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DELL(TM) OPENMANAGE(TM) SERVER ADMINISTRATOR VERSION 6.0.1

README

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Version: 6.0.1

Release Date: March 2009

NOTE: This readme provides information for Dell OpenManage Server

Administrator version 6.0.1.

This file contains updated information for your "Dell OpenManage

Server Administrator User's Guide" and any other technical

documentation included with Server Administrator.

NOTE: Dell OpenManage System Management software, including Server

Administrator, is available only on the "Dell Systems

Management Tools and Documentation" DVD.

NOTE: See the Dell OpenManage Storage Management readme for

detailed information regarding the Storage Management

Service.

The Server Administrator documentation includes the "User's Guide",

"Messages Reference Guide", "CIM Reference Guide", "Command Line

Interface (CLI) User's Guide", "SNMP Reference Guide", and

"Compatibility Guide". You can access the documentation from the

Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD or from the

Dell support website at "support.dell.com".

This file contains the following sections:

* Criticality

* Minimum Requirements

* Release Highlights

* Installation

* User Notes

* Known Issues

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CRITICALITY

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3 - Optional

Dell recommends that you review specifics about the update to

determine if it applies to your system. The update contains changes

that impact only certain configurations and provides new features

Summary of content (21 pages)

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##################################################################### DELL(TM) OPENMANAGE(TM) SERVER ADMINISTRATOR VERSION 6.0.1 README ##################################################################### Version: 6.0.1 Release Date: March 2009 NOTE: This readme provides information for Dell OpenManage Server Administrator version 6.0.1.
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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. * Please see the latest Dell Systems Software Support Matrix contained on the media for the latest and complete list of supported operating systems and platforms.
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RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS ##################################################################### * Added installation support for the following operating systems: * Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit (Web edition) * Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit extensions) (Standard and Core, Enterprise and Core, and Datacenter and Core editions).
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- Under "Miscellaneous", select the "Allow Meta Refresh" radio 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.
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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". Dell has determined that this warning is a false positive.
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NOTES FOR THE INSTRUMENTATION SERVICE ===================================================================== * On certain systems, user-defined thresholds set under Server Administrator become the default thresholds after uninstalling Server Administrator. After you change the threshold value of a probe on certain systems running Server Administrator and then uninstall Server Administrator, the changed threshold value becomes the default threshold value.
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modules for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.5. These drivers also ship with Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.5 and version 5. It is expected that future Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.5 and 5 Updates will continue to ship these drivers. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: These drivers ship with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 10. It is expected that future SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 10 Service Packs will continue to ship these drivers.
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This blocking occurs because each connection in Internet Explorer 5.0 uses its own automatic configuration and proxy settings. When you try to establish a PPP connection, Internet Explorer attempts to use the dial-up connection settings to access the Internet. You can find additional information about this issue in the article Q818060, "Connections No Longer Use Local Area Network Automatic Configuration and proxy settings" in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) at "support.microsoft.com".
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===================================================================== * Due to resource non-availability, inventory collection may terminate unexpectedly and restart. If this occurs, the folder "C:\Temp\invcol" may be left as an artifact. The presence of this folder does not affect functionality of the inventory collection. The folder can be deleted if required.
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Illegal combination of parameters", modify your command into several simpler commands. Each command should change only one setting. * When running Server Administrator on a system with a Traditional Chinese operating system, the Server Administrator pages are displayed in Simplified Chinese. To view the Server Administrator in English, go to your browser language preference page and change the language to English. * Log files saved from Server Administrator are saved in zip format.
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* The links on the Server Administrator home page may lock up after repeated random clicking. To resolve this situation, refresh the browser by pressing or click the browser "Refresh" button. * All unsecured HTTP requests to Server Administrator receive an invalid response. Server Administrator runs only one instance of the Web server, which is secure. Make all connections through https:// : .
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entry in "\iws\config\iws.ini" file. * If a user changes the operating system timezone to a new timezone, Server Administrator session management will not display the time in the new time zone specified. Server Administrator needs to be restarted so that the correct time zone time is displayed in the Session Management page. * Server Administrator Auto Recovery feature may execute configured action when system is under heavy stress.
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only alphanumerics. [185770] * While installing Windows Server 2008 or post installation,if you set the Time and Currency formats to any of the newly added languages (in comparison with Windows Server 2003), then DSM SA Connection service and DSM SA Shared Service of OpenManage Server Administrator may fail to start and Command Line Interface options may fail to execute.
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* On operating system bootup you may occasionally get error message popup – fwInvn32.exe encountered a problem and needed to close. [272344] ===================================================================== ISSUES FOR SERVER ADMINISTRATOR RUNNING ON ALL LINUX OPERATING SYSTEMS ===================================================================== * If you try to repeatedly install and uninstall server administrator or (start and restart server administrator service) the inventory collector may not stop.
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the "Update Root Certificates" component, which is installed by default 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.
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non-interactive service which means that it is configured to not be allowed to interact with the desktop directly. If an interactive application is executed for an Alert Action in this situation, the application will be suspended waiting for input from the user, but the application interface/prompt will not be visible to the user. The application interface/prompt will not be visible even after the Interactive Services Detection service is started.
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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. These messages, displayed in the console when the driver initialization is delayed by the installation of Server Administrator services and can be safely ignored.
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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.
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swapping. The cfgLanNetworking group is configured using the "racadm config" command.[132894] * The remote access controller uses FTP protocol to perform some of the Dell OpenManage commands. If a firewall is installed in the system, it may cause these commands to fail.
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- Use the following CLI command to change the password: "omconfig rac users username=xx userpassword=yy" where "xx" is the original userid and "yy" is the new password. 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.
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