Dell OpenManage Power Center 4.1 Release Notes

Issue 1: The power graph is blank while viewing the power (or temperature) history.

Description: When viewing the power history (or temperature) of a selected group in the 15 minute/1H window, the graph is blank.

Possible cause: OpenManage Power Center has just been installed and has not collected enough data to provide a power history graph.

Resolution or workaround: It is recommended to wait as OpenManage Power Center collects appropriate data to present the graph.

Issue 2: Though I have edited and saved the IPMI key, the next time I open the saved IPMI profile, the key is once again displayed as 0000….

Description: The key might have changed, and the you may have updated the value . However, while the display should read the value as xxxx… as the key is encrypted, the encrypted key is instead displayed as 0000….. There is no difference between the display 0000…. and xxxx….

Resolution or workaround: N/A

Issue 3: OMPC does not provide a warning when I delete my own LDAP account..

Description: I logged into OpenManage Power Center with my LDAP account, and then deleted the LDAP account in the user management settings screen, but OpenManage Power Center did not provide a warning that was deleting the account I was using to log in.

To be fixed in the subsequent release which will have a warning message to ensure that you aware that you are deleting the current-user account.

Resolution or workaround: Log in or ask person with admin right account to log into OpenManage Power Center and create the account if in fact you made a mistake of deleting the account.

Issue 4: Server cannot edit the power policy on the enclosure M1000e/VRTX from static to dynamic.

Description: OMPC supports static power policy for M1000e/VRTX at the chassis level. Due to this, the option for selecting dynamic or static power policy is unavailable.

Resolution or workaround: Select Static power policy for M1000e/VRTX.

Issue 5: Device selection is lost when navigating to another page.

Description: This is a known limitation of the OMPC UI. The UI only focusses on the current page. Any actions such as edit or delete need to be taken on the current page for the selected devices. Otherwise, the selection will be lost when you navigate to the next page.

Resolution or workaround: Perform the recommended tasks on devices displayed one page at a time.

Issue 6: I get a network exception error when I am trying to log in with an LDAP user account.

Description: LDAP server configuration (see Settings > Directory) is required to log in with an LDAP user account. This issue could be caused by the network communication between LDAP and OMPC server during the authentication process.

Resolution or workaround: Check the LDAP configuration in OpenManage Power Center setting to make sure the IP address of LDAP server is correct.

Issue 7: The memory power is incorrect for some devices in power history window.

Description: The power history chart in device page shows abnormal reading/spikes in memory power.

Resolution or workaround: Update the iDRAC firmware to latest to solve this issue.

Issue 8: Power capability changed from Monitor and capping to None for T420 Server when we apply the the iDRAC firmware 2.10.10.10.

Description: Eventhough T420 server have the capping capability, it will change to None if we apply iDRAC firmware 2.10.10.10.

Resolution or workaround: Update the iDRAC firmware to latest to solve this issue.

Issue 9: Slot info of C6420 is not available if the device is discovered through Redfish protocol.

Description: If a C6420 server is added through Redfish protocol, there is no Redfish command to get its slot number in chassis.

Resolution or workaround: If you need to view the slot information, you can remove the device and re-discover the server through IPMI protocol.

Issue 10: Turning on “Lockdown mode” on 14G servers will impact OMPC functions of power capping and device location editing, if the server is discovered by Redfish protocol.

Description: 14th generation of PowerEdge servers provided a new switch “Lockdown mode” in iDRAC console. The “Lockdown mode” will lock down all write operation on the servers. Turning on “Lockdown mode” on 14G servers will impact OMPC functions of power capping and device location editing. These operations in OMPC will fail when the “Lockdown mode” is enabled.

Resolution or workaround: Turn-off the “Lockdown mode” in iDRAC console if you are discovering the server through Redfish protocol or remove the device and re-discover the server through IPMI protocol.

Issue 11: If you install OMPC 4.0 or prior versions with a path different from that of the default path (for example, /opt/DELL/ompc) on Linux operating systems and try to run the command rpm -U OpenManagePowerCenter.rpm to upgrade to the latest version, an error is displayed and the upgrade is not successful.

Description: This is a limitation in the rpm tool. The rpm tool fails, if the specified path is not a default installation path of the older versions.

Resolution or workaround: It is recommended to run the install.sh to upgrade to OMPC 4.1 on Linux operating systems or add prefix parameter to specify the non-default path when using run rpm -U command (for example, rpm -U OpenManagePowerCenter.rpm --prefix /opt/DELL/ompc1).