Release Notes

Issue 42:
Description
If you log in to the iDRAC8 Web interface with Login and Config iDRAC privilege, then on the Update
and Rollback page, an additional Firmware Settings submenu appears.
Resolution
None
Versions/Systems Affected
All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Issue 43:
Description
On the Network Devices page, the Initiator and Storage Target Settings table overflows to the right if
you set the initiator name and chap ID value with more than 120 characters.
Resolution
Reduce the zoom level or use the scrollbar to see view the entire data.
Versions/Systems Affected
All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
iDRAC8 - 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.