Users Guide

What is new in this release
This release of CMC for Dell PowerEdge FX2/FX2s supports:
• Performing racresetcfg from CMC GUI.
• Enabling Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 cryptography.
• Disabling AC Power Recovery.
• Updating the OpenSSL open source package to version 1.0.2f.
• Updating the OpenSSH open source package to version 7.1p1.
• Updating glibc to version 2.23 to address new security vulnerabilities.
• TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.1 by default.
• User configuration option to enable TLS 1.0 using RACADM.
• Configuring SNMPv3 using RACADM commands.
• Querying the health status of the chassis components using WSMan.
• Initiating Quick Deploy of blade through RACADM.
• Configuring CMC using WSMan for the following features:
– Host name of chassis
– IP Configuration
– DNS
– DNS Registration
– NTP
– Change Default Password
• Sending alerts when the power state of an IOM changes and when power-on of IOM fails.
• Populating CMC Device name in the inventory.
Management features
CMC provides the following management features:
• Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) registration for IPv4 and IPv6.
• Login management and configuration for local users, Active Directory, and LDAP.
• Remote system management and monitoring using SNMP, a web interface, integrated KVM, Telnet, or SSH connection.
• Monitoring — Provides access to system information and status of components.
• Access to system event logs — Provides access to the hardware log and chassis log.
• Firmware updates for various chassis components — Enables you to update the firmware for CMC, iDRAC on servers, storage
sleds, and chassis infrastructure.
• Firmware update of server components such as BIOS and network controllers across multiple servers in the chassis using
Lifecycle Controller.
• Dell OpenManage software integration — Enables you to launch the CMC web interface from Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator or OpenManage Essentials (OME) 1.2.
• CMC alert — Alerts you about potential managed node issues through Remote syslog email message or SNMP trap.
• Remote power management — Provides remote power management functions, such as turn off and reset of any chassis
component, from a management console.
• Power usage reporting.
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption — Provides secure remote system management through the web interface.
• Launch point for the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) web interface.
• Support for WS-Management.
• Multi-node Sled adaptation. PowerEdge FM120x4 is a multi-node Sled.
• Chassis Power Limit Monitoring.
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