Release Notes

Resolution
• Before deleting the license, change the Network Selection option from Dedicated to Shared. To access the
Network Selection option, on the iDRAC web interface, click iDRAC Settings-> Network-> NIC Selection.
• In case the license has expired, perform one of the following steps:
o Reboot the server, press F2 during POST, and set the Network Selection option to Shared.
o Install the local RACADM tool in the host server and execute the following commands to switch the
network selection to LOM:
To set to LOM1 — racadm set idrac.nic.selection 2
To get NIC selection — racadm get idrac.nic.selection.
For help on the command, type racadm help idrac.nic.selection
Versions/Systems Affected
All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC7.
Issue 253227:
Description
Occasionally, after changing NIC Selection, you may not be able to set NIC Failover.
Resolution
Reboot iDRAC or perform an AC power cycle to clear the issue.
Versions/ Systems Affected
All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8 2.21.21.21
Issue 265271:
Description
Custom thermal settings such as fan speed offsets, exhaust temperature, and custom Minimum Fan Speed are lost after
an iDRAC reset or when AC power cycle is performed.
Resolution
Upgrade to iDRAC version 2.30.30.30.
Versions/Systems Affected
Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC version 2.20.20.20 or 2.21.21.21 and with the custom thermal settings applied.
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.