Server Administrator 7.4.
Release Type and Definition Server Administrator This document contains updated information for the "Server Administrator User's Guide" and any other technical documentation included with Server Administrator. NOTE: System Management software, including the Server Administrator (Server Administrator), is available only on the "Systems Management Tools and Documentation" DVD.
Software Requirements • Supported operating system and web browser. • TCP/IP connection on the managed system and the remote system to facilitate remote system management. • Supported systems management protocol standard. For more information, see "Supported Systems Management Protocol Standards". • The Server Administrator Remote Access Controller service requires remote access controller (RAC) to be installed on the managed system.
Fixes The following issues were reported in earlier releases of Server Administrator and have been corrected in this release: • • • • • BITS165339: IPS: 10892.mib contains a few significant SNMP validator errors BITS145720: App Crash (Xalan-c.
Server Administrator, so that the Server Administrator SNMP agents are registered with the operating system SNMP agent. Server Administrator Device Drivers for Linux: Server Administrator includes two device drivers for Linux: Systems - Management Base Driver (dcdbas) and BIOS Update Driver (dell_rbu). • Server Administrator uses these drivers to perform the systems management functions. Depending on the system, the application loads one or both of these drivers.
• o If you configure the syslog to store logs on a remote virtual disc (VD), and remove the remote VD without reconfiguring the syslog to a valid location, the Server Administrator web server screen stops responding. o To continue using the Server Administrator Web server, restart the management services on the managed node. DF550588: On ESXi 5.0 U1 operating system, the performance of Server Administrator is slow. On ESXi 5.0 U1 operating system, the Server Administrator is slow.
o Watchdog timer: Server Administrator displays the option as disabled, but F2 bios allows to change the setting. o Embedded Video Controller: Server Administrator provides options to enable or disable, but in F2 bios the option is greyed out. o TPM Security: Server Administrator does not allow to change the settings, but F2 bios allows to change the settings. o System Profile State: Server Administrator does not allow to make changes, but F2 bios allows to make the changes.
for the Server Administrator to display the updated BIOS settings properly. • If you import an invalid root certificate into Server Administrator, using "Preferences> General Settings-> Web Server-> X.509 Certificate", and try to log on to the application after restarting the Web server, a blank page is displayed. To fix this issue, restore your original "keystore.db" file before importing a valid root certificate. To restore the "keystore.
service is restarted, or the operating system is rebooted. • If you change the operating system Time Zone to a new time zone, Server Administrator session management does not display the time in the new time zone specified. Restart Server Administrator to display the accurate time for the time zone in the Session Management page. • DF78425: The Server Administrator Auto Recovery feature may execute the configured action before the time interval when the system is under heavy stress.
The following is an example of the effect of this behavior: o On certain systems, the first time that the thresholds for a probe are changed after Server Administrator is installed; the current threshold values for that probe are saved as the default threshold values by writing the values to a configuration file. When "Set to Default" is performed after the first change of the thresholds, Server Administrator sets the threshold values to the values that were saved in the configuration file as the default.
applicable: On systems running Windows: o Delete the file keystore.db at \Dell\SysMgt\apache- tomcat\conf\ o Rename the file keystore.db.bak at \Dell\SysMgt\apache- tomcat\conf\to keystore.db On systems running Linux: • For 32-bit OS • o Delete the keystore.db file at /opt/dell/srvadmin/lib/openmanage/apache- tomcat/conf o Rename the keystore.db.bak at /opt/dell/srvadmin/lib/openmanage/apache- tomcat/conf to keystore.db For 64-bit OS 3.
• BITS054513: On a system running Windows, while running CLI commands using telnet from a system running Linux, the telnet session may terminate if the amount of data being transferred is huge.
To resolve this issue, perform the following: • 1. Find and select "Tools" from the menu. 2. Select "Internet Options" and click the "Security" tab. 3. Click "Custom level" button and scroll down to "User Authentication". 4. Under "Logon", choose the option "Automatic logon with current user name and password". If Server Administrator is running in the "Local Intranet Zone", you may choose the option "Automatic log on only in Intranet zone" instead. 5.
• DF330800: Server Administrator Web server local user login fails on the Windows 2008 R2 Managed Node. When a Windows 2008 R2 Managed Node is added to a domain, logging in from any Server Administrator Web Server to that Windows 2008 R2 Managed Node will fail with local user or local power-user credentials. Only the credentials of a local Administrator or Domain user will work, with a prerequisite that all required winrm configurations have been applied.
The following Server Administrator CLI commands use FTP protocol to communicate with the RAC: o "omconfig rac uploadcert" o "omconfig rac generatecert" The following racadm commands use FTP protocol to communicate with the RAC: o "racadm sslcertupload" o "racadm sslcsrgen" o "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 s
5. Click "Proxies" in the left sidebar. 6. Enter the RAC IP address in the "No Proxy for:" field. 7. Click "OK" and then close the browser. • If the out-of-band RAC user interface is spawned off from the Server Administrator home page with a Mozilla browser, strings with extended ASCII characters may not display correctly in certain languages. This issue occurs because the Server Administrator sets the browser UTF-8 character. To correct this issue, change the browser character coding to ISO-8859-1.
report LPe16002 #4V0JT cards in slots 3 and 4. • BITS112307: Server Administrator 7.4 does not consistently display DIMM failure status. • BITS113585: Server Administrator does not log CPU or CMOS Battery Probe Alerts and does not send SNMP traps. • BITS116474: On systems running XenServer6.1 operating system remote shutdown of operating system does not work properly, if you clear the Shutdown OS first option. • BITS119516: DWS login fails on ESXi 5.5 with the latest SVN_704 build.
Limitations Known Limitations and Workarounds for Storage Management Service • 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. • View slot occupancy report shows 4 HDD slots on backplanes with just two HDD slots for any server. • Physical disk clear operation is not available on PERC 8 family of controllers.
Solution: If the "Import Foreign Configuration" task is unable to import an inconsistent virtual disk, then the physical disks that belong to the virtual disk continue to display a "Foreign" state after the "Import Foreign Configuration" task completes. In this case, repeat the "Import Foreign Configuration" task until one of the following occurs: • o There are no longer any physical disks in "Foreign" state after the "Import Foreign Configuration" task completes.
• BITS124349: Firmware version for SAS 9207_8e, SAS 9206_16e, and SAS 9300_8e, will not be displayed on Storage Management GUI and CLI. • BITS123999: SAS 9300_8e is not supported on systems running the VMware ESXi operating system. • BITS128355: The slot occupancy report displays single backplane ID and backplane name in GUI & CLI.
3. Click the "Security" tab. 4. Select "Trusted sites". 5. Click the "Custom Level" button. 6. Under "User Authentication", select the "Automatic Logon with current username and password" radio button. Click ‘OK’ to exit the "Custom Level" window. 7. Select the "Advanced" tab and in "HTTP 1.1 settings", make sure "Use HTTP 1.1" is checked. 8. Select "Trusted sites". Click "Sites". Add the server to the website. 9. Click "Close". 10. Click "OK" and restart your browser.
have increased: o omreport chassis remoteaccess config=user o omreport system platformevents o omreport system pedestinations The amount of time varies depending on the hardware and operating system
Firmware for PERC controllers Firmware for SAS 6/iR Integrated, SAS 6/iR Adapter, SAS 6/int.
Windows Drivers for PERC Controllers Windows Drivers for PERC 6/E Adapter, PERC 6/i Integrated, PERC 6/i Adapter, SAS 6/iR Integrated, SAS 6/iR Adapter, SAS 6/int.
Linux Drivers for PERC Controllers Linux Drivers for PERC SAS 6/iR Integrated, SAS 6/iR Adapter, SAS 6/int.
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