Owner's Manual
Installation and Configuration Notes
To install Lasso, use an administrator account or you must have administrator privileges. Double-click the .
msi
file and
follow the instructions on the wizard.
Upgrade/Downgrade
To upgrade or downgrade Lasso, uninstall existing version, and install the required version.
Uninstallation
To uninstall Lasso, use one of the following options:
Go to
Start
->
Control Panel
->
Add/Remove Programs
. Locate Lasso and click
Remove
.
Go to
Start
->
Programs
->
Dell
->
Lasso
->
Uninstall
.
In the installation directory, double-click
Uninstall.exe
.
Notes
In case of any issue with EMCReports, see the readme file at ftp://ftp.emc.com/pub/emcgrab/Windows.
Limitations
Lasso version 4.0/4.1 - Whenever a different host type is selected in the Your Hardware Environment: Hosts screen,
no option is available to reset the data fields.
DF351714, DF449573, and LASSO 107: On importing .SAN file in Lasso 4.0/4.1, Lasso fails to display Cisco Fibre
Channel switches, Brocade, Ethernet and FCoE Switches, and hosts attached to Compellent in the Your Hardware
Environment: Fibre Channel Switches, Ethernet and FCoE Switches, Storage Arrays, and Attached Hosts screens.
DF521933: When multiple collections run on an ESXi 5.0 host, Lasso fails to delete the Dell Collector folder from
the temporary directory.
DF378248: Microsoft Security Essentials detects Lasso as a threat during Windows collection.
Resolution
:
Disable Microsoft Security Essentials during Windows Collection.
User needs to add xCmd.exe as a trusted program in the exception list of McAfee and AVG antivirus respectively.
Windows host validation fails if “xCmd” has erroneously registered.
Resolution
:
Check the host’s services to see if “xCmd” is erroneously registered. If yes, run “sc delete xCmdSvc” on the
remote host to remove it and retry validation.
Windows 2000 collections using Lasso are not supported on a Windows 7 or a Windows 2008 Server R2 machine.
Powerpath must be installed on the remote Windows host to get LUN mapping information in the XML and HTML
format of collection.
Lasso cannot be installed in folder names containing special characters.
To collect data for McData switches, enable Telnet on all McData switches.
The SAN Configuration HTML format of the collection report displays "unknown" for most attributes as minimal
information is collected from VMware and 64-bit Linux hosts attached to CLARiiON or Celerra.
To run Lasso, command line JRE Version 1.6 or later is required.
Lasso installer does not support SystemRoot directory as the destination folder. Therefore, do not select this
directory as the destination folder during Lasso installation.
Lasso-50: If Lasso runs and collects data from the same host, Windows host collection fails.
LASSO-191: On Force10 devices, the "Show running" command fails to run in model s50v.
Lasso does not display the correct HTML Layout for Cisco FC switch.