iDRAC9 Version 4.32.10.
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Contents Chapter 1: Release summary..........................................................................................................6 Priority and recommendations..........................................................................................................................................6 Chapter 2: Compatibility............................................................................................................... 7 License Requirements...........................................
During POST, the host system is temporarily unable to communicate with iDRAC......................................... 23 Uploaded firmware link not available in the SoftwareImages property in Redfish............................................ 23 PCIe types and lanes information not getting populated using Redfish.............................................................. 24 iDRAC reboots while collecting SupportAssist logs..................................................................................
Networking and IO............................................................................................................................................................ 35 OS deployment.................................................................................................................................................................. 35 Security....................................................................................................................................................
1 Release summary The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) is designed to make server administrators more productive and improve the overall availability of Dell servers. This release adds multiple fixes and enhancements that improve iDRAC stability. Version iDRAC9 4.32.10.
2 Compatibility Topics: • • • • • • License Requirements Supported systems Previous versions Supported managed server operating systems and hypervisors Supported web browsers Supported software License Requirements iDRAC features are available based on the purchased license. ● ● ● ● iDRAC Express—Available by default on all blade servers, and rack or tower servers of 600 or higher series iDRAC Enterprise—Available on all servers as an upgrade iDRAC Datacenter—Available on all servers as an upgrade.
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Supported managed server operating systems and hypervisors ● Microsoft Windows ○ Server ○ Server ○ Server ○ Server ○ Server ○ Server ○ WinPE ○ WinPE ● Linux 2016 Essentials 2016 Standard 2016 Datacenter 2019 Essentials 2019 Datacenter 2019 Standard 5.0 64-bit 10 ○ RHEL 8.2 ○ RHEL 7.8 ○ RHEL 7.9 ● SLES ○ SLES 15 SP2 ● Ubuntu ○ Ubuntu 20.04 ○ Ubuntu 18.04.4 ● VMware ○ ESXi 6.7 U3 ○ ESXi 7.0 U1 Supported web browsers ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Microsoft EDGE Safari 12.
● Dell does not provide support or maintenance for Adopt Open JDK. ● Dell makes no express warranties, and disclaims all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement as well as any warranty arising by statute, operation of law, course of dealing or performance or usage of trade regarding Adopt Open JDK. ● Dell has no liability to you for any damage that arise out of or relate to your use of Adopt Open JDK.
3 New and enhanced features Topics: • • iDRAC and LC firmware Hardware - Server or storage platform specific iDRAC and LC firmware ● Added an option to disable Remote Presence Port responses when web server redirectionis enabled. ● Added backup and restore option for Liquid Cool settings using Easy Restore. ● Added backup and restore option for Group Attribute Registry's (AR) using Easy Restore.
4 Fixes Topics: • • iDRAC and LC firmware Hardware - Server or storage platform specific iDRAC and LC firmware ● ● ● ● ● 171176: Fixed an issue that caused Remote File Share and SNMP/SMTP alerts to fail. 167868: Fixed an issue that was not allowing iDRAC to display the Network Devices. 176792: Fixed an issue that caused Quick Alert configurations to fail. 174022: Fixed SCP import failures caused by logical disk creation issues. 173848: Fixed an issue that stopped VD attributes from displaying any value.
5 Deprecated features The following table displays the features that are listed as Deprecated* or Removal**: Features iDRAC9 iDRAC9 for PowerEdge Rx5xx/ Cx5xx SM-CLP Removal Removal VM CLI Removal Removal VFlash Deprecated Removal Backup and Restore Deprecated Removal RBAP and Simple Identity profiles Removal Removal WSMan Deprecated Deprecated DCIM_account profile Removal Removal Deprecated*-No longer being updated or new features added.
6 Important notes 1. While performing a firmware update or rollback through LifeCycle controller GUI, the component information displayed in the table listing the available updates may be truncated if it exceeds the table column or row width. 2. If SOL session is active for a long duration or if the system is rebooted multiple times, the SOL session gets terminated automatically. 3. Critical event PDR1016 will not be generated when M.2 drives from the BOSS-S2 controller are removed since M.
27. If you install OMSA while iSM is already installed and connected, iSM may restart after the OMSA installation is complete. 28. After iDRAC is upgraded to version 4.00.00.00 or later for the first time, there may be a change in network settings option including IPv4 and IPv6. Reconfigure the network settings to resolve this. 29. After iDRAC is upgraded to version 4.00.00.00 or later, you may stop receiving encrypted email alerts from iDRAC, if the external email server does not support encryption.
a. diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 MAC: a. umac-64 b. umac-64-etm@openssh.com 46. This note is applicable only to PowerEdge M640 and FC640. When performing BIOS Recovery operation, host may not turn on. To recover from this condition, do a virtual/physical reseat operation of the blade server. 47. After updating the iDRAC firmware, LC logs may display Message ID PR36 that "Version change detected for PCIe SSD firmware. Previous version:X.X.X, Current version:X.X.X.
