Users Guide

Introduction

This guide provides information and step-by-step instructions on how to install iDRAC Service Module on the supported operating

systems.

The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller(iDRAC) Service Module is a lightweight optional software application that can be installed

on yx2x servers or later. The iDRAC Service Module complements iDRAC interfaces – Graphical User Interface (GUI), RACADM CLI,

Redfish, and Web Service Management (WSMan) with additional monitoring data. You can configure the features on the supported

operating system depending on the features to be installed and the unique integration needs in your environment.

The iDRAC Service Module architecture uses IP socket communication and provides additional Systems Management data (OS/device

driver) to iDRAC and presents one-to-many consoles with access to Systems Management data through OS standard interfaces.

Topics:

• What’s New

• Supported features—operating systems matrix

• Documentation conventions for Dell EMC devices

• Coexistence of OpenManage Server Administrator and iDRAC Service Module

• Software availability

• Downloading iDRAC Service Module

• Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site

• Software license agreement

• Other documents you may need

What’s New

• Support for yx5x server R7525

• Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 operating system (64-bit)

• Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 operating system (64-bit)

• Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 operating system (64-bit)

• Support for Ubuntu Server 18.04.03 LTS (64-bit)

• Support for VMware ESXi 6.7U3

• Support for VMware ESXi 6.5U3

• Support for Microsoft Windows 10 RS5 Client Operating System.

• Support for IPv6 communication between iDRAC Service Module and iDRAC over OS-BMC Passthru channel on Microsoft Windows

Operating Systems.

• Secure loading of libraries to prevent DLL pre-loading attacks on Windows operating systems.

• Monitoring of S.M.A.R.T attributes of chipset SATA controller devices under AHCI mode.

• Correlation of software events to hardware failures in the Lifecycle Log for Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct(S2D).

• SupportAssist Auto Dispatch for disks (for below two events) for Linux Operating systems

• Predictive failure reported for physical disk.

• A bad disk block on <device> cannot be reassigned during a write operation.

• Inclusion of below logs in SupportAssist Collection(SAC)

• Chipset SATA device's S.M.A.R.T logs.

• Storage Spaces Direct(S2D) logs.

Supported features—operating systems matrix

The following features are supported on yx2x, yx3x, yx4x, and yx5x servers:

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