##################################################################### DELL(TM) OPENMANAGE(TM) SERVER ADMINISTRATOR VERSION 6.1 README ##################################################################### Version 6.1 Release Date: June 2009 NOTE: This readme provides information for Dell OpenManage Server Administrator version 6.1 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.
* iDRAC firmware version 1.1 or greater is required for systems installed with iDRAC. ##################################################################### RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS ##################################################################### * For a detailed table of supported servers and operating systems, refer to the Dell Systems Software Support Matrix.
button. - Under "Active Scripting", select the "Enable" radio button. 7. For Windows 2003, perform the following steps, - Under "Miscellaneous", select the "Allow Meta Refresh" radio button. - Under "Active Scripting", select the "Enable" radio button. - Under "Active scripting", select the "Allow scripting of Internet Explorer web browser controls" radio button. 8. Click "OK" and restart your browser. * To allow Single Sign-on for Server Administrator, perform the following steps: 1.
false positive. * "The Web server on 1311 might be susceptible to a 'WWW Infinite Request' attack." Dell has determined that this warning is a false positive. * "It is possible to make the remote thttpd server execute arbitrary code by sending a request like: GET If-Modified-Since:AAA[...]AAAA Solution: If you are using thttpd, upgrade to version 2.0. If you are not, then contact your vendor and ask for a patch, or change your Web server. CVE on this one is CAN-2000-0359".
The amount of time varies by hardware system and operating system. [188345] ===================================================================== NOTES FOR THE INSTRUMENTATION SERVICE ===================================================================== * On certain systems, user-defined thresholds set under Server Administrator become the default thresholds after uninstalling Server Administrator.
Administrator loads one or both of these drivers if required. These drivers have been released as open source under the GNU General Public License v2.0. They are available in Linux kernels from kernel.org starting with kernel 2.6.14. Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Server Administrator provides precompiled dcdbas and dell_rbu modules for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.5. These drivers also ship with Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.5 and version 5.
* iDRAC also has its own CLI that is accessed through the "racadm" command. You can add racadm commands to a batch or script file to automate various user tasks. To limit the stress load on the managed system and RAC, add "sleep" or "delay" commands of one or two seconds between the individual racadm commands. * After installing Internet Explorer 5.
4. Launch Internet Explorer, open the "Help" menu, and select "About Internet Explorer". Verify that "Q818060" appears in the "Update Versions" field. ##################################################################### KNOWN ISSUES ##################################################################### This section provides information on open issues with this release of Server Administrator.
configuration operation.[136599] * 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. To confirm the correct state of the system, use the Server Administrator user interface. * If you have a RAID 1 virtual disk on a CERC SATA 1.5/6ch controller, performing a "Format or Split Mirror" operation may fail. Dell is working to resolve this problem.
Certificate" and try to log in to Server Administrator after restarting the Web server, you will 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. Perform the following steps from your operating system command line: 1. Type: omconfig system webserver action=stop 2. Locate the "keystore.db.bak" file.
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". * When setting dates in the "Asset Information" section of the Server Administrator home page, the current time is appended to the date. When setting dates with the CLI, the appended time is noon.
reboot system) 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 makes it more likely that a short keep alive interval (less than 120 seconds) will not be measured accurately, and the configured action may be triggered.
* Persistence of Configuration File Changes in VMware(R) ESXi In VMware(R) ESXi, the filesystem is a ramdisk. Modifications made to the files within the filesystem are generally not persisted across reboots, with the exception of designated configuration files. These files are persisted to disk periodically and on ESXi shutdown. If the system is reset without a graceful shutdown of ESXi before changes to the designated configuration files are persisted to disk, the changes are lost.
====================================================================== ISSUES FOR SERVER ADMINISTRATOR RUNNING ON ALL MICROSOFT WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS ====================================================================== * Execute all Server Administrator CLI commands from a 32-bit Windows command prompt. Acceptable ways to access the 32-bit command prompt are by clicking "Start-> Programs-> Accessories-> Command Prompt" or by clicking "Start-> Run" and then typing "cmd.exe".
corrupted") will be displayed when you perform the following actions in Server Administrator on Windows 2003 for x64 systems with Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1: 1. Go to System -> Logs 2. Select "Command," "Alert," or "Hardware." 3. Click "Save As" 4. Click "Open" in "File Download" message box. Additionally, the "Export" function in the Server Administrator GUI may not work. The root cause of both problems is the same.
OPERATING SYSTEMS ==================================================================== * If Server Administrator is launched using the desktop icon, Single Sign-on may not work if in the Internet Explorer, under "Tools" -> "Internet Options" -> "Security" -> "Custom Level", the "User Authentication Logon" option is set to "Prompt for user name and password". [94201] To resolve this issue, perform the following steps: 1. Find and select "Tools" from the menu. 2.
desktop. To allow interaction with the desktop, right-click on the DSM SA Data Manager service in the Services control panel and select Properties. In the Log On tab, enable "Allow service to interact with desktop" and click OK. Restart the DSM SA Data Manager service for the change to take effect. When the DSM SA Data Manager service is restarted with this change, the Service Control Manager logs the following message to the System log: "The DSM SA Data Manager service is marked as an interactive service.
2. Restart "syslog" by executing "/etc/init.d/syslog restart". * When using the Mozilla browser on Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems, the font and type size on the Server Administrator global navigation bar appear different from the default font and type size that Server Administrator uses. * For systems running a supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, kernel driver messages such as "AAC_ChardevOpen" are sometimes displayed in the console at the login prompt.
window causes the vertical scrollbar to be redrawn correctly. * Using the GUI, if a virtual disk is renamed to a name containing multiple blank and consecutive spaces, the name is truncated to a single space after "Apply" is clicked. * When the "Open in a New Window" option is selected in the Storage Management Service Advanced Create VDisk Wizard, the current page is opened in a new window, rather than launching the selected option.
* Due to fluctuations in the watchdog timer, the "Last Crash Screen" may not be captured when the Automatic System Recovery is set to a value of less than 30 seconds. To ensure correct functioning of the Last Crash Screen feature, set the System Reset Timer to at least 30 seconds. * 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.
* RAC firmware 2.0 and higher does not support passwords with special characters (non-alphanumeric) only for RAC user IDs logging in using the Web-based interface (with Local RAC Authentication). If you created RAC user IDs using previous versions of the firmware or if you created user IDs using Server Administrator that is running version 2.0 firmware on the managed system, you cannot log in to the RAC. Use one of these methods to correct this issue: - Change your passwords before updating the firmware.
6. Enter the RAC IP address in the "No Proxy for:" field. 7. Click "OK" and then close the browser. * If the out-of-band RAC user interface was spawned off from the Server Administrator home page with a Mozilla browser, strings with extended ASCII characters may not display correctly in certain languages. This issue occurs because the browser is set to the UTF-8 character set by Server Administrator. To correct this issue, change the browser character coding to ISO-8859-1.