Dell Management Console Version 2.0.
Dell Management Console provides a central point of access to monitor and manage systems on a local area network (LAN) or the wide area network (WAN). By providing administrators a comprehensive view across the enterprise, Dell Management Console can increase system uptime, reduce repetitive tasks, and prevent interruption in critical business operations. What’s New New Major Features: 1. This release of Dell Management Console 2.0.2 includes Symantec(R) Notification Server (NS) 7.1 SP1.
Hardware and Software Requirements Minimum Hardware Requirements Physical server: 4 or more Processor cores 4 GB RAM DVD Drive Microsoft .NET 3.5 (SP1 is supported) Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Microsoft SQL 2005 Express or SQL 2008 Express or SQL Server 2005 SP1/SP2/SP3 (32-bit remote or 64-bit) or SQL Server 2008 R2 (32-bit remote or 64-bit) or SQL Server 2008 ENT (32-bit remote or 64-bit) Windows Internet Explorer version 7.0 or 8.
Installation Prerequisites SQL Server Updates The recommended SQL Server Updates are: SQL Server 2005 SP1 or SP2 or SP3 is required for using SQL Server 2005 as the default database. Optimize your SQL Server maximum memory settings as indicated in Microsoft(R) knowledge base articles KB321363 and KB319942. This configuration may significantly improve product performance. Altiris KB location http://www.symantec.
To enable the install option for the non-installed components, go to 'Settings' tab and click 'Update Now' button. To view the Tutorials online, make sure you have Windows Media Player installed. In Windows Server 2008 this comes with Desktop Experience: http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/cc772567.aspx During install, take note of the following: - Do not disable or disconnect any network port while the installation is in progress.
Prerequisites for the VM install: Minimum 4GB Virtual RAM Minimum 4 Virtual Processors Physical server should have VT enabled processors Use a remote SQL database Variations on this configuration may work, but have not been tested. See http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=home - 45258 and 45257 for additional details. Upgrade When upgrading to Dell Management Console 2.0.2, take note of the following: Launch Symantec Installation Manager (SIM).
Issue 5: If you see an E11: Object expected error message in the console, to resolve the issue restart the IIS Service. Issue 6: When creating a WS-MAN connection profile using remote browser, the certificate file cannot be uploaded to the Dell Management Console server. The connection profile for WS-MAN protocol must be created on the server where Dell Management Console is installed. Manually delete the device from the console and re-discover the device to render accurate health.
3. Click Settings in the start-up page of SIM. 4. Click Change product listing and type http://www.solutionsam.com/solutions/pl/symantec.pl.xml. 5. Click OK. You can access the latest solutions and updates in the Install New Products page. Issue 18: To completely remove DMC from your system, use add/remove program instead Of the SIM installer. Issue 19: Upgrade of Dell Management Console and ITMS to the latest version fails.
Issue 25: OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) Deployment task will fail for a managed device that does not have the required disk space to install OMSA on it. Error message would say "The task was killed because it took longer than the allotted time". Ensure that managed device has sufficient disk space in the default drive before you re-run the deployment task.
Issue 34: The Compliance report for a server is displayed only if there are updatable components. Issue 35: Systems that are rebooted after an update still display a Reboot Required message. The return code is from the actual update process. You can go to the job and check the status of the task, including the status of the reboot.
Issue 45: When using online mode (ftp.dell.com), on few occasions the digital signature check for downloaded updates could fail due to corrupted download. Re-run the stage and distribute task to download the update again. Event Console Issue 46: Alert Initiated Discovery will not work for the PowerVault MD storage devices.
The performance polices are not enabled by default. See the Dell Management Console User‟s Guide or the tutorial video for details on how to enable these policies. Performance policies for Windows require Windows 2003 or greater. The server you are attempting to monitor must be classified as a Dell Computer. This is a licensing restriction of the limited license.
In order for the members to be discovered, the IP address of each cluster member must be included in the list of addresses to be discovered by the discovery task. When discovering HA Clusters, the cluster name may replace the name of the active cluster node. To avoid this, do not include the cluster IP address in the discovery range.
After a Network Discovery task is run in which the system described above is targeted, a second resource entry is created for that system. Ideally, there should only be one resource for this system. However, the Symantec Management Agentdoes not provide enough information about the system for DMC to detect the duplicate devices thus creating the situation described above. Issue 67: Inventory for Brocade Switches shows incorrect details.
Issue 76: Dell Web Server (DWS) Configuration is not supported for Linux targets in OMSA 6.1. As a consequence configuring DWS using either the DWS Configuration Task or the OpenManage Command Line Interface (OMCLI) task on Linux targets will cause the task to fail. Due to an issue in the task framework with Linux targets, these tasks when executed against Linux targets take a long time (~1 hour) to show the failure.
Resource Links 1. The Dell TechCenter http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Dell+Management+Console 2. Altiris Knowledge Base Articles http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=home 3. Juice User Community: A Community for Symantec Customers and End Users http://www.symantec.com/community/ 4. Video Tutorials: DMC 2.0.2 installer has references to a bunch of video tutorials. http://en.community.dell.com/ Global Support For information on technical support, visit www.dell.com/contactus.
