Release Notes

• Virtual Console Viewer from iDRAC8 Web interface terminates when the managed system is
restarted.
• A pop-up message is not displayed to confirm if test emails are successfully sent or not.
• For iDRAC8 Enterprise, when the Virtual Console is disabled and Virtual Media is disabled and/or
detached, the console port (default: 5900) remains open. For iDRAC8 Express (no Virtual
Console or Virtual Media) the console port is open.
• If auto-negotiation is enabled while setting iDRAC8 network, 1 Gbps is not supported and you
cannot manually select it.
• A USB device mounted through Virtual Media in floppy emulation mode for a Linux operating
system shows as a removable volume.
• During system power operations, if the video mode changes, the message "Out of range" may
appear for a short while on the Virtual Console.
• When using the Virtual Console in native console mode with Pass all keystrokes to server
disabled in Internet Explorer versions 8 and 9, if an F1/F2 prompt is encountered, pressing F1
displays the Virtual Console online help pop-up in addition to continuing with the system boot.
• When any of the storage enclosure components are removed, the corresponding details are not
displayed. Only the name and status attributes are displayed.
• When certain RAID operations are requested using WS-MAN on non-RAID cards such as, the
Dell SAS 6Gbs HBA or the Internal Tape Adapter, the operation succeeds, however the job fails
with the error message "Unable to locate device in current configuration".
• If the iDRAC8 network is configured to use a shared LOM and the spanning tree is enabled on
the LOM port, WS-MAN and remote service commands may time-out in the following scenarios:
- At system reboot
- When CSIOR is running
- While entering SSM
The connectivity lost is variable. In typical cases, it is approximately:
- 40 seconds at system reboot and varies per NIC or link speed
- 20 seconds when CSIOR is running
- 40-60 seconds while entering SSM
• The reason is that when spanning tree is enabled, the switch does not allow the link to re-
establish the connection after a reset until it completes checking for network loops. Server
reboots reset the NIC and disconnects the link.
Note : This does not occur while using dedicated NIC because server reboots do not affect the
dedicated NIC.
• When logging in to iDRAC8 Web Interface using Internet Explorer 9 and IPv6 address, the
connection may not succeed. To resolve this, make sure that in
Internet Explorer -> Tools ->
Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings , the Use automatic configuration script
option is cleared.
• On PowerEdge systems with cabled power supply units installed (that is, PSUs which do not
provide PMBus support), power values may still be displayed in the iDRAC8 Web and LCD
interfaces. Due to lack of PMBus support in the PSUs, the power values displayed on the GUI
pages, including the
Overview -> Hardware -> Front Panel page, are not correct.
• Due to the independent nature of the alert processes (e-mail, SMTP, remote syslog), when
changing the licenses that affect alert features (example, email alerts for Express or remote
syslog for Enterprise) there is no guarantee of the timing of the features being activated or
deactivated when the license changes.
• In the iDRAC Web interface, when the System Inventory page is accessed for the first time, it
takes up to two minutes for the inventory data to be collected. After the data collection is
complete, refresh the page to display the inventory data.
• Make sure to synchronize the iDRAC time with the management station’s time to avoid
certificate related issues. If the time is not synchronized, issues such as server certificate
expiration may be seen. If this occurs, re-synchronize iDRAC time with the management
station’s time and reboot iDRAC.