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Release notes 4.4
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Open Manage Network Manager – Release Notes
Package Release Numbering: 4.4
The following is the format for release/version numbers:
<ProductID>.<Major Version>.<Minor Release>.<Maintenance
When contacting Customer Support, please refer to the complete release number
for components, which is in the Help > About Box. The versions mentioned below
refer to component versions rather than the package.
Note
You can upgrade to this release only from OMNM 4.3. Upgrades from other versions of OMNM are
not supported. Also: If you upgrade, you must re-register any additional licenses you have pur-
chased by opening the Settings > Permissions > Register Licenses menu, and locating the license
upgrades you have installed previously. (3446)
This OpenManage Network Manager release adds support for new PowerConnect
devices as well as several significant firmware updates. Many known bug fixes are
also included.
Caution
Do not install this software when a command or oware shell is open. Close the shell first.
Also: Even though the installer allows it, do not select an IPv6 address during installation. It is not
supported.
Some notes below refer to OpenManage Network Manager as OMNM. Use the
numbers at the ends of notes below for reference when you contact tech support.
Significant New Features in This Release
The following sections are application notes. See also
Equipment
however it has been tested for Windows only on both 32- and 64-bit operating
system versions. Linux works even on their 64-bit versions, as long as the 32-bit
libraries are installed. Windows 2003 Server 64-bit on Dell 64-bit hardware is the
reference test platform for Windows.
General
• OpenManage Network Manager now comes with a license to manage up to
10 Dell devices, and up to 50 unknown, other devices. OpenManage Network
Manager supports only more limited (SNMP-only) management for unknown
devices, but you may be able to upgrade to complete management with
optional add-ons.
• Supported devices now include the following:5524, 5548, 5524P, 5548P,
7024, 7024P, 7024F, 7048, 7048P, 7048R, 7048R-RA, M8428-K, M8024-K, J-
SRX100S, J-SRX100SU, W-620, W-650, W-651, W-3200, W-3400, W-3600, B-
Release>.<Build #>
on page 14 for equipment-related notes. This is a 32-bit application,
Supported Functionality and

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  • Page 1 Windows. General • OpenManage Network Manager now comes with a license to manage up to 10 Dell devices, and up to 50 unknown, other devices. OpenManage Network Manager supports only more limited (SNMP-only) management for unknown devices, but you may be able to upgrade to complete management with optional add-ons.
  • Page 2 Windows 2008 R2 and some have claimed that it works fine with R2. OpenManage Network Manager 4.4 how- ever is only officially supported on the R1 version of Windows 2008 Server.
  • Page 3 Open Manage Network Manager – Release Notes • OpenManage Network Manager can automate sending e-mail if a configura- tion file changes. If the e-mail attachment describing config changes is empty, now the e-mail sent says “No changes” in the subject. (8934) •...

  • Page 4: Known Issues

    Ports manager view. (12800) • If you collect performance data, the more you collect, and the slower the machine you use to run OpenManage Network Manager, the longer a dash- board with that data takes to appear. (12939) General •...
  • Page 5 Open Manage Network Manager – Release Notes • On rare occasions, the job viewer displaying discovery progress may display overlapping or jumbled information. Workaround: Open this discovery screen in Audit Trails. (PV-8639) • SSH with stricthostkey checking = yes is not supported (5350) •...
  • Page 6 • Some hot keys (for example [Alt]+s) do not work in the revised Discovery wiz- ard. Workaround: Use the mouse rather than hot keys. (8313, 8314) • A benign warning sometimes appears when OpenManage Network Manager clients shut down. (8686) •...
  • Page 7 • Newly created filters do not appear until you close and reopen a manager. (4443) • When you make a copy of any OpenManage Network Manager user group, you only copy a set of the current permissions. If an upgrade introduces new permissions, the copy is not updated;...
  • Page 8 (1493) • Cannot start application server manually. Workaround: Install with applica- tion server installed as a process (so it starts with Process monitor) or go to \Dell\OpenManage\Network Manager\oware\bin\owcommonfunctions , and modify the section starting GetServerVMHeapSize to set MaxPermSize=128m (1831) • The Discovery Wizard sticks at Select Devices to be discovered panel if a device is marked licensed ->...
  • Page 9 100,000—generat- ing the print job or preview will adversely impact performance. If this occurs, OpenManage Network Manager may freeze. (750) • Printing Topologies—If you change the page orientation to landscape then print, label text appears backwards and upsidedown on Japanese Windows XP Pro.
  • Page 10 Open Manage Network Manager – Release Notes • Devices discovered without a supporting device driver installed support Direct Access functionally with telnet and SSHv1 (not SSHv2). (43237) • To see all available content, you may have to resize subpanels when looking at Audit Trails in a web client.
  • Page 11 Open Manage Network Manager – Release Notes Users who have configured the web server to use SSL can run $OWARE_USER_ROOT/oware/bin/updatetomcatcert to generate a new cert and update the keystore if the certificate has expired. All recent releases include a certificate which does not expire for approximately 100 years. (SCR 43257) •...
  • Page 12 Audit Trail queries for type of audited messagess. Event Management • OpenManage Network Manager supports multiple IP addresses per resource. During event processing, filters that include IP address criteria may behave incorrectly when OpenManage Network Manager evaluates the filter.

  • Page 13: Issues Fixed

    Issues Fixed General • Modified calculation of Notifications Batched to include remaining (1) notifi- cation before OpenManage Network Manager adds it to the queued batch (12468) • If you click on the overall “portal” form (the screen that contains all others), the Edit Property dialog box disappears behind the portal.
  • Page 14 • Alarm screen shows alarms for Dell devices. • Port Manager displays tells what ports are in use across the network.
  • Page 15 Release Notes and Readme for the firmware itself. (8507) • OpenManage Network Manager receives all data from the Dell 62xx device, but if the Last Update day is more than a single digit, then the entire data table disappears, and OpenManage Network Manager displays a Form Error.
  • Page 16 • To disable LAG Spanning Tree on a 62xx, you must set the Path Cost to a min- imum of 1. Leaving path cost at 0 will cause an SNMP error. (6304) • Dell devices have an SNMP Management Station entry in their web pages that specifies a destination for SNMP communication. If this does not include the address of the mediation server (in single host installations this is the application server), discovery will fail on the SNMP get step.
  • Page 17 OpenManage Network Manager as duplicates because the Local Port ID is supposed to be unique. (12464, 12409) • OpenManage Network Manager will not telnet connect to some devices if they use the factory default password. You must set the password to some- thing other than that default.
  • Page 18 (13250) • Support for JUNOS version 10.3. (12140) • When executing CLI transaction OpenManage Network Manager now syn- chronizes on the management IP address so only one session per device can exist at any one time. (11405)