Release Notes

Versions/ Systems Affected
All Dell 12th generation PowerEdge systems downgraded from 2.10.10.10 to 1.66.65.
Issue 60:
Description
iDRAC loses connectivity on Failover NIC.
Resolution
Restart iDRAC.
Versions/ Systems Affected
All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Issue 61:
Description
The watchdog timer expired error is logged in the SEL on deleting an iDRAC license file.
Resolution
None.
Versions/ Systems Affected
All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC Service Module (iSM) enabled from 1.65.65 to 2.10.10.10.
iDRAC - Limitations
• If floppy emulation is enabled when a bootable USB key is mounted as a Virtual Media from the Virtual
Console and if you try to delete any file from the mounted USB key (floppy), the blue screen appears
immediately.
• Web server session time-out is not exact. It is either 10% more or 15 seconds more, whichever is greater.
• WinRM and RACADM commands may become unresponsive during BIOS update or when setting BIOS,
NIC, or RAID attributes through Lifecycle Controller.
• If invalid credentials are used for the maximum login attempts, the IP is blocked for the duration of the IP
Blocking Penalty Time and a message is not displayed.
• If Internet Explorer (IE) 64-bit browser is used to log in to iDRAC8 Web interface and when viewing the
power usage graph, the X and Y axis labels appear too small to read. This is a known limitation for IE 64-bit
only. The labels appear correctly in IE 32-bit browser.
• On Linux management stations, if Firefox is launched from the root user, a USB key is mapped in Virtual
Media successfully. If Firefox is launched from any user other than the root user, a USB key is not shown
for mapping because the user must have root privileges to access all the low-level drives.
• Alert notification for battery events does not work.
• Operating system information on the System Summary page does not display after rebooting iDRAC8 until
the operating system is rebooted.
• iDRAC8 users with user names containing a semi-colon (;) cannot log in to iDRAC8 through SSH.
• In the iDRAC8 web interface, the power consumption sensor reading may have a rounding error of up to
13 Watts depending on the actual power reading. This is an IPMI limitation. The power cap, power graphs,
cumulative power, and peak power are not affected by this inaccuracy. However, the power values shown
in the power graphs are average values over a period of time and should not be used to calculate
instantaneous power.
• Virtual Console uses self-signed certificates. Due to this, when launching Virtual Console from some
management stations with Windows operating systems, a certificate warning appears.
• Virtual Console in dual monitor mode is not supported and hence the behavior is undefined, especially
using Java plug-in. The primary console is used as the target console.