Release Notes

Issue 47:
Description
When you update the rebrand image from the iDRAC Web interface, the system reboots and the
rebranded images are applied successfully. During POST, if you press <F10>, the Lifecycle Controller UI
starts to launch. The progress bar displays till 90% and then the system starts rebooting.
Resolution
After rebranding, do not access Lifecycle Controller UI.
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.
• The e-mail address specified in iDRAC8 Web interface -> Overview -> iDRAC Settings ->
Network -> SSL -> Generate Certificate Signing Request (CSR) page is not validated.
• On a Linux management station with Matrox drivers, from the Virtual Console Viewer if you
access the iDRAC Chat window, the mouse appears flickering inside the chat window.
• Work notes can display up to 255 characters. If any of the characters are special characters or
non-alpha numeric characters, then the total number of characters displayed is less than 255 to
accommodate overriding special characters.