Release Notes

– Change your passwords before updating the firmware.

– Use the following CLI command to change the password: omconfig rac users username=xx userpassword=yy where xx is

the original user ID and yy is the new password.

– Change the password through Server Administrator using the User tab. Make sure that the check box to change the

password is checked. Enter a new password, and then enter it again to validate the change.

* Use the racadm utility to change the password: racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i

<usr_index> <new_pwd> where <usr_index> is the index of the user database entry to be modified and <new_pwd> is

the new password.

• Depending on your network and proxy configurations and whether you are using Mozilla browser, you may need to enter the

exact IP address of the RAC controller, you are trying to access in the No Proxy for field of your browser.

Perform the following steps:

a. Open your Mozilla browser.

b. Click Edit.

c. Click Preferences.

d. Click Advanced in the left sidebar.

e. Click Proxies in the left sidebar.

f. Enter the RAC IP address in the No Proxy for: field.

g. Click OK and then close the browser.

• To view the RAC Web-based interface when using Mozilla 1.6, you must configure your cookie settings to Enable all cookies.

• To enable all cookies, go to the menu options and click Edit → Preferences → Privacy & Security → Cookies, and then select

Enable all cookies. If you do not perform these steps, you cannot log on to the Web interface and a message appears indicating

that your username and password are incorrect.

• DF384362: Redundancy Status displays as Not Applicable in ESXi even when NICs are teamed. On VMware ESXi systems,

NIC teaming status may not display up in the Server Administrator network section. This is an expected behavior due to the

operating system limitation and has no functional impact to the system.

• DF384061: Self-signed certificate does not enable the compatibility listener in Windows 2008 R2 managed node. On a Windows

2008 R2 managed node, a valid CA signed certificate is required to create compatibility mode WinRM Listener. You cannot

create a compatibility mode listener with a self-signed certificate.

• DF380725: On Internet Explorer or Firefox Web browsers, you cannot attach files to an e- mail if the filename contains non-

ASCII letters. To attach files to an e-mail, rename files to contain ASCII characters.

• On 12th generation of PowerEdge servers, Server Administrator displays the Embedded Systems Management (ESM) or

hardware logs. However, when the maximum limit for number of logs that can be recorded is reached, the existing oldest logs

are overwritten. But for 11th generation of PowerEdge servers or prior, when the maximum limit is reached, the information

logging is stopped.

• DF523827: On Citrix XenServer 6.0 or later, if the Alert on Console alert action is configured from the Server Administrator CLI

or GUI, the alert message may not be displayed in a readable format.

• BITS113585: Server Administrator does not log CPU or CMOS Battery Probe Alerts and does not send SNMP traps.

• To resolve this issue, stop the USB arbitration service and run the Inventory Collector. To stop the USB arbitration service:

a. Run the ps aux|grep usb command to check if the USB arbitration service is running.

b. Run the chkconfig usbarbitrator off command to prevent the USB arbitration service from starting during boot.

c. After the USB arbitrator service is stopped, reboot the server to allow the Inventory collector to run.

• DF520449: On all versions of the ESX, the following USB connection error messages are generated. These messages can be

ignored.

The following is a typical message:

Vendor

: iDRAC Model: MAS022 Rev: 1.00

Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02