Release Notes – Intel® Data Center Manager Console 3.5.1

Intel® Data Center Manager Console is a web GUI application which provides features mostly focusing on data center energy management based upon Intel® Data Center Manager SDK.

What’s New 3.5.1

· Intel® DCM Console 3.5.1 has been updated to include up-to-date 3rd party components (Jackson lib 2.9.9.3, PostgreSQL 9.6.15; removed splashscreen.dll, freetype.dll, and libsplashscreen.so), which includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.

· Resolved IPMI cipher suite 17 compatibility issue for iLO4 based devices.

What’s New 3.5

· Weight Capacity Management

· Enhanced inventory support

· BIOS configuration for Intel S2600WFT, S2600ST, S2600BP servers

· Replaced Oracle JDK with OpenJDK

· Support additional platforms (Lenovo n1200 enclosure, ServerTech PDU, SMC chassis, SMC micro server)

· UI / Usability improvements

· System / Component Failure Analysis by model & location

· RAID health support for selected HP and DELL servers

· System health monitor for iLO4, iLO5, iDRAC 9, XClarity Controller, and Huawei iMana based servers

· Security enhancements

What’s New 3.4

· Intel® Data Center Manager Console 3.4 has been updated to include up-to-date 3rd party components (PostgreSQL 9.6.11, JRE 8 update 202, Tomcat 7.0.92, bouncycastle 1.60, Jackson 2.9.8, Xalan 2.7.2, zlib 1.2.11; commons-fileupload 1.3.3, javamail 1.6.1, smtp 1.6.1, Pio 3.1.7, removed Dom4j , replaced axis2 with cxf 3.2.7), which includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.

· Lightweight Asset Management

· Grouped Email Notification

· Server Health Recovery Report

· SSD Life Span Estimation

· Usability improvement for firmware update

· Inventory information support (experimental)

· Enhanced BMC Console URL support (as an alternative for KVM access)

· Expose web API for data extraction

· UI improvements

· Security enhancement

· Additional OS support (SLES 15, Debian v9, Windows Server 2019)

What’s New 3.3

· Server model reliability statistics

· Firmware upgrade for Intel S2600WFT, S2600ST, S2600BP servers (experimental)

· SSD health monitoring through in-band

· FPGA health monitoring

· Display rack view

· EMC VNX 5700 storage support

· Hitachi chassis support

· Huawei MM910 chassis support

· Cisco blade management through UCS manager

· HPE PDU support

· Hoffman PDU support

· ServerTech / Raritan PDU temperature monitor

· HP Procurve switch / Racktivity PDU support

· Lenovo PDU support

· New Eaton PDU support

· Cisco Nexus Switch support

· Support CentOS 7.5

· Support Ubuntu Server 16 and 18, drop the support for Ubuntu Server 12

· Support Debian v8.11

· Improved AD authentication

· UI improvements

· Performance improvement

· Security improvement

What’s New 3.2

· High availability support

· New UI enhancement

What’s New 3.1

· Brand new look and feel

· Multi-tenancy

What’s New 3.0

· SNMP alert receiving

· Humidity data trending

· Telemetry hub data display with proper configurations on Node Manager 4.0 SKUs

What’s New 2.9

· Energy comparison report

· Searching device by power state (on/ off)

What’s New 2.8

· Server component health status monitoring

· Lenovo AMM component health status monitoring

· Server age distribution

What’s New 2.7

· Out-of-band remote KVM

· Real time server sensors monitoring

· Cisco UCS blade level modeling

What’s New 2.6

· Support (row level) cabinet PDU modeling and what-if analysis

· Visualize blade servers in a chassis

· What-if power and space capacity analysis

· Predictive failure analysis of server fans (experimental feature)

What’s New 2.5

· Device placement based on power and space capacity

· Server model distribution

· Server component faults UI improvement

· Power capping support for IBM IMM2 platform

· Cooling anomaly detection (experimental feature)

What’s New 2.4

· New widget on server component faults

· More options in the rack power capacity view

· Additional data elements and visualization on advanced telemetry for Node Manager 3.0 platforms

· Experimental support for platforms based on Redfish standard and rack scaling architecture

What’s New 2.3

· Chatsworth daisy chain support

· Historical datacenter layout

· Support stopping import task

· Per datacenter dashboard

· More OSes support (refer to System Requirements)

What’s New 2.2

· Improved PDU support in hierarchy and logical group

· Chatsworth Gen1 and Gen 2 PDU support

· New user role (power user) support

· Rack orientation in visualized layout

· Fahrenheit support (experimental feature)

What’s New 2.1

· LDAP support

· 2D orthogonal thermal map (row level front-panel thermal visualization & room level thermal visualization)

· Power/space capacity view in physical layout

· Improvements on physical layout (e.g., configurable origin position, tooltips adjustment, unavailable area modeling, etc.)

