iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller Version 3.16.16.16 Release Notes

Limitations

• After an iDRAC reset or firmware update operation, the ServerPoweredOnTime (a property in RACADM and WSMan) may not be populated until the host server is restarted.
• Sometimes, when using WSMan, an Internal SSL Error is reported and the WSMan command fails. If this happens, retry the command.
• Due to known limitations in OpenSource (SFCB), query filtering with long integers and lengthy strings may not work as expected.
• If the LCD display is blank, press any one of the 3 LCD buttons to turn on the LCD before inserting a USB storage device.
• If Flex Address is enabled on Chassis Management Controllers (CMC), iDRAC and LC do not display the same MAC addresses. To view the chassis-assigned MAC address, use the iDRAC web interface or the CMC web interface.
• Windows operating system deployment may intermittently fail with the following error message: A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB drive, please insert it now. Reboot to LC and retry until the operating system is successfully deployed.
• Some of the supported components may not be displayed on the Firmware Update > View Current Versions page. To update this list, restart the system.
• While performing any network operation, LC may go into an infinite loop if there are network glitches, leaks, or packet loss. Restart LC and retry the operation with the correct NFS share name details.
• You may be unable to scroll using the keyboard. Use the mouse to scroll.
• If NPAR is enabled, LC might show unexpected behavior when configuring network settings. Disable NPAR and execute the network setting configurations. To disable the NPAR option, go to System Setup > Device Setting.
• When NPAR is enabled, the port numbers displayed on the LC Network Settings page (Settings > Network Settings) do not match the port numbers displayed on the Device Settings page (System Setup > Advanced Hardware Configuration > Device Settings).
• When Virtualization Mode is set to NPAR for Network Adapter that support the partitioning feature, PartitionState attribute can only be used for checking the state of partitions created for base partition in WSMan enumeration. You can see the states of all the partitions by pressing F2 during POST and going to Device Setting.
• The process of retrieving IPv6 address from the DHCP server with VLAN connection takes a few minutes. Wait for a few minutes and check the Network Settings page to view the assigned IPv6 address.
• Deployment of Windows Server operating systems (OS) using LC may fail with one of the following message:
  • Windows installation cannot continue because a required driver could not be installed.
  • Product key required.
  • Windows cannot find the software license terms.

  This happens when the Windows setup copies the driver to the scratch space (X: drive) and the scratch space becomes full. To resolve this issue, do any of the following:

  • Remove all the installed add-on devices before starting the OS installation. After the OS installation is complete, connect the add-on devices and manually install the remaining drivers using Dell Update Packages (DUPs).
  • To avoid physically removing the hardware, disable the PCle slots in the BIOS.
  • Increase scratch space size beyond 32 MB using DISM set-scratchspace command when creating customized deployment. For more details, see Microsoft's documentation.
• LC supports the following characters for username and password:

  Alphabets

  a-z, A-Z

  Numbers

  0-9

  Special characters

  - _ .

• If the iDRAC firmware update is interrupted, you may have to wait up to 30 minutes before attempting another firmware update.
• Firmware update is supported only for LAN on Motherboards (LoM), Network Daughter Cards (NDC), and network adapters from Broadcom, QLogic, and Intel, and some of the QLogic and Emulex fiber channel cards. For the list of supported fiber channel cards, see the Lifecycle Controller 3.15.15.15 User’s Guide available at www.dell.com/idracmanuals.
• After the CPLD firmware is updated on modular systems, the firmware update date is displayed as 2000-01-01 on the View Current Versions page. The update date and time is displayed according to the time zone configured on the server.
• On some modular systems, after a firmware update, the Lifecycle Log displays the time-stamp as 1999-12-31 instead of the date on which the firmware update was performed
• While viewing the current hardware inventory, some properties related to devices installed in PowerEdge VRTX system are not displayed.
• LC can import and view an iDRAC license but cannot export or delete the iDRAC license. The iDRAC license can be deleted from iDRAC GUI.
• The ISCSI offload attribute can be enabled only on two of the four available ports. If a card, which has this attribute enabled on two of its ports, is replaced with another card that has the attribute enabled on the other two ports, an error occurs. The firmware does not allow the attribute to be set because it is already set on the other two ports.
• In LC, not all the vendor FC cards are supported for VLAN configuration.
• LC displays two drive names for some CDs or DVDs, such as the ones containing operating systems.
• Network operations such as Update, Export, or Import may take more time than expected. The delay may occur because the source or destination share is not reachable or does not exist, or due to other network issues.
• If the operating system (OS) selected for installation and the OS on the media used are different, LC displays a warning message. However, while installing Windows OS, the warning message appears only when the bit count (x86 or x64) of the OS does not match. For example, if Windows Server 2008 x64 is selected for installation and Windows Server 2008 x86 media is used, the warning is displayed.
• LC does not support OS deployment on Dell Precision Workstation R7920.
• LC does not support SOCK4 proxy with credentials.
• LC UI supports share names and file paths that are up to 256 characters long. However, the protocol you use may only allow shorter values for these fields.
• Because of internal UEFI network stack protocol implementation, there may be a delay while opening the LC UI Network Settings page or while applying the network setting.
• The inventory displayed in LC GUI may not be the same as that of any iDRAC interfaces. To get the updated inventory, run the CSIOR, wait for 2 minutes, reboot the host, and then check the inventory in LC UI.
• Before performing any network operations, verify that the network is configured with the network cable connected. In some scenarios, a warning message may not be displayed but the operation may fail. Following are some examples that may lead to failure:
  • Static IP is configured without the network cable being connected.
  • Network cable is disconnected.
  • After a Re-purpose and Retire operation is performed.
  • Network is configured with the network cable connected but the network card is replaced later.
• If you set a user with only SHA256 password, for example, through SCP, you cannot delete the user using the GUI. To delete such a user, edit the user explicitly setting a password and then try to delete the user.
• Using WSMan, the attribute LCD.ChassisIdentifyDuration cannot be set to -1 (indefinite blink). To make the LED blink indefinitely, use the IdentifyChassis command with IdentifyState=1.
• RACADM supports the underscore character (_) for iDRAC.SerialRedirection.QuitKey along with the existing symbols shown in the integrated help.
• Using remote RACADM, if you use the racadm hwinventory export command to export the hardware inventory using an incorrect CIFS share, an incorrect message is displayed: RAC930 : Unable to export the hwinventory. If the issue persists, restart the iDRAC and then retry the operation after the iDRAC has finished restarting.
• If iDRAC is in lock-down mode, and you run the racadm rollback command followed by the racadm resetcfg command, an incorrect message is displayed: ERROR: A firmware update is currently in progress. Unable to reset the RAC at this time. Reboot iDRAC to display the correct error message.
• In certain cases, in Group Manager Jobs view, the completion percentage for a job may be displayed incorrectly (>100%) for a job in progress. This is a temporary condition and does not affect how Group Manager jobs are performed. When the job is completed, Group Manager Jobs view displays Completed successfully or Completed with errors.
• In certain cases, Group Manager Jobs view may not show a detailed error message for a member iDRAC job. For more information about the failure, review the job execution details in the Lifecycle Logs of the member iDRAC by using the GUI (Maintenance > Lifecycle Log) or by using the RACADM command racadm lclog view.
• If there are no slots available to add a new user in iDRAC, the Group Manager Job for Add New User shows a failure with error GMGR0047. Use the GUI (iDRAC Settings > Users) to verify the number of iDRAC local users.
• If the user does not exist on a specific iDRAC, Group Manager Jobs for Change User Password and Delete User show a failure with error GMGR0047. Use the GUI (iDRAC Settings > Users) to verify that the user exists.
• The Discovered Servers view of Group Manager may not show available iDRACs as available to onboard. Verify that the iDRACs are on the same link local network and not separated by a router. If they are still not visible, reset the Group Manager's controlling iDRAC.
  1. Open Group Manager on one of the member iDRACs.
  2. In the search box, type the controlling system's Service Tag.
  3. Double click the iDRAC that matches the search results and navigate to iDRAC Settings > Diagnostics.
  4. Select Reset iDRAC.

