Vcenter Integration - Problem with iDRAC Enterprise on R710

2.40.40.40 also broke ours as well (R620's). Rolled back and it is working properly again. Eagerly awaiting a fix.

Same problem here!  Updating R620/R730 to 2.40.40 and OMIVV stops working.  I think in both cases we also install OMIVV 3.1 from scratch because it was a vSphere 5.x -> 6.0 upgrade and customer have 2.3 installed.

It looks like that OMIVV complains about not see a iDRAC Enterprise LIC but thats not the the true. A "reset" from withn the iDRAC GUI doesnt help. I havent tried  winrm yet but i dont see a difference there when speaking about a reset.

The LCC LOG doesnt show a login try or failure when running the connection test from OMIVV.

Regards
Joerg

Tried the new 2.41.40.40 released yesterday, but still no connection through DOMIVC :emotion-6:

What Version is your IDRAC? Everything equal and above 2.40.40.40 seems no longer to work with DOMIVC.

Tried the new 2.41.40.40 released yesterday, but still no connection through DOMIVC :emotion-6:

Hey guys,

we did some testing here and found out that this is related to actual iDRAC firmware. A downgrade to 2.30.30.30 solved it in our test scenario.

We are working on a new iDRAC firmware version and will solve this issue with the next firmware release. But this may take several weeks to get released, no direct information / date available right now.

Please be patient till the new relaese is released in near future.

Cheers,
Stefan

Hi,

after a bit of research I stumbled accross a KB Article from Dell. Short version: Problem is that the firmware versions from 2.40.40.40 upwards have the default SSL Security set to TLS 1.1. This is a problem for DOMIVC because DOMIVC only supports TLS 1.0. When you switch back security setting to TLS 1.0 in iDrac Webinterface (IDRAC Settings -> Network -> Services -> TLS-Protocol) on the updated iDRACs you can connect with DOMIVC again.

Stefan said the Problem would be fixed in next iDrac Firmware, I don't think that this will happen because of security concerns when Dell would switch back the default setting to TLS 1.0 again. I think we have to wait for an updated DOMIVC.

The above workaround is the fix unless an updated DOMIVC with TLS 1.1 support is released. But think of the security implications  (which you would also have when you switch back to firmware older than 2.40.40.40).

Best regrds,

Bjoern

Correct.

Regards
Joerg

We apply 3.1.1.150 on a 3.1.0.134 installation for a customer and OMIVV was able to detect the iDRACs again :emotion-1:

Regards
Joerg

I'm trying it right now.  

So to be clear, you have a customer on 2.40.40.40 of iDRAC with SSL set to the highest version of TLS and they can connect from OMIVV to iDRAC with version 3.1.1.150 of OMIVV?

I can verify that it did work.  I didn't change the TLS settings from the default.  Installed this new version of OMIVV.  Used it to upgrade iDRAC+Lifecycle on an M630 to 2.40.40.40.  It still works and communicates just fine. 

Thanks for the tip, Joerg.

Thanky you Joerg. I have installed the hotfix and everything is working fine again. No tinkering with TLS settings on iDRAC needed.

The only thing I find kind of sad is that no one from Dell has shown us this opportunity. The hotfix seems available since November 24th. Would have spared me a few hours this week ...

Again many thanks to Joerg.

Best regards,

Bjoern

Hi,
The reason it isn't publicly available is that this patch is still in beta and is only distributed to customers that have a support ticket for this issue.

Hi,

ah ok, now I understand why this was not posted earlier. Thank you Martijn.

Best regards,

Bjoern