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| Stooartbaby | Multiple password changes | 6 | Jul 20 2008, 11:23 PM EDT by Stooartbaby | |||
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Thread started: Jun 15 2008, 7:18 PM EDT
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Hi There,
It would be great if we could select multiple DRACs, right click and have "Change password" as an option... failing this... any option which makes it easier to change DRAC passwords on multiple devices.... the idea here is to make it easier to comply with security policies (frequent change of passwords… every 3 months in our case) Thanks, Stuart.
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| tvieson | Move OpenManage out of Java | 2 | Jul 1 2008, 10:50 PM EDT by jeremydallas | |||
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Thread started: Jun 10 2008, 9:33 AM EDT
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I'm not sure if this is a possibility, but running this in Java makes it nearly impossible to use sometimes. Depending on the number of systems or what I'm doing the website will stop responding and I have to reload the page / clear java cache / delete browser cache. So many monitoring tools have moved away from Java for these reasons.
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| scott_hanson | Blade CMC session timeout too short | 1 | Jun 27 2008, 5:58 PM EDT by Avitar | |||
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Thread started: Jun 26 2008, 11:48 AM EDT
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Make it longer.
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| scott_hanson | Blade iDRAC remote control session always starts maximized | 0 | Jun 26 2008, 11:48 AM EDT by scott_hanson | |||
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Thread started: Jun 26 2008, 11:48 AM EDT
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I was in a briefing and the customer mentioned this as a pain. I am now feeling the pain too ! -- when you start an iDRAC remote console session and resize the window, then exit and come back, it goes back to maximized. This takes up the ENTIRE screen. I have a monitor with 1680x1050 and I don't need that to see the 640x480 server screen.
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| tezdoll | Manual adds | 0 | Jun 2 2008, 7:19 AM EDT by tezdoll | |||
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Thread started: Jun 2 2008, 7:19 AM EDT
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I have a lot of SMTP devices that show up in "Open Manager IT Assisnt" that i can not do anything with. Is there any way to make it so i can manually configure the devices?
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| Stooartbaby | Software updates | 1 | May 27 2008, 9:09 PM EDT by Stooartbaby | |||
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Thread started: May 16 2008, 3:51 AM EDT
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Hi Guys,
Right now, I can create a deployment job and either schedule it, or run it immediately... unfortunately, some jobs fail for whatever reason (authentication issue s or whatnot). It would be great if we could carry out a deployment simulation which will go through as many steps as possible without actually applying the update/rebooting etc.... we could then run the a pre deployment simulation first, and then feel confident that the task scheduled for 3am will work as expected. Thanks, Stuart.
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| ZeekWatson | OS agnostic tarballs | 3 | May 25 2008, 5:46 PM EDT by tkld | |||
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Thread started: May 14 2008, 5:23 PM EDT
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Believe it or not, I don't use Redhat, Fedora or Centos! RPM based distros are not suitable for every server out there. Yes this is an unsupported setup ...
Openmanage in RPM format is a pain to install. Please consider distributing some unsupported plain tarballs of Openmanage. Better yet, please consider open-sourcing and distributing source tarballs of Openmanage.
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| nixar | DRAC5 KVM -> give us a real app, not this plugin nonsense | 1 | May 25 2008, 5:39 PM EDT by tkld | |||
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Thread started: May 21 2008, 10:56 AM EDT
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The console GUI "feature" on DRAC5 is poorly implemented. It requires jumping through hoops, requires installing a plugin which doesn't work on 64 bit distribs on linux, or requires an ActiveX component on Windows+IE, something most sensible IT departments have disabled.
1. How about you just give us a stand alone app? From what I can tell by looking into the .XPI file for the pugin, there is one inside, although I can't get it to work. 2. How about you open the specification for the protocol, so that we can develop or adapt existing F/OSS programs for the task? As far as I'm concerned, this feature reeks of proprietary abandonware, and I have spent a few thousand € of my company's money with little to show for it.
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| kajtzu | omsa command line parameters | 0 | May 16 2008, 5:28 AM EDT by kajtzu | |||
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Thread started: May 16 2008, 5:28 AM EDT
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on linux it would be nice if omconfig and omreport (etc.) took getopt style parameters, especially the help side; typing -\? to avoid shell escapes is tiresome. ;-) --help or -h would be nice
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| emoenke | connect video | 0 | May 14 2008, 5:30 PM EDT by emoenke | |||
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Thread started: May 14 2008, 5:30 PM EDT
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I am really missing the "connect video" functionality of DRAC-III with the newer models.
It did work just within usual telnet or ssh connections, without any "compatible" browser or software and without the huge latencies introduced with the newer replacements. OK, it could present only a text console, but that would be sufficient for emergency actions over f.e. DSL lines.
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| Boozzard | Power Monitoring | 0 | May 9 2008, 12:45 PM EDT by Boozzard | |||
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Thread started: May 9 2008, 12:45 PM EDT
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I am sure you are well aware of the power restrictions in the datacentres of today. We are co-locating, as most medium business are, in a datacentre. We have 21 racks each of which are limited to 2KW. With the price of electricity increasing, we recently finished a 2 year contract during this time the cost of the racks increased from £4,500pa to £10,000pa, it is becoming increasinly important to insure that we are getting the best use out of our racks. We occasionally measure the power usage in our racks and most of the time we have underestimated the power and could probably save a rack, if we could organise the servers with the correct power usage.
We were concidering installing power metering into our racks so that we could monitor the racks in real time. So the inclusion of power metering into the PowerEdge servers is a great plus for us. This got me thinking about ITA and whether it could do a job for us. Could ITA have a similar display to the Dell Datacentre Capacity Planner where you could locate your servers in the correct racks and correct “U”. While the DDCP does a pretty good job in reality it seems to over estimate (for obvious reasons) the power usage. My “vision” here would allow for the following:- • Get better estimates of mixing the measured servers with DDCP estimates for older servers, over-ride DDCP estimates with a “similar” model real measurements • Get real power usage, max power usage & time of max of a rack of servers • In ITA move a Server to a new rack to test its power usage before physically moving it. This will test that it doesn’t over power the rack. • Trend and alert on rack power usage. • You could even get really clever and create virtual racks with shortcuts to real servers to test layout before moving servers around.
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| Stooartbaby | Monitoring - Diskspace | 0 | May 6 2008, 8:27 PM EDT by Stooartbaby | |||
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Thread started: May 6 2008, 8:27 PM EDT
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Hi Guys,
Being able to monitor disk space is great; it highlighted a number of servers with space issues within 20mins of monitoring being enabled in our environment. The ability to view the current day’s history and create a graph is exactly what we require... Would it be possible to enable a "date range" option so that we can more easily view the disk space trends over a longer period?
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| Stooartbaby | Software updates - via a particular server | 0 | May 6 2008, 8:13 PM EDT by Stooartbaby | |||
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Thread started: May 6 2008, 8:13 PM EDT
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Hi Guys,
If we wish to carry out a firmware/driver update, we go to the software repository and select the driver... we then choose the compliance tab and either use a saved query or selected group then click compare, select the appropriate server then click update. This is a bit convoluted... It would be great if we could do it in either of the following ways... Right click the server in the Devices tree, select a software update option and proceed... Right click the server in the Software updates tree, select a software update option and proceed...
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