Release Notes
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- Dell EMC iDRAC Service Module 3.6 Release Notes
- Release summary
- Compatibility
- New in this release
- Known issues
- Common issues
- A warning message indicating the iSM communication restart is observed in both iDRAC Lifecycle log files and operating system log files
- Job Queue page displays the job as Firmware Update instead of OSCollector
- Increased workload on the host interrupts the communication between iSM and iDRAC
- ISM0003 event message after replacing the system board
- Registering SupportAssist Enterprise
- Enabling operating system information
- Known issues on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Invoke-iDRACHardReset and Invoke-FullPowerCycle are not functional
- Alert message is displayed when OMSA is installed and TSR is requested
- An internal error occurred when running the DCIM_View class
- A popup is displayed when uninstalling iSM
- Running WMI MOF query on DCIM results with no data
- iSM communication with iDRAC switches from IPv6 to IPv4
- During the repair or modify operation on Microsoft Windows 2016 operating system installation, communication between the iSM and iDRAC is not established
- Known issues on Linux operating systems
- iSM communication with iDRAC is dropped, when Enable-iDRACAccessHostRoute feature is enabled and firewall service is disabled
- ipmi_si IPMI_driver does not respond after iDRAC hard reset
- InBand iDRAC Access feature is unavailable in IPv6 protocol
- AVC denial with iptables
- A message is displayed when invoking iDRAC GUI Launcher for the first time
- Known issues on VMware ESXi operating systems
- Common issues
- Limitations
- User notes
- Resources and support
- Contacting Dell EMC
New in this release
New supported operating systems
iDRAC Service Module 3.6 supports the following operating systems:
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9
● SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
● Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS
● VMware ESXi 7.0 U1
● VMware ESXi 7.0 U2
New and enhanced features
The following are the new and enhance features of iDRAC Service Module 3.6:
● Secure loading of libraries to prevent preloading on Linux and VMware ESXi.
● Monitoring of S.M.A.R.T attributes of chipset SATA devices under software RAID controller.
● Inclusion of Chipset SATA device's historic S.M.A.R.T log files into SupportAssist Collection.
● SupportAssist Auto Dispatch for disks for two events for VMware ESXi:
○ Predictive failure reported for physical disk.
○ A bad disk block on <device> cannot be reassigned during a write operation.
● Enhanced NVMe Prepare to Remove feature in Linux operating system—NVMe prepare to remove operation is not allowed
when a NVMe drive is in use or raw read and write operation is in progress on the NVMe drive.
● Enhanced iDRACHardReset and FullPowerCycle features—The iDRACHardReset and FullPowerCycle operations are
supported when secure boot option is enabled in the BIOS. The minimum BIOS version required is 1.5.3 for yx5x AMD
server.
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