  When iDRAC fully restarts, Group Manager should see the new iDRAC.

• When setting the iDRAC Service Module (ISM) monitoring attributes from the GUI, if the BIOS watchdog timer is enabled, an error may be displayed but the attributes are set. To avoid the error, disable the BIOS watchdog timer or disable the ISM Auto System Recovery and then apply the attributes.
• Any changes to the network settings in iDRAC take effect after 30 seconds. Any automation or user verification needs to wait for 30 seconds before verifying the new settings. iDRAC returns the old active value till the new values take effect. Any DHCP settings may take more time (>30 seconds) depending on the network environment.
• If the system ID/Health LED turns from blue to off while running host stress test, press the ID button for one second and then press it again to turn on the LED.
• While using a Top or Skip command, if you enter a value greater than the unsigned long type (4,294,967,295), you may get an unrelated error message.
• Due to a limitation of Google Chrome browser, HTML5 vConsole intermittently displays the following error message: Chrome ran out of memory while trying to display the webpage.
• If an H730P adapter is installed in slot 9 (internal PERC slot) of PowerEdge T640, iDRAC displays it as H730P Integrated RAID Controller (Embedded).
• It is not recommended to perform CPLD update along with other updates. If a CPLD update is uploaded and updated along with other updates using iDRAC web interface, CPLD update completes successfully but the other updates do not take effect. To complete the iDRAC updates, reinitiate the updates.
• iDRAC features cannot access CIFS or Samba shares when only SMBv1 protocol is enabled. All iDRAC features work with SMBv2/SMBv3 protocol. For information on enabling SMBv2/SMBv3 protocol, see the documentation for your operating system.
• When accessing the iDRAC web interface for the first time using Google Chrome version 59.0, the mouse pointer may not be visible. Refresh the page to display the mouse pointer or use Google Chrome version 61.0 or later.
• Launching Virtual Console with Java plug-in fails after the iDRAC firmware is updated. Delete the Java cache and then launch the virtual console.
• Part-replacement of BOSS-S1 controller will not be detected by Lifecycle Controller. Follow the controller's user guide after replacement.
• Cryptographic Erase operation is not supported for hot-plugged NVMe disks. Reboot the server before starting the operation. If the operation continues to fail, ensure that CSIOR is enabled and that the NVMe disk is qualified by Dell.
• After downgrading iDRAC from this version to either version 3.00.00.00 or 3.11.11.11, the jobs created in the job queue are deleted. Recreate the jobs after the downgrade is complete.
• By default, iDRAC uses SMB1 protocol and all iDRAC features that use CIFS share will fail if SMB1 is disallowed on Windows/Samba mounts. To use CIFS shares, enable SMB 1 on the system where the share is located. This, however, may lower your system's security. To retain security and compatibility, it is recommended to upgrade your Samba server to version 4.0 or later, which supports SMB 2.0 protocol.
• If you use the HTML5 plug-in on Chrome version 61.0 to access Virtual Console, you cannot connect to Virtual Media. To connect to Virtual Media using the HTML5 plug-in, use Chrome version 63 or later.