Release Notes

User Notes for Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and VMware ESX
Operating Systems
• The OpenIPMI device driver used by Server Administrator will conflict with the Intel IMB device driver.
You must uninstall the IMB driver before installing Server Administrator.
• When Dell OpenManage Server Administrator is installed on a system, dependency issues related to RPMs
may occur. To resolve these issues, install the missing RPMs from
SYSMGMT/srvadmin/linux/RPMS/supportRPMS .
If the RPMs are not available in this directory, install these from the operating system media.
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• The USB arbitration service of VMWare ESX 4.1 makes the USB devices invisible to the Hypervisor. So,
when DUPs or the Inventory Collector runs on the MN, the partitions exposed as USB devices are not shown,
and it reaches the timeout after 15 to 20 minutes. This timeout occurs in the following cases:
When you start "DSM SA Shared Service" on the VMware ESX 4.1 managed node, it runs the
Inventory Collector. While the USB arbitration service is running, you must wait for 15 to 20
minutes for the Inventory collector to complete the execution before attempting to stop this service,
or uninstall Server Administrator.
When you manually run the Inventory Collector (invcol) on the VMware ESX 4.1 managed node
while the USB arbitration service is running, you must wait for 15 to 20 minutes before the
operations end. The invcol output file has the following:
<InventoryError lang="en">
<SPStatus result="false" module="MaserIE -i">
<Message> Inventory Failure: Partition Failure - Attach
partition has failed</Message>
</SPStatus><SPStatus result="false" module="MaserIE -i">
<Message>Invalid inventory results.</Message>
</SPStatus><SPStatus result="false">
To fix the issue, stop the USB arbitration service and run the DUPs, or Inventory Collector. Do the
following to stop the USB arbitration service:
1.
Use ps aux | grep usb to find out if the USB arbitration service is running.
2.
To stop the USB arbitration service from starting up at bootup, use chkconfig usbarbitrator off.
3.
Reboot the server after stopping the usbarbitrator to allow the DUPs and/or the Inventory
collector to run.
If you require the usbarbitor, enable it manually. To enable the usbarbitrator, run the command -
chkconfig usbarbitrator on . (373924)
User Notes for upgrade on supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and VMware
ESX Operating Systems
• Under some conditions with DKMS versions prior to version 2.0.9, device driver building may fail. This
may prevent Server Administrator from installing. You may see the following error message:
Building module:
cleaning build area....(bad exit status: 2)
make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.5-7.232-smp -C src KSP=/lib/modules/
2.6.5-7.232-smp/build MANDIR=%{_mandir}....(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel:
2.6.5-7.232-smp (x86_64)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/e1000/6.2.11/build/ for more information.