Release Notes

• Configure VNC Server to view remote desktop using mobile devices
• Configure LOM or USB NIC as the OS to iDRAC Pass-through channel
• Enable or disable I/O Optimization
• Enabling events to be logged into OS log
• Export the Lifecycle log entries to a network share or to the local system.
• Improved Virtual Media menu options:
o Connect or disconnect Virtual Media session from Virtual Media menu.
o Specify the location of the image file that is created from the folder.
o Create an image from the folder without enabling Virtual Media session.
o New interface when Virtual Media is launched in standalone mode.
• Combined detailed Virtual Media performance statistic with Virtual Console statistic in Stats dialog
• Removed Remote File Share from First Boot device and Next Boot list
• Clear SEL logs.
• Display SEL logs in iDRAC Settings Utility.
• Record log in, log out, and log in failure events in the Lifecycle Controller logs.
• Store certificate permanently in user's certificate store. Disabling Warning Messages While Launching
Virtual Console Or Virtual Media Using Java plug-in.
• Improved Remote File Share options.
• Use the iDRAC Service Module to perform monitoring functions similar to Server Administrator but in an
out-of-band environment.
• Configure SNMP and SMTP ports
• Schedule automatic remote diagnostics
• Switch on or switch off the front panel LED from System Summary page
• Use wildcard certificates
• Use certificates signed by an intermediate CA
• Generate Tech Support Report similar to Dell System E-support Tool report
• Display the following information for storage devices:
o Sector size that the physical disks and virtual disks uses to store data.
o Wear-out level or remaining life of the Solid State Drive (SSD) connected to a PERC.
o T10 Protection Information (PI) capable drives supported by the controllers.
o T10 PI capability for physical disks.
o T10 PI capability is enabled or disabled for the virtual disk.
o Controller boot mode support for controllers.
o Enhanced auto import of foreign configuration is enabled or disabled for the controller.
o Spans with different span length support for RAID 10 Virtual Disks.
iDRAC7 – Fixes
• If common logging is enabled in iDRAC7, CEM storage inventory takes more than 40 minutes. If
common logging is disabled (default setting), CEM storage inventory takes up to four minutes
for the maximum configuration.
• Launching Virtual console using Google Chrome browser, does not launch Java Web Start
automatically even after mapping launch application.
• On PowerEdge M420 blade servers, the iDRAC GUI's WWN/MAC page reports the A1 and A2
network devices as reversed on systems in sub-slots b and d. A1 MAC addresses are reported in
the A2 section of the iDRAC Web interface, and A2 MAC addresses are reported in the A1 section.
MAC addresses for systems in sub-slots a and c are reported correctly.