VxRail: Node Health-check Fails for Test idc_as

Summary: VxVerify test 'idc_as' (iDRAC Admin State) checks the iDRAC Admin-State and Pass-Trough mode.

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Symptoms

VxVerify test 'idc_as' (iDRAC Admin State), queries the iDRAC Admin-State and Pass Through (PT) mode. This checks that they return 'Enabled' and 'usb-p2p', respectively.

The results of this health-check are one of the following results:

Test Result Result code Result Interpretation

Pass

0

 Settings are 'Enabled' and 'usb-p2p', respectively.

Warning

1

 Admin-State or PT-mode is not set correctly.

Failure

2

 This test has no failure result.

Critical

3

 This test has no critical result.

Each test that passes is not listed in the summary report, for ease of reading.
An example of the health-check output is shown below:

#========================#======#=========#====================================================================#==============#
|  Hostname / Category   |Status  Dell_KB |  Warnings or Failures, unless tests Passed                         ; Product S.N. |
#========================#======#=========#====================================================================#==============#
| _cluster               | Warning  43170 | idc_ac: AdminState not enabled                                                   .|

 

Cause

iDRAC tests only apply to Dell nodes and are bypassed for Quanta.
This test queries the iDRAC Admin-State and PT-mode, which should return 'Enabled' and 'usb-p2p', respectively.

 

Resolution

These settings can be corrected in the iDRAC user interface, to match the following:
iDRAC Settings

Check the minion logs and VxTii report for more information about the information returned from iDRAC. These can typically be found in the vxv log folder, such as /tmp/vxv.
See KB article 498837: VxRail: iDRAC settings that can not be changed for iDRAC troubleshooting.

 

Affected Products

VxRail, VxRail 460 and 470 Nodes, VxRail Appliance Series, VxRail G Series Nodes, VxRail D Series Nodes, VxRail D560, VxRail D560F, VxRail E Series Nodes, VxRail E460, VxRail E560, VxRail E560F, VxRail E560N, VxRail E660, VxRail E660F, VxRail E660N , VxRail E665, VxRail E665F, VxRail E665N, VxRail G560, VxRail G560F, VxRail P470, VxRail P570, VxRail P570F, VxRail P580N, VxRail P670F, VxRail P670N, VxRail P675F, VxRail P675N, VxRail S Series Nodes, VxRail S470, VxRail S570, VxRail S670, VxRail Software, VxRail V Series Nodes, VxRail V470, VxRail V570, VxRail V570F, VXRAIL V670F, VxRail VD-4510C, VxRail VD-4520C, VxRail VD Series Nodes, VxRail VE-660, VxRail VE-6615, VxRail VP-760, VxRail VP-7625, VxRail VS-760 ...
Article Properties
Article Number: 000043170
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 09 Jun 2025
Version:  7
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