Dell Chassis Management Controller Version 3.10 for PowerEdge VRTX Release Notes

• Updating the Linux kernel open source package to version 4.9.31.
• Enabling windows file sharing protocol version SMBv2 and SMBv3.
• Updating the OpenSSH open source package to version 7.6p1. The minimum key length required for SSH is 1024 bits.
• Supporting slot names with a length of 24 characters to identify individual servers.
• Enabling SNMP trap for the TMP8501 alert.
• Extending fabric flex address configuration support in chassis profile .xml file.
• Supporting 128-bit session identifiers.
• Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 cryptography capability. The CMC 3.00 release is FIPS certified version(Certification Number: #2861).
• Firmware and driver refresh of COMMs cards on Dell's 14th generation of PowerEdge servers.

Release 3.0

• Supporting PowerEdge M640 blade server on the PowerEdge VRTX Chassis.
• Updating the physical mapping of TOR switch ports to Dell EMC's 14th generation server ports using LLDP open source package version 0.7.7.
• Unlocking the foreign SEDs from CMC GUI.
• Collecting CMC dumplogs as part of the server's SupportAssist tab.
  • Integrating ZIP open source package version 3.0 for SupportAssist.
  • Integrating LSOF open source package version 4.86 for SupportAssist.
• Monitoring "wear gauge" of SSDs.
• Monitoring CMC Fan sensors PWM using RACADM:
  • getsensorinfo
• Integrating the event filter configurations on chassis profile XML file.
• Updating the OpenSSL open source package to version 1.0.2K.
• Updating the OpenSSH open source package to version 7.4p1.
• Updating enterprise OID in the SNMPv3 trap.
• Extending SNMP protocol and custom discovery port configuration in GUI.
• Extending SNMPv3 trap configuration support in WSMan.
• Configuring CMC using WSMan for the following SNMPv3 user attributes:
  • userAdminSNMPv3Enable
  • userAdminSNMPv3AuthenticationType
  • userAdminSNMPv3PrivacyType
• Monitoring CMC using WSMan for the following sensors:
  • Fan sensor speed
  • Temperature sensor for chassis and servers
• Providing racadm commands to initiate/cancel consistency checks of all VDs:
  • raid ccheckall
  • raid cancelcheckall

Release 2.23

• Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) certified. Certification Number: #2861. For details, see www.csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm#2861

Release 2.22

• Updated the OpenSSL open source package to version 1.0.2j.

Release 2.20

• Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 cryptography capability.
• Disabling AC Power Recovery.
• Creating a Virtual Disk without initialization of the virtual disk.
• Pre-enablement of the following features for Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs):
  • Creating, modifying, and deleting the security key — using key identifier and passphrase
  • Secure erase
  • Encrypting virtual disks
  • Unlocking and importing secure foreign virtual disk configuration using RACADM and WSMan
• Querying shared storage health using SNMP.
• Enabling sPERC Redundancy and setting up Multiple Assignment Mode using WSMan.
• Performing racresetcfg from CMC GUI.
• Updating the OpenSSL open source package to version 1.0.2f.
• Updating the OpenSSH open source package to version 7.1p1.
• Updating glibc to version 2.23 to address new security vulnerabilities.
• TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.1 by default.
• User configuration option to enable TLS 1.0 using RACADM.
• SNMPv3 configuration only in RACADM.
• Querying the health status of the chassis components using WSMan.
• Initiating Quick Deploy of blade through RACADM.
• Configuring CMC using WSMan for the following features:
  • Host Name of Chassis
  • IP Configuration
  • DNS
  • DNS Registration
  • NTP
  • Change Default Password
• Sending alerts when the power state of an IOM changes and when a power ON of IOM fails.
• Populating CMC Device name correctly in the inventory.

Release 2.12

• Quick link to the Dell Tech Center page from the CMC web GUI.

Release 2.10

• Support for PowerEdge M830 Blade server for PowerEdge VRTX Chassis.
• Support for 1100W PSU.
• Pre-enablement support for the Shared External Storage expansion (JBOD support).
• Firmware and driver refresh of COMMs cards on Dell's 13th generation PowerEdge servers.
• Support for Emulex Fibre Channel (FC) 8 HBA adapters.
• Capture and replicate chassis configurations through XML based on the Chassis configuration profile.
• Support for blinking server identification LED using Quick Link.
• Backup or restore through XML based on the chassis configuration profile.
• Create and deploy a library of Boot Identity Profiles (boot from iSCSI/SAN configurations) to enable a quick restore of workload to a spare server.