##################################################################### DELL(TM) OPENMANAGE(TM) SERVER ADMINISTRATOR VERSION 6.2 README ##################################################################### Version 6.2 Release Date: December 2009 NOTE: This readme provides information for Dell OpenManage Server Administrator version 6.2 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.
##################################################################### RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS ##################################################################### * For a detailed table of supported servers and operating systems, see the Dell Systems Software Support Matrix.
- Under "Active scripting", select the "Allow scripting of Internet Explorer web browser controls" radio button. 7. Click "OK" and restart your browser. * To allow Single Sign-on for Server Administrator, perform the following steps: 1. Navigate to "Tools" in Internet Explorer. 2. Under "Tools", click "Internet Options" 3. Under "Internet Options", click the "Security" tab. 4. Select "Trusted sites". 5. Click the "Custom Level" button. 6.
* Enabling Integrated Windows Authentication in Internet Explorer is not required to activate the Single Sign-On feature. * Server Administrator security settings are not applicable for Active Directory users. Active Directory users with read-only login can access Server Administrator, even after access is blocked in the preferences page of Server Administrator.
* 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. * When modifying the warning threshold settings, the values are stored in the firmware as discrete integer values and scaled for display.
===================================================================== NOTES FOR THE REMOTE ACCESS SERVICE ===================================================================== * This service is available on supported systems in this release only. It enables remote access to a server that has lost its network connection or that has become unresponsive. In this release of Server Administrator, the Remote Access Service uses Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC).
SP1 to be installed" occurs, perform these steps: 1. Unzip "Q818060-Eng-IE6.zip". 2. From a Windows command shell, enter "Q818060.exe /C" to extract the HotFix files to a directory. 3. In the command shell, switch to the directory and then enter "ieupdate.exe Q818060". 4. Launch Internet Explorer, open the "Help" menu, and select "About Internet Explorer". Verify that "Q818060" appears in the "Update Versions" field.
* 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. [138549] * After installing Server Administrator from the command prompt, issuing an "omreport" or "omconfig" command from the same prompt can cause an error.
* Some complex "omconfig" CLI commands that contain multiple operations have been modified to avoid the above problem. If, while executing a CLI command you receive the message "Error! 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.
and "Open in New Window" may not be supported. * 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. 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.
session windows. Also, if you have logged in to multiple browser instances, the session management window displays only one session (the last log-in session) for you. To avoid these issues, access Server Administrator Web Server using a single browser instance.[280268] * If you close the browser using browser “Close” button or log off from the operating system, the Server Administrator session does not get terminated.
* 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. [172125] * On Server Administrator, Under Asset Information-> System Information-> Primary User Telephone Number configuration allows only alphanumerics.
* Due to the limitation of VMware ESX 3i/4i, the “About” tab in the Server Administrator Preferences page will display 'Preferences Preferences' instead of 'Server Administrator Preferences.' [276236] * While trying to manage a system running the VMware ESXi version 4 operating system from Server Administrator Web Server, an “Internal Error” message may be displayed if the management agent stops responding.
====================================================================== 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".
===================================================================== ISSUES FOR SERVER ADMINISTRATOR RUNNING ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2003 OPERATING SYSTEMS ===================================================================== * The following warning message can be ignored: A provider, omprov, has been registered in the WMI namespace, Root\CIMV2\Dell, to use the LocalSystem account.
the Event log: -> Uninstall the "Update Root certificates" component as described in the first knowledge base article mentioned above. Note: This procedure may affect other programs as discussed in the article. -> Install the Server Administrator certificate as a trusted certificate. Note: This procedure may still prompt you to accept the certificate when you log on to Server Administrator, but will prevent the crypt32 errors from being logged to the Event log.
you for input in some way such as the "pause" command in a batch file. 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 directly.
====================================================================== ISSUES FOR SERVER ADMINISTRATOR WEB SERVER RUNNING ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP OPERATING SYSTEM ====================================================================== * If you are running Server Administrator Web Server on a Microsoft Windows XP SP2 operating system and trying to manage a system with VMware ESXi version 4 operating system remotely, a login failure message is displayed. To resolve this issue, apply Microsoft KB909425.
---------------------------------------------------------------------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. You must be logged in as an Administrator to perform these actions.
for a degraded RAID 1-concatenated virtual disk may display the "Check Consistency" option. Do not perform a consistency check until appropriate actions are performed to restore the virtual disk. Dell is working to resolve this problem. * With Chinese or Japanese language browser settings, using the Storage Management Service Advanced Create VDisk Wizard may occasionally result in text overflowing to the bottom of the side-by-side blue text boxes.
"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.
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