66. Install SEKM license before you update the iDRAC to SEKM supported version 4.00.00.00 or later. If you install the SEKM license after updating the iDRAC to SEKM supported version, you have to reapply SEKM supported iDRAC firmware. 67. If you are configuring a Gemalto based KeySecure SEKM Server with iDRAC, and to get the redundancy feature functional, copy the certificates manually from primary Gemalto KeySecure cluster to secondary Gemalto SEKM KeySecure cluster.
7 Known issues — To be fixed in future releases Topics: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 18 LC Log missing device information Partial information displayed for Mellanox Cards False iDRAC reboot reported in LC logs Cleared Virtual Addresses returning OS Deploy method through Redfish API fails for images that support trusted boot Support Assist collection freezes at 91% Firmware update of NVMe drive attached to PERC controllers from iDRAC interfaces i
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • No errors when the selected component and the selected device firmware do not match PCIe SSD Backplane 2 is displayed as unknown Firmware update operation not scheduled through WSMan Access to serial interface fails.
Workaround Perform any of the following: ● Disable and reenable IOIDOpt attribute (iDRAC.IOIDOpt.IOIDOptEnable) and then perform any reboot (warm/cold/AC power). ● Disable or clear all the persistence policies by deselecting all the reboot types (warm/cold/ac) and reboot the system. Systems affected All systems supported by this release.
Workaround N/a Systems affected All systems supported by this release. Tracking number 181413 DellCertificateCollection URI response not according to DMTF standards Description An array of members are missing in Dellcertificatecollection resource collection. Without the members this resource collection is not compliant to DMTF standards. Workaround N/a Systems affected All systems suppored by this release Tracking number 164791 Unable to set Virtual Node GUID on ConnectX-6 VPI card.
Inaccurate ConfigResult for VD entries observed Description After updating the controller mode for newly created Non-RAID VDs to eHBA mode using SCP import, inaccurate ConfigResults may be displayed. This is a cosmetic issue and has no functional impact. Workaround Use any iDRAC interface to verify the job. Systems affected All systems supported by this release. Tracking number 170240.
iDRAC DUP update fails in Linux operating systems when secure boot is enabled Description On all Linux Operating Distributions, while secure boot is enabled, if you perform iDRAC DUP update, it fails with an error "This Update Package is not compatible with your system." Workaround For iDRAC DUP updates, use other interfaces such as iDRAC GUI, RACADM, or WSMAN. Systems affected All systems supported by this release.
Tracking number 156737 PCIe types and lanes information not getting populated using Redfish Description When Get method is performed for PCIe slots schema, slots that do not have a PCIe card populated the PCIe types and lanes are displayed empty. Workaround N/A Systems affected All systems supported by this release.
Workaround Reset iDRAC. Systems affected All system supported by this release. Tracking number 158951 Intel Coldstream NVMe drives appearing as cryptographic erase capable Description While performing LC Wipe, the Intel Coldstream NVMe drives are displayed in the Cryptographic Erase Disks list. These drives do not support cryptographic erase and will report an error in LC Logs if cryptographic erase is attempted. Workaround To erase the data from the drive, perform a manual wipe.
iDRAC Firmware Update page not responding Description Query parsing error is observed while parsing the SQL query with a space in some properties. While updating iDRAC firmware through the Dell EMC Lifecycle Controller update wizard, the progress bar may cycle continuously if multiple large downloads are selected. Workaround Use any other iDRAC interface to apply the update. Systems affected All system supported by this release.
Workaround Scripts may be edited to remove the space between properties to be selected in the WSMan Query parameter. Systems affected All systems supported by this release. Tracking number 153493 Attributes for CNA cards not displayed through Redfish or RACADM interface Description If the partitions are disabled on FCoE capable CNA cards, few HII attributes values for WWN, VirtWWN, WWPN, VirtWWPN are displayed in the iDRAC GUI's Network page.
Unable to create a recurring job after same recurring job was completed Description Creating a recurring job will fail if the same job was completed recently and its Task ID still exists. Workaround Wait for ten minutes for the Task ID to be deleted Systems affected All systems supported by this release. Tracking number 147501 Unable to create virtual disk through Redfish Description On physical disks configured with software RAID, creating virtual disk is not supported in Redfish interface.
Tracking number 151475 No errors when the selected component and the selected device firmware do not match Description While updating a component firmware using Component or Device update filter in OME-Modular, if the DUP device firmware selected is for another component, then the update goes through without any errors and device firmware for the relevant component is updated instead of the one selected. Workaround Use the firmware rollback option to downgrade the firmware to the previous version.
Remote File Share (RFS) does not stay connected after downgrading iDRAC Description RFS does not stay connected after downgrading the iDRAC and user cannot reconnect and will not have access to the files mapped through RFS. Workaround Disable and re-enabling Virtual Media or restarting iDRAC Systems affected All modular systems supported by this release.
