Release Notes

PMBus support in the PSUs, the power values displayed on the GUI pages, including the
Overview
->
Hardware
->
Front Panel
page, may not be correct.
• Due to the independent nature of the alert processes (e-mail, SMTP, remote syslog), when changing the
licenses that affect alert features (example, email alerts for Express or remote syslog for Enterprise) there is
no guarantee of the timing of the features being activated or deactivated when the license changes.
• In the iDRAC web interface, when the
System Inventory
page is accessed for the first time, it takes up to
two minutes for the inventory data to be collected. After the data collection is complete, refresh the page
to display the inventory data.
• Make sure to synchronize the iDRAC time with the management station’s time to avoid certificate related
issues. If the time is not synchronized, issues such as server certificate expiration may be seen. If this
occurs, re-synchronize iDRAC time with the management station’s time and reboot iDRAC.
• On a system running Linux, after launching the Virtual Console, if you click a menu item and it remains
open, the Ctrl + Alt + L keystroke sent from iDRAC to the host system does not lock the host system. The
behavior is same as using a local keyboard.
• The default time zone value is US Central Time. To make sure Single Sign-On (SSO) and Directory Service
TFA (smart card) continue to work properly, the iDRAC time zone must match the time zone where iDRAC
is located, assuming Active Directory server's time zone is already configured to match the Active
Directory's location.
For example, if Active Directory server is located at US Eastern time zone and iDRAC is located at US
Pacific time zone, Active Directory server has to be configured as US Eastern time zone (this is Active
Directory server configuration and is normally configured), and iDRAC must be configured as US Pacific
time zone. For more information to configure the time zone, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access
Controller 8 (iDRAC8) and iDRAC7 v2.10.10.10 User's Guide.
• If the management station is using MAC operating system, it takes more time to launch the Virtual Console
due to the following DNS search issue:
http://www.eigenspace.org/2011/07/fixing-osx-lion-dns-
search-domains
.
• The help page for the Export and Import of Server Profile feature does not provide the correct share name.
See the Web Services Interface Guide available at Dell TechCenter for the correct share name.
• Remote Sys Log settings take effect only if you do the following:
- Enable remote syslog feature
- Specify the server address and port number
- Enable
Remote SysLog
option on the
Alerts
page
• When creating a Virtual Media image from a folder, the output image file size is at least 512 MB.
• To launch Virtual Console using Java plug-in, only JavaWebStart versions 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7 from Sun
(Oracle) is supported. Any other versions or any other installations are not supported.
• On a server running RHEL operating system, performing the following steps can create an eth*.bak
interface (where * is the interface number). This is visible in the Network Manger interface. This interface
can be safely ignored.
1. After the operating system (RHEL) is running, enable OS to iDRAC Pass-through channel through
the iDRAC web interface.
2. Disable OS to iDRAC Pass-through.
3. Reboot or power cycle the server, and then re-enable OS to iDRAC Pass-through.
• Any change in VNC server settings disconnects the active VNC session.
• USB NIC is supported on RHEL 6.5 32-bit and RHEL 6.5 64-bit operating systems. On any Linux operating
system, for https://idrac.local to work, the avahi, nss-mdns, and dependent packages must be installed.
• CIFS supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses but NFS supports only IPv4 address.
• During POST, if the system displays cable detect message: "CBL0001: Backplane 0 power cable
disconnected", you must check all the backplane cables as this message is not limited to Backplane 0 only.
• Do not reboot the host while RAID rebuild is in-progress. If the host is reset, IDSDM is also reset.
• On certain iDRAC versions, creating vFlash partition and downloading DUP images may take a little longer
than usual due to updated open source packages.