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The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to this guide for this current release. The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes made to this guide or of all new features in this release.
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Description |
Where Documented |
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Support for Selecting Multiple Servers |
You can select multiple rack servers and perform various actions such as powering on/off, hard reset, power cycle and so on. |
For the various actions, see sections under Inventory and Fault Status for Rack Groups |
Managing Tags for All Rack Groups |
You can select the top level rack groups, select multiple servers and manage tags for all the selected servers. |
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Collecting Inventory for Multiple Rack Accounts or Rack Groups |
You can manage your rack accounts or servers better by collecting inventory for one or more rack accounts or rack groups. |
Collecting Inventory for Multiple Rack Accounts or Rack Groups |
Assigning Rack Accounts to a Rack Group |
You can assign a server or multiple servers to a rack group from the Systems menu. |
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Support for HTTP(S) Based Network Images for Firmware Upgrade |
You can download and add a firmware image from a network server using the HTTP/S server type option available in the Firmware Management Menu. |
The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to this guide for this current release. The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes made to this guide or of all new features in this release.
Feature |
Description |
Where Documented |
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FlexFlash Inventory |
You can view the details of FlexFlash adapters used in the server such as Controller Info, Physical Drives and so on. |
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Enhancement to Managing Firmware |
New UI enhancements are available for Firmware download and upgrade and you can view the images hosted in IMCSupervisor and on the network separately from the UI. It now supports downloading local images for new M4 models and E-Series. |
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Managing Policies and Profiles |
Support for managing policies and profiles has been introduced in this release. You can now create hardware policies by configuring various properties such as BIOS, LDAP, Users and so on. A combination of existing set of hardware policies make up a profile. You can now apply configuration details of a rack server profile for example, to multiple rack-mount servers. You can also associate this hardware profile to specific rack-mount servers. You can perform various management tasks such as adding, editing, and deleting hardware policies and profiles. |
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Email Alerts |
You can create, update, or delete multiple email alerts. Alert levels are introduced for each email alert sent. |