Get method on UefiTargetBootSourceOverride attribute shows null value Description After performing Patch method on the attribute UefiTargetBootSourceOverride successfully, then the GET method on the attribute shows value as null. Workaround N/A Systems affected All systems supported by this release. Tracking number 152088 Sluggishness in Virtual Console Description You may experience slight delay while accessing Virtual Console in Edge browser using HTML5 plug in.
Get operation not displaying model or serial number for PCIe devices Description If you perform a Get operation for a PCIe device using Redfish API, the response may not display the model and serial number of the device. Workaround N/A Systems affected All systems supported by this release.
8 Limitations Topics: • • • • • • • • • • • Authentication Automation — API and CLI BIOS and UEFI Hardware iDRAC and LC firmware Monitoring and alerting Networking and IO OS deployment Security Storage and storage controllers SupportAssist and parts replacement Authentication 1. LC supports the following characters for username and password: ● Alphabets (a-z, A-Z) ● Numbers (0-9) ● Special characters (-, _, .) 2.
Hardware 1. In LC, not all the vendor FC cards are supported for VLAN configuration. 2. If an H730P adapter is installed in slot 9 (internal PERC slot) of PowerEdge T640, iDRAC displays it as H730P Integrated RAID Controller (Embedded). 3. Blinking operations are not supported on the Virtual disk created on BOSS-S2 cards. iDRAC and LC firmware 1. Due to known limitations in OpenSource (SFCB), query filtering with long integers and lengthy strings may not work as expected. 2.
Networking and IO 1. While performing any network operation, LC may go into an infinite loop if there are network glitches, leaks, or packet loss. Restart LC and retry the operation with the correct NFS share name details. 2. If NPAR is enabled, LC might show unexpected behavior when configuring network settings. Disable NPAR and execute the network setting configurations. To disable the NPAR option, go to System Setup > Device Setting. 3.
● Product key required ● Windows cannot find the software license terms This issue occurs when the Windows setup copies the driver to the scratch space (X: drive) and the scratch space becomes full. To resolve this issue, do any of the following: ● Remove all the installed add-on devices before starting the OS installation. After the OS installation is complete, connect the add-on devices and manually install the remaining drivers using Dell Update Packages (DUPs).
9 Firmware and driver update 1. After an iDRAC reset or firmware update operation, the ServerPoweredOnTime—a property in RACADM and WSMan—may not be populated until the host server is restarted. 2. Some of the supported components may not be displayed on the Firmware Update > View Current Versions page. To update this list, restart the system. 3. If the iDRAC firmware update is interrupted, you may have to wait up to 30 minutes before attempting another firmware update. 4.
10 Miscellaneous 1. You may be unable to scroll using the keyboard. Use the mouse to scroll. 2. Due to a limitation of Google Chrome browser, HTML5 virtual console intermittently displays the following error message: Chrome ran out of memory while trying to display the webpage. 3. When accessing the iDRAC web interface for the first time using Google Chrome version 59.0, the mouse pointer may not be visible. To display the mouse pointer, refresh the page or use Google Chrome version 61.0 or later. 4.
11 Updating iDRAC firmware Topics: • • • Downloading iDRAC firmware installation file Updating iDRAC firmware from host OS Updating iDRAC remotely using iDRAC web interface Downloading iDRAC firmware installation file About this task NOTE: For information about updating iDRAC firmware using various interfaces, see the iDRAC User's Guide available at https://www.dell.com/idracmanuals.. Steps 1. Go to https://www.dell.com/support. 2. In the Enter a Service Tag, Serial Number...
9. To view the status of the firmware update, click Job Queue. Results After the update is complete, iDRAC restarts automatically.
12 Lifecycle Controller Remote Services — client tools OpenWSMAN CLI OpenWSMAN CLI is an open source Linux WSMan client. You can use OpenWSMAN CLI to send WSMan commands to Lifecycle Controller. OpenWSMAN CLI source code and installation details are available at sourceforge.net/projects/openwsman/files/wsmancli. Sample OpenWSMAN CLI Command for an enumeration operation: wsman enumerate http://schemas.dmtf.
13 Lifecycle Controller Remote Services — client tools Redfish API For information about Redfish, see the DMTF website https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish.This website provides access to schema files, white papers, technical notes, and so on. For iDRAC Redfish API guide, go to www.api-marketplace.
14 Resources and support For more information about the features of this release, see the documentation for iDRAC 4.xx. Latest Release Notes To access the latest Release Notes for this version of iDRAC: 1. 2. 3. 4. Go to www.dell.com/idracmanuals. Click the link for the generation and then click the firmware series of iDRAC. Click DOCUMENTATION. Click MANUALS AND DOCUMENTS. Accessing documents using direct links You can directly access the documents using the following links: Table 1.
6. Click MANUALS AND DOCUMENTS.
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