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March 13th, 2013 15:00

OMCI 8.1.1 & Dual Monitors

I recently deployed OMCI 8.1.1 across the board in my organization and found that I have a handful of systems where the 'DSM SA Data Manager' service will not start.  I receive an 'Error 1067:  The process terminated unexpectedly.' message.

It's not tied to any certain model or BIOS version, so I ran process monitor to determine what was going on behind the scenes and all of the ones with issues starting last enumerated HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\DISPLAY before terminating.  That's when I realized that all of the computers with issues have dual monitors.  In fact, I only have 1 machine with dual monitors working out of the whole bunch.

I dug deeper and found that the issue lies with one registry value:  'EDID' under Device Parameters.  If I remove that entry for particular display(s), the 'DSM SA Data Manager' service will start as expected.

I see that this value contains the monitor model number, maybe serial number, as well as all kinds of other information, so removing it is probably a bad idea.

I tried calling Dell to speak with the OpenManage group, but the Desktop guys point to the Server guys and the Server guys point back at the Desktop guys.  Is this a bug with OMCI?  Has anyone else ran into this before? 

Tim

October 8th, 2013 08:00

We have tried all means to reproduce this issue but somehow not been able to. I have two 19" VGA monitors on O780 and O9010 and the issue is not reproduced. We are working to reproduce this and update on the fix at the earliest.

February 17th, 2014 07:00

We have root caused the issue and hope that the next release of OMCI will fix all the multiple display issue.

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February 17th, 2014 08:00

You guys are great  :emotion-1:  Thank you

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February 25th, 2014 02:00

Hi, i could reproduce the error while the laptop was connected via DisplayPort
(Latitude 7440 @ dockingstation).

The service started when I used the HDMI connector!!!


br

Arislan

March 3rd, 2014 11:00

Thanks for getting it to our notice.  We shall check if the current fix works on this too.

March 3rd, 2014 23:00

Hi Arislan,

Can you provide the information of model of the docking station and also the monitor information

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March 4th, 2014 02:00

Dockingstation: Dell E-Port II

Screen: Eizo EV2736W / Eizo EV2335W

March 14th, 2014 03:00

Hi Arislan,

All our testing is based of Dell monitors only, I would recommend you to raise a ticket with our support team in this regards.

September 8th, 2014 05:00

Hi All,

We have worked on a fix with Dell Command | Monitor v9.0 (rebranded name for OMCI). Request you to kindly update your results with the latest release

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May 6th, 2015 22:00

I've deployed OMCI 9 (Command | Monitor) on all clients and this is officially resolved now.

Tim

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