###################################################################### DELL(TM) OPENMANAGE(TM) SERVER ADMINISTRATOR VERSION 5.4 README ###################################################################### NOTE: This readme provides information for Dell OpenManage Server Administrator version 5.4. This file contains updated information for your "Dell OpenManage Server Administrator User's Guide" and any other technical documentation included with Server Administrator.
determine if it applies to your system. The update contains changes that impact only certain configurations and provides new features that may or may not apply to your environment. ###################################################################### MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ###################################################################### This section provides information about the minimum requirements for installing and using Server Administrator.
* Server Administrator supports SSL 3.0 exclusively. ====================================================================== SUPPORTED RAC FIRMWARE ====================================================================== * iDRAC firmware version 1.0 or greater is required for systems installed with iDRAC. * DRAC 5 firmware version 1.0 or greater is required for systems installed with DRAC 5. * On systems installed with a DRAC 4/I and DRAC 4/P firmware version 1.0 or greater is required.
This section provides information to help enhance your experience with Server Administrator, in particular, implementations and environments. * Server Administrator uses port 1311 as the default port. Port 1311 is a registered port number of Dell Inc. If another application is configured to run on port 1311 before Server Administrator is installed, the DSM SA Connection Service will not start after installation. Before you install Server Administrator, ensure that port 1311 is not being used.
4. Select "Trusted sites". 5. Click the "Custom Level" button. 6. Under "User Authentication", select the "Automatic Logon with current username and password" radio button. Press ‘OK’ to exit the "Custom Level" window. 7. Now select the "Advanced" tab, and under "HTTP 1.1 settings", make sure "Use HTTP 1.1" is checked. 8. Select "Trusted sites". Click "Sites". Add server to the website. Click "Close". 9. Click "OK" and restart your browser.
located at "\support\mib" on the Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD. NOTE: A MIB-II-compliant, SNMP-supported network management station is required to compile and browse MIB files. * OpenManage support for EFS (Encrypting File System) To improve security, Microsoft provides the capability to encrypt files using EFS (Encrypting File System). Note that Server Administrator will not function if its dependent files are encrypted.
OR Redundancy Lost: The sensors display this status, whenever any system fan fails or is removed from the chassis. Additionally, on PowerEdge 6800, the sensors will report a fan redundancy status of "Redundancy Lost" in the following scenarios: - A power supply is removed and a power supply fan blank is not inserted. - A power supply fan blank is present but has failed.
If the drivers are available with the operating system, Server Administrator will use those versions of the drivers. If the drivers are not available with the operating system, Server Administrator will use its precompiled modules on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. If precompiled drivers are not available with the operating system or Server Administrator, Server Administrator uses its Dynamic Kernel Support (DKS) feature to build the drivers when needed.
* After installing Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, you may notice that the automatic configuration and proxy setting information for each connection is separate from the same information used for the LAN connection. If you have a dial-up and a LAN connection at the same time, Internet Explorer may block your access to the Internet. This blocking occurs because each connection in Internet Explorer 5.0 uses its own automatic configuration and proxy settings.
###################################################################### This section provides information on open issues with this release of Server Administrator.
NOTE: The above situation is applicable only when the "reboot" option in the startup and recovery options is disabled. If the "reboot" option is enabled, the system will automatically reboot and you will not be forced to shut down by removing the power cord. (126837) * While browsing through IT Assistant, if the SNMP protocol is disabled and the CIM protocol is enabled, the redundancy status is shown as lost even though the system has full redundancy.
* If you import an invalid root certificate into Server Administrator using "Preferences-> General Settings-> Web Server-> X.509 Certificate" and try to log in to Server Administrator after restarting the Web server, you see a blank page. To correct this issue, restore your original "keystore.db" file before importing a valid root certificate. To restore the "keystore.db" file, use both the basic operating system commands and the Server Administrator CLI.
This will take you to the "Fan Probes" page, leaving the tab menu bar unchanged. The "Fan Probes" page under "Alert Actions" on the tab menu bar instead of "Fan Probes". * Selecting the boot sequence under the BIOS "Setup" tab does not re-enable boot devices that have been previously disabled in the System Setup Program. * The links on the Server Administrator home page may lock up after repeated random clicking.
management shows only one session (the last log-in session) for that user. If a user (or root user) tries to log in to multiple Mozilla/Firefox browser instances, then only the last session is active and the other older sessions display access forbidden upon the next access. * If a user closes the browser using browser close button or logs off from the OS, the Server Administrator session does not get terminated.
unknown event. (175331) * On certain systems that do not support power monitoring, Server Administrator reports the two platform event filters related to 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; however no action will be taken.