· Export hierarchy

What’s New 2.0

· Visualize layout of racks in a room

· Support enclosure level monitoring on IBM CMM platforms

· Provide a new device status gadget for an overview of device management status

· Provide out-of-band resource utilization (Compute Usage Per Second: CUPS) data on Grantley servers

· Provide improvements on powering on/off server or servers

· Support reporting power of unmanaged chassis by aggregating blade power data with a multiplier

· Support disabling power/temperature monitoring capability on certain servers with incorrect data reported

What’s New 1.5

· Support IBM enclosure temperature monitoring

· Support including enclosure temperature in cooling analysis

· Support IBM x240 compute node monitoring

· Support blade level modeling for IBM blade systems

· Provide what-if power-utilization analysis with power prediction

· Provide email alert

· Support power-on/off server or servers with batch policies

· Improve the scalability of the product

What’s New 1.4

· Provide Active Directory integrated authentication

· Support Chatsworth PDUs and rack temperature monitoring through Chatsworth PDU temperature sensors

· Provide enhancements on the command line tool

· Provide improvements of Virtual KVM Gateway functions which is enabled through certain license options

What’s New 1.3

· Provide the console of Virtual KVM Gateway functions which is enabled through certain license options

What’s New 1.2

· Support searching devices according to device model, connection status, and capability

· Support task management of importing hierarchy/devices

· Provide a command line tool to manipulate hierarchy

· Provide a new widget of power data summary with peak power data and top power consumers.

What's New 1.1

· Support monitoring and limiting enclosure level power consumption of enclosure of HP ProLiant SL Scalable system.

· Support blade level modeling for Dell and HP enclosure.

· Provide static power profiles for EMC and NetApp storage device.

· Support associating in-band communication channel to out-of-band IPMI devices to monitor in-band CPU utilization.

· Support guest role authorization.

· Provide event reminders of sound and blinking.

· Support Ubuntu Server 12 x64.

Feature List

Dashboard	The feature provides an overview of datacenter power and temperature status.
Emergency Power Reduction	The feature provides the mechanism to throttle the power of all the devices with power capping capability to the lowest level at datacenter or room level.
Event	Two types of event are supported: device generated event and customized threshold based event.
Data Center Hierarchy Management	The feature provides the functions of manipulating physical hierarchy of the datacenter.
Visualized Rack Layout	The feature provides the visualized layout at room level and 2D orthogonal thermal map (row level front-panel thermal visualization and room level thermal visualization)
Visualized Rack	The feature provides the rack view with power and temperature data.
Capacity Planning	Capacity Planning based on power, space, and weight constrains.
Device Management	The feature provides the functions of manipulating devices supported in Intel® Data Center Manager.
Network Discovery	The feature discovers devices supported in Intel® Data Center Manager given the IP range and device credential.
Import Device and Hierarchy	The feature provides the function of importing device and hierarchy from MS Excel file.
Power and Temperature Historical Trending	The feature provides the trending of power and temperature data.
Power Policy	The feature provides power control functions at both the device level and the physical group level.
Cooling Analysis	The feature analyzes the temperature data, evaluates the cooling status, and provides the cooling optimization suggestions.
Low Utilization Server Identification	The feature analyzes the power data to identify servers with low utilizations.
Failure Indicator	Estimate the probability of being unhealthy for servers / components.
Server Power Characteristics	The feature analyzes the power data to identify power characteristics per server model.
Group	The feature provides the mechanism to group devices with certain common characteristics defined by users.
Power Estimation	The feature estimates power for devices without power monitoring capability.

System Requirements

Intel® Data Center Manager Console has been validated on the following operating systems (64-bit version) and web browser:

· Microsoft Windows Server 2012

· Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

· Microsoft Windows Server 2016

· Microsoft Windows Server 2019

· Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Server x86_64

· Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Server x86_64

· Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 x86_64

· Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 x86_64

· Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 x86_64

· Ubuntu Server 16.04 x86_64

· Ubuntu Server 18.04 x86_64

· CentOS 6.9 x86_64

· CentOS 7.5 x86_64

· Debian 8.11 x86_64

· Debian 9.5 x86_64

· Mozilla Firefox 67

· Google Chrome 74

· Microsoft Edge 41

It is recommended to install the Intel® DCM Console server on a system with at least:

· A dual-core processor of 2.6 GHz or higher

· 8GB RAM

· 80GB of hard drive space

Below is recommended configuration for a scaled environment (e.g. managing up to 20,000 IPMI based nodes):

· 2 * Intel® Xeon® CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz

· 24GB RAM

· 400GB SSD

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