"I tend to ignore the "informational messages" as it tends to throw out so many of them, however, I do make a mental note of the ones it gave. If I encounter a real problem, then I look back and determine if one of those messages made sense with the problem I am encountering.

If you used the latest Dell Setup disk to install the system, you should be good to go. "

Your response doesn't answer the question at all. Could you please actually answer the question. I know this is an old post and I have no idea what happened to mr hester but I am in the same exact situation as he was. What "should" we do. Should we ignore the message from Microsoft? and install the R2 IPMI anyway and cross our fingers? Or should we ignore the information from Dell openmanage Documentation? Specifically the Dell Openmanage "Installation and Security User's Guide" say's

"For Server Administrator, it is recommended that you use the Windows Server 2003 R2 IPMI driver instead of the internal IPMI support. If your system is running Windows Server 2003 R2 or Windows Storage Server R2, it is recommended that after you install or upgrade Server Administrator, you also install the optional Hardware Management component of R2."

Also nowhere is any information to determine which IPMI driver is installed in bios already .

So which is it?
and please be clear so I can procede.

Thanks in advance.

Mr John Bravo

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@Joe Liston:

The following answer was provided by PG engineering:

• The majority of the polling is offloaded to the iDRAC so OMSA only needs to poll every few minutes, thus reducing CPU load.
• Events (threshold violations) will cause an immediate poll, consuming more CPU cycles
• iDrac polling does not impact the performance of the host applications. This polling only utilizes the iDrac dedicated processor
• The polling rate is not configurable.

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