prompts you to Work Offline, Connect, or Try Again, always select Connect or Try Again. Do not
select Work Offline.
● In Internet Explorer, on the menu bar, click File and clear the Work Offline option. When Work Offline is selected, a check
mark is displayed to the left of the option on the File menu.
● If Internet Explorer prompts you to Work Offline, Connect, or Try Again, always select Connect or Try Again. Do not
select Work Offline.
● While setting dates in the Asset Information section of the Server Administrator home page, the current time is appended
to the date. While setting dates with the CLI, the appended time is noon.
● On some systems, temperature probe values and settings are only supported for whole degrees, not tenths of a degree. On
those systems, setting a fractional value for the minimum warning temperature threshold results in the set value being
rounded off to the next whole number value. This behavior may cause the minimum warning threshold to have the same
value as the minimum failure threshold.
● If you close the browser using the Close button on the browser or log off from the operating system, the Server
Administrator session is not terminated. This session is listed in the Session Management page until the session time out
occurs, or DSM SA connection service is restarted, or the operating system is rebooted.
● If you change the operating system Time Zone to a new time zone, Server Administrator session management does not
display the time in the new time zone specified. Restart Server Administrator to display the accurate time for the time zone
in the Session Management page.
● DF78425: The Server Administrator Auto Recovery feature may execute the configured action before the time interval when
the system is under heavy stress.
The Auto Recovery feature can be set to execute an action (For example, system reboot) to recover a hung system. Since
the Auto Recovery timer is now an application-level timer instead of a kernel-level timer, heavy resource stress on the
system may result in an inaccurate measurement of a short keep alive interval (less than 120 seconds), and the configured
action may be triggered. The issue is more prevalent in systems that have only one CPU with hyper-threading unsupported/
disabled or systems that are subjected to persistent stressful conditions such as, resource depletion and CPU running at
100% usage with significantly more threads than normal usage.
The Auto Recovery feature is not enabled by default. If the Auto Recovery feature has been enabled, increase the System
Reset Timer value to at least 120 seconds.
● Using the Internet Explorer browser, if you install Server Administrator on a system that includes an underscore in its host
name, you must use the IP address of the target system in the browser URL to launch Server Administrator, as Host names
with underscores are not supported. For example, (assuming Server Administrator is listening on port 1311): https://
192.168.2.3:1311.
For more information, see the following article on the: Microsoft website http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312461
● DF152755: The Server Administrator GUI does not respond when the alerts log has many events. If the Alert Log contains
several entries and if you try to navigate to another page, the Server Administrator GUI may take about 30 seconds to
display the content.
● DF172125: Power monitoring probes are displayed on certain systems that do not support power monitoring. On certain
systems that do not support power monitoring, Server Administrator reports the two platform event filters related to a
power monitoring as System Power Probe Warning and System Power Probe Failure. These two filters are not
supported on these systems. That is, you can view and configure these filters, but no action is taken.
● 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.
● If Server Administrator does not respond or is locked to your selections on the component tree, perform the following steps:
1. Click Preferences. The Preferences page appears.
2. Click Server Administrator. The items on the front page may respond to your click.
● DF277439: Persistence of Configuration and Log File Changes in VMware ESXi On systems running the VMware ESXi
operating system, the file system is ramdisk. Modifications made to the files within the file system are generally not
persistent across reboots, with the exception of designated configuration and log files. These files are updated to the disk
periodically and on system shutdown. If the system is reset without a graceful shutdown before the updated to the
designated configuration are made and before log files are updated to the disk, the changes are lost.
The following is an example of the effect of this behavior:
○ On certain systems, the first time that the thresholds for a probe are changed after Server Administrator is installed; the
current threshold values for that probe are saved as the default threshold values by writing the values to a configuration
file. When Set to Default is performed after the first change of the thresholds, Server Administrator sets the threshold
values to the values that were saved in the configuration file as the default. If the system running the VMware ESXi
operating system is reset without a graceful shutdown before the changes to the configuration file are updated to the
disk, the user- defined thresholds become the default thresholds.
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