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May 16th, 2025 21:15
Server Administrator Going Away?
I thought I heard SA is being discontinued, is that true? That seems like a bad idea. I find it more accurate, informative and reliable than iDrac monitoring. I know that's the direction Dell has been pushing, but it's too clunky for prime time. Presumably it is due to the predominance of virtualization, but some of us still have a lot of physical servers.
It seems like Dell software development has gone downhill in general. Open Manage Enterprise is quite poor and seems like a step backwards from Essentials, even as simple as it was. Even firmware update software is obviously given minimal Q&A given the bad English contained.
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DELL-Young E
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May 19th, 2025 04:00
Hello, to answer your question, please see this.
PowerEdge: OpenManage Server Administrator is going End of Life | Dell US
Respectfully,
Nobodyimportant
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June 11th, 2025 21:39
@DELL-Young E This is annoying. That means you can only run Raid functions by rebooting and going into the configuration menu. The OME method is way too clunky, and who wants to fool with racadm commands.
DELL-Joey C
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June 12th, 2025 00:05
Hi,
Well, not necessary rebooting and accessing into PERC BIOS for configuration, iDRAC can too do configurations.
I know it's sad to say goodbye to the useful OMSA and the acceptance of OME is erratic, some do not like it, some do. Perhaps it's more on growing on it. No one like changes.
But if you do find any issues, bugs or feature request, do please contact the OME support to raise a case. Similar to OMSA, it relied on feature request cases previously.
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June 13th, 2025 22:06
@DELL-Joey C Thank you, I do see now that you can run Perc actions in the iDrac. I couldn't find it before even though it was right in front of me.
The problem with OME is it's just bad, not just a matter of getting used to it. Alert messages are really poor, over-sized and not customizable. Server info is much less convenient to find than it was in Essentials. With Essentials you could see a fair bit of info on one screen, such as OS, hardware and IP info, external enclosure info including physical drives etc.
OME is completely useless with external enclosures. The iSM stuff is really clunky because it muddies your network config and sometimes interferes with regular network operation. So I get DBAs wondering why Oracle suddenly stopped working and various other problems. I can fix it but sometimes the config restores itself after reboot. At this point I'm wondering if maybe something like Zabbix would work better. But my suggestion is to save some money and just get rid of OME, it seems beyond hope.