Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 6.5 A02 Read me

Dell OpenManage Server

Administrator

Version 6.5

Release Notes

What’s New

The release highlights of OpenManage Server Administrator 6.5:

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Added support for the following operating systems:

VMware ESX 4.0 U3

VMware ESX 4.1 U1
VMware ESXi 4.1 U1
VMware ESXi 4.0 U3
Citrix XenServer 5.6 FP1
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

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Deprecated the foll owing operating systems:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x
VMware ESX 4.0 U2
VMware ESX 4.1
VMware ESXi 4.0 U2
VMware ESXi 4.1
Citrix XenServer 5.6

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New Platforms supported
Dell PowerEdge R210 II
Dell PowerEdge T110 II

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Server Administrator reports whether a Converged Network Adapter (CNA) has Fibre Channel over

Ethernet (FCoE) /iSCSI over Ethernet (iSoE) capability or not. Also, Server Administrator supports new

team types for CNA cards. For more information on team types, refer to the online help.

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Added support for a new memory redundancy mode called Double Device Data Correction (DDDC).

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Added support for display of Lifecycle Controller/Unified Server Configurator (USC) version information.

To display this information, the minimum iDRAC version for Dell monolithic systems is 1.70 and for Dell

modular systems is 3.20.

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Added support for 32x32 GB DIMM for Server Administrator to report the correct memory capacity.
For a list of platforms, Operating Systems, and Browsers support added and deprecated, refer to the Dell Systems

Software Support Matr i x Version 6.5 at support. dell.com/manuals Æ Software Æ Systems Managem ent Æ Dell
OpenManage Releases.

See the Server Administrator context-sensitive online help for more information on features introduced in this
release.

Installation

For complete installation instructions, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Installation Guide Version

6.5.

This section provides information to help enhance your experience with Server Administrator, in particular,
implementation s and environments.

Installation and Configuration Notes

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Server Administrator uses port 1311 as the default port. Port 1311 is a registered port number of Dell Inc. If

another application is configured to run on port 1311 before Server Administrator is installed, the DSM SA

Connection Service will not start after installation. Bef o re you install Server Administrator, en s ure that port

1311 is not being used.

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You need to enable client-side scripting in Internet Explorer before starting Server Administrator. To do so,
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 the security zone that the system running Server Administrator belongs to.

NOTE: This option should be set to "Trusted sites".

5. Click the "Custom Level" button.

6. For Windows 2003, perform the following steps,

— Under "Miscellaneous", select the "Allow Meta Refresh " rad io button.
— Under "Active Scripting", select the "Enable" radio butt on.
— Under "Active scripting", select the "Allow script ing of Internet Explorer web browser controls"

radio button.

7. Click "OK" and restart your browser.

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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. Under "User Authentication", select the "Automatic Logon with current username and password" radio button.

Press ‘OK’ to exit the "Custom Level" wind ow.

7. Now select the "Advanced" tab, and under "HTTP 1.1 settings", make su re "Use HTTP 1.1" is checked.

8. Select "Trusted sites". Click "Sites". Add server to the website. Click "Close".

9. Click "OK" and restart your browser

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If you run a security scanner tool (such as Nessus) against the Server Administrator Web server, certain

security warnings against port 1311 running the Server Administrator Web server may be displayed. The

following warnings have been investigated by Dell engineering and are determined to be "false positives"

(invalid security warnings) that you can safely ignore:

— "The Web server on 1311 allows scripts to read sensi tive co nfiguration and / or XML files." Dell has

determined that this warning is a false positive.

— "The Web server on 1311 allows to delete " / " which implies that th e Web server will allow a remote user to

delete the files in root on the server." Dell has determined that this warning is a false positive.

— "The Web server on 1311 may be susceptible to a 'WWW Infinite Request' attack." Dell has determined that

this warning is a false positive.

— "It is possible to make the remote thttpd server execute arbitrary code by sending a request like: GET If-

Modified-Since:AAA[...]AAAA Solution: If you are using thttpd, upgrade to version 2.0. If you are not, then
contact your vendor and ask for a patch, or change your Web server. CVE on this one is CAN-2000-0359".
Dell has determined that this warning is a false positive.

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Enabling Integrated W ind ows Authentication in Inte rne t Explorer is not required to activate the Single Sign-

On feature.

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Server Administrator security settings are not applicable for Active Directory us e r s. Active Directory users

with read-only login can access Server Administrator, even after access is blocked in the preferences page of

Server Administrato r.

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Dell SNMP MIB Files for Dell Systems

Dell SNMP MIB files for Dell systems allow you to obtain and verify information provided by
supported software agents. The current MIB files supported by PowerEdge(TM) software agents are
located at "\support\mib" on the Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD.

NOTE: A MIB-II-compliant, SNMP-supported network management station is required to compile and browse MIB

files.

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OpenManage support for Encrypting File System (EFS)

To improve security, Microsoft provides the capability to encrypt files using EFS. Note that Server
Administrator will no t func tion if its dependent files are enc r yp te d.