Users Guide

NOTE: Server Administrator supports the licensing feature on PowerEdge 12G system onwards.

The feature is available only if the required minimum version of iDRAC, iDRAC 1.30.30, is

installed.

NOTE: The feature is available only if the required minimum version of iDRAC is installed.

Properties

Subtabs: Health | Summary | Asset Information | Auto Recovery

Under the Properties tab, you can:

• View the current health alert status for hardware and software components in the Main System

Chassis/Main System object and the Storage object.

• View detailed summary information for all components in the system being monitored.

• View and configure asset information for the system being monitored.

• View and set the Automatic System Recovery (operating system watchdog timer) actions for the

system being monitored.

NOTE: Automatic System Recovery options may not be available if the operating system

watchdog timer is enabled in BIOS. To configure the auto recovery options, the operating

system watchdog timer must be disabled.

NOTE: Automatic System Recovery actions may not execute exactly per the time-out period (n

seconds) when the watchdog identifies a system that has stopped responding. The action

execution time ranges from n-h+1 to n+1 seconds, where n is the time-out period and h is the

heart beat interval. The value of the heart beat interval is 7 seconds when n<30 and 15 seconds

when n > 30.

NOTE: The functionality of the watchdog timer feature cannot be guaranteed when an

uncorrectable memory event occurs in the system DRAM Bank_1. If an uncorrectable memory

event occurs in this location, the BIOS code resident in this space may become corrupted.

Because the watchdog feature uses a call to BIOS to effect the shutdown or reboot behavior,

the feature may not work properly. If this occurs, you must manually reboot the system. The

watchdog timer can be set to a maximum of 720 seconds.

Shutdown

Subtabs: Remote Shutdown | Thermal Shutdown | Web Server Shutdown

Under the Shutdown tab, you can:

• Configure the operating system shutdown and remote shutdown options

• Set the thermal shutdown severity level to shut down your system in the event that a temperature

sensor returns a warning or failure value.

NOTE: A thermal shutdown occurs only when the temperature reported by the sensor goes

above the temperature threshold. A thermal shutdown does not occur when the temperature

reported by the sensor goes below the temperature threshold.

• Shut down the DSM SA Connection Service (Web server).

NOTE: Server Administrator is still available through the command line interface (CLI) when the

DSM SA Connection Service is shut down. The CLI functions do not require the DSM SA

Connection Service to be running.

Logs

Subtabs: Hardware | Alert | Command

Under the Logs tab, you can: