Server Administrator Installation and Management 7.4.
Version 7.4.0 Release Date: March 2014 Previous Version 7.3.0 Importance RECOMMENDED: Dell recommends applying this update during your next scheduled update cycle. The update contains feature enhancements or changes that will help keep your system software current and compatible with other system modules (firmware, BIOS, drivers and software). What’s New • Intel and Broadcom SNMP Agents 64-bit versions are available as part of the 64-bit server administrator installer.
User Notes for Supported Windows Operating Systems In the Prerequisite Checker screen, you may get the following message: An error occurred while attempting to execute a Visual Basic Script. Please confirm that Visual Basic files are installed correctly. This error occurs when the Prerequisite Checker calls the vbstest.vbs (a Visual Basic [VB]) script to verify the installation environment and fails for some reason.
User Notes for Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and VMware ESX Operating Systems • The OpenIPMI device driver used by Server Administrator will conflict with the Intel IMB device driver. You must uninstall the IMB driver before installing Server Administrator. • When Server Administrator is installed on a system, dependency issues related to RPMs may occur. To resolve these issues, install the missing RPMs from SYSMGMT/srvadmin/linux/RPMS/supportRPMS.
If you require the usbarbitor, enable it manually. To enable the usbarbitrator, run the command - chkconfig usbarbitrator on. (373924) User Notes for Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and VMware ESX Operating Systems • Under certain conditions with DKMS versions prior to version 2.0.9, device driver building may fail. This may prevent Server Administrator from installing. You may see the following error message: "Building module: cleaning build area....
Issues and Workarounds The following subsections list the currently known issues. Issues on Windows Issue 1: Description: Server Administrator launch using the desktop icon fails in a remote desktop session. (BITS053605) On Microsoft Windows operating system, when Server Administrator is deployed to a system with an active remote desktop session, clicking the icon to launch Server Administrator in that session fails with the following error message: The program can't start because libxml2.
Resolution: Ensure that you install Internet Explorer correctly before installing your systems management software. Issue 5: Description: MSI reference counts affected for Intel SNMP agent install. MSI reference counting takes effect if you install the Intel SNMP agent using the MSI provided by Intel, and then installs the Intel SNMP agent again using the Server Administrator installer.
Server Administrator version 6.x for Linux will not have a functional Connection Service web GUI after upgrading SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 using Service Pack 1. Also, the installed WS-MAN service for OMSA will not function. Resolution: To prevent this: 1. 2. Before upgrading SLES 11 operating system, manually uninstall the OpenSource packages like OpenWSMAN, SFCB, SFCC and LibCmpiCppImpl packages with --nodeps option. Upgrade the SLES11 operating system using Service Pack 1.
• glibc.i686 • compat-libstdc++.i686 • libstdc++.i686 • zlib.i686 • libxml2.i686 If the dependent RPMs are not installed then Inventory Collector does not function as expected and exits with appropriate error messages. (123384) Issue 6: Description: On a system running supported Linux operating system (French), the System Administrator Shortcut is not available.
Issue 4: Description: On Server Administrator 7.4, while running the Repair option from Add/Remove Programs or Uninstall or Change a program window, if an error occurs, use the Repair option in the MSI. Issue 5: Description: Do not specify user profile folders such as a desktop folder C:\Users\administrator\Desktop as custom installation paths for installing OMSA. This is because services running on the system account cannot access such folders.
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