Dell EMC Metro node 7.0.1 Release Notes

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Known issues

At the time of release, metro node has the following known issues:

Table 1. Known issuesFor 7.0, Patches, and Service Pack
Issue number	Functional area	Description	Workaround
VPLEX-26775	UI	When there are no storage views present on the system, then you are not able to go to the Storage View page from the System Status and System Health dashboards directly.	Go to the Storage View page through the Provision Storage menu, then from the drop-down select Storage Views from the View By drop-down, then selectCreate. Once one storage view is created, then from the main status dashboard click the Storage Views circle to create the storage views.
VPLEX-27760	UI	Performance Dashboard hover-over statistics window may get stuck across other pages.	Refresh the page from your browser.
VPLEX-28757	UI	Online Help page navigation buttons (back, forward, up, print) may cut by page content and be difficult to use.	Buttons are still clickable with careful attention.
VPLEX-29215	CLI	health-check --configuration shows several unexpected errors.	It is not supported.
VPLEX-37220	System configuration	If re-typed new password entry does not match with the new password entry, then system prompts again for new password, and it goes in loop.	Give the new password and re-type the password correctly in the first attempt. If the system request for new password again and again, then press Ctrl+C to start the process again.
VPLEX-37442	System configuration	The command vplex system config —reset fails because the WAN COM ports are not present at the NSFW level during the reset.	For vplex system config —reset to work, the WAN COM ports must be available at the NSFW level.
VPLEX-37482	CLI	If a part of the collection takes more than 2 hours to finish, the collect-diagnostics command may appear to fail. Although the CLI session ends with the message "`Connection closed by foreign host`," but the collection continues in the background. The user is unable to re-enter the CLI to continue monitoring the process.	For collection progress, monitor the file /diag/collect-diagnostics-tmp/collect-diagnostics-<date>-<time>.log. For a final collect-diagnostics bundle, when the collection starts, the content of the files in /diag/collect-diagnostics-out/ should match.
VPLEX-37535	Upgrade	When a user chooses to roll forward, the SCIF is inconsistent after ndu recover.	To resolve SCIF inconsistency, run vplex_system_config port_toggle enable IO-00 -n director-1-1-A on any of the first upgraders.
VPLEX-37552	System configuration	A user cannot run system_config --cw-reset on a partly configured CWS. If the CWS configuration fails, the user should not run the CWS reset option.	The CWS reset option is not supported on a partially configured setup.
VPLEX-37688	UI	The HTML5 UI performance dashboard charts may appear 'choppy', or have missing data points between the lines plotted.	Follow the KBA 000331967 (Delete perpetual monitors and restart the VPlexCLI which will automatically re-create the monitors).
VPLEX-37720	UI	Unable to update the LDAP/AD certificates in metro node.	Remove existing LDAP/AD configuration and reconfigure using updated certificates. For removing and configuring LDAP/AD, see Authenticate Directory Service document available at https://solve.dell.com/solve/home/30.
VPLEX-37787	UI	The LDAP/AD configuration in metro node is not backward compatible.	Before upgrading from 7.0/7.0 P1 to 7.0.1, remove existing LDAP/AD configuration and reconfigure it post upgrade to 7.0.1. For removing and configuring LDAP/AD, see Authenticate Directory Service document available at https://solve.dell.com/solve/home/30.
VPLEX-38097	CLI	For <director>/ports/<port>::sfp-status, the CLI displays a value of DIAG_PAGE_CHECKSUM_FAILED.	Ignore this parameter and the SFP status, this concept does not apply to the metro node platform.
VPLEX-38208	System configuration	If a collect-diagnostics is running and a system_config operation that updates the config (SCIF) file is performed, then the collect-diagnostics process restarts and the system tar file is missing in the output .tar.gz file. The system tar file is not generated.	Avoid making system configuration changes while a collect-diagnostics is running. If the collect-diagnostics file is missing key files after a system_config change, then to get the missing system tar file either re-run the entire collect-diagnostics or re-run only the new collect-diagnostics collection part using the linux command: curl -X POST (http://localhost:9007/vplex/diag/collect-jobs ).
VPLEX-38239	System configuration	In rare cases, a metro node director is unavailable to boot waiting on a user input with `CBL0009: Backplane connector is not connected`.	Restart the director. It resolves the issue as it was discovered to be a false negative when BIOS/POST checks for the presence of internal connection within the chassis.
VPLEX-39333	UI	Non-service users are unable to log in to the metro node UI.	Use the service user to log in to the UI.
VPLEX-39742	UI	The following report capacity-related CLI commands are not available, starting from 7.0.1 release. report capacity-arrays report capacity-clusters report capacity-hosts They will be restored in a future release.	Follow the KBA 000194939 (Metro node: 7.0 SP1 Report Capacity-related Commands Are Not Available which will re-enable them).