====================================================================== ISSUES FOR SERVER ADMINISTRATOR RUNNING ON ALL LINUX OPERATING SYSTEMS ====================================================================== * In case the user belongs to many groups/domains, the login to Server Administrator might fail for that user if the installed glibc version is not greater than glibc version 2.3.2.
as part of Windows Server 2003 installation. For more information on this component and reasons for errors, see the following articles on the Microsoft website: "http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/ technologies/security/ws03mngd/04_s3cer.mspx" "http://support.microsoft.com/default.
When Server Administrator is installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2008, the DSM SA Data Manager service is installed as a non-interactive service which means that it is configured to not be allowed to interact with the desktop by default. This means that interactive applications will not execute properly when executed for an Alert Action.
device will be listed under a Tertiary Channel instead of the Primary Channel. This issue has been resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2. * In the initial release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, the SNMP daemon will time-out when walking the network configuration section of the MIB II tree on systems running the Intel EM64T operating system. This results in missing data while trying to manage this server using Dell IT Assistant. This issue can be fixed by updating net-snmp-libs-5.1.2-11.EL4.
The following are open issues regarding the Storage Management Service. ---------------------------------------------------------------------STORAGE MANAGEMENT SERVICE ISSUES FOR ALL SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------* When issuing certain "omconfig storage" CLI commands with "Power User" privileges, the "Error! User has insufficient privileges to run command: omconfig" message may be displayed.
Management Service Advanced Create VDisk Wizard, the current page is opened in a new window, rather than launching the selected option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------STORAGE MANAGEMENT SERVICE ISSUES FOR RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEMS ----------------------------------------------------------------* If a physical disk in a RAID 1-concatenated virtual disk fails, the virtual disk is in a Degraded state.
---------------------------------------------------------------------ISSUES FOR DRAC 4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Download the DRAC 4 readme from support.dell.com for the latest information on all known issues. * Perform the following steps if you do not see the "Remote Access Controller" properties tab in the Server Administrator user interface, after installing it on a system with DRAC 4: 1. Make sure that the "Remote Access" service is running. 2.
8. Log in to DRAC 4, and navigate to the Virtual Media link. The plug-in is installed and ready to use. 9. At this point, delete the "~/rac4vm.xpi" file. * The cfgDNSServer1 and cfgDNSServer2 properties of group cfgLanNetworking may be set to identical values while swapping addresses. Some performance may be lost temporarily during the swapping. The cfgLanNetworking group is configured using the "racadm config" command.
"omconfig rac uploadcert" "omconfig rac generatecert" The following racadm commands use FTP protocol to communicate with the RAC: "racadm sslcertupload" "racadm sslcsrgen" "racadm fwupdate" * If the RAC configuration is reset to factory defaults using the "racadm racresetcfg" command, the RAC configuration tab in Server Administrator does not reflect the reset configuration settings until the system reboots.
OR - Change the password through Server Administrator using the "User" tab. Ensure that the check box to change the password is checked. Enter a new password, and then enter it again to validate the change. OR - Use the racadm utility to change the password: "racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i " where is the index of the user database entry to be modified and is the new password.
---------------------------------------------------------------------DRAC III ISSUES FOR WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------* A dial-up network connection to the remote access controller is established by the RAC managed system software installer. The RAC software will not work if this dial-up connection is deleted or if a proxy is set up in the Internet settings.
press : cmd 4. Start the Install Shield uninstallation program to remove software: a. In the command shell window, type the following line (replacing x: with the actual drive letter of your DVD drive, such as d:): x:\rac20\mtpkg\setup.exe b. Select "Remove", and then click "Next". c. Click "OK". d. Click "Finish". 5. Close the command shell window.
"start.sh" script opens its own window). If you choose "Run In Terminal", you must restart the racvnc service after installing Dell OpenManage systems management applications by typing the following command: "service racvnc restart" * When using Console Redirection on a managed system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the focus (cursor moved back over an object) follows the cursor. Occasionally, the text windows in Console Redirection lose focus.