We were asked by DELL supporter to update iDRAC again for a hardware support, from 6.02.00.00 to 6.10.00.00. After updating, the secure web access to iDRAC failed with error:
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Additionally, a 400 Bad Request error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
After doing some tests, I have the following conclusions/workarounds:
1. the secure web access failed when using the FQDN of iDRAC interface
2. using the IP or short hostname works with the secure web access
3. setting iDRAC.WebServer.ManualDNSEntry to have the FQDN included won't solve the issue
4. disabling idrac.webserver.HostHeaderCheck aslo works, but could not open virtual console viewer
I tried to use racadm command 'sslresetcfg' to regenerate the certificate, but only short hostname used as Common Name (CN) and also only the short hostname listed in the DNS alternative name. By the way, we have DNS BMC/RAC Name and DNS Domain name correctly configured.
It looks like to me a new bug in version 6.10.00.00. Though there are not issues with the IP and short hostname access, it is still annoying since we have FQDN defined and linked everywhere.
Indeed, this seems fixed in later version. I just updated one of our nodes to version 6.10.80.00, the issue described in my first post has gone. When I was testing iDRAC version 6.10.30.00, the issue was sill there.
Yes, I have reset the DRAC for many times in order to debug the issue and check the results of different configurations. The resets were done by racadm command line since we can still access with ssh.
The server mode is PowerEdge C6420, from download pages, the version 6.10.30.00 is still not available for me to download. When it is available, I definitely will try this version.
drain flea power (shut down, disconnect power cables and Network cables, hold in power button 20 seconds with cords removed).After flea power drain, system has to set for 3 minutes for DRAC to reset without any power plugged in, then plug in NIC and power but wait 2 minutes before power on to give DRAC time to initialize.
Would you let us know your server model?I see an iDRAC9 firmware 6.10.30.00 update but I don't know if it is for your model.
DELL-Charles R
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Indeed, this seems fixed in later version. I just updated one of our nodes to version 6.10.80.00, the issue described in my first post has gone. When I was testing iDRAC version 6.10.30.00, the issue was sill there.