Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Dell iDRAC 6 Firmware 1.95 Installation Notes

As of April 2013, the latest firmware download for iDRAC 6 is version 1.95 A00. The details of the firmware from Dell are:


Q1FY14 iDRAC Monolithic release 1.95
iDRAC6 V1.95
Release Date: 2/21/2013
Importance: Urgent


Download Link


Fixes & Enhancements

  1. Creating a partition from an image failed intermittently with Dell supported 8 GB SD card.
  2. Cannot create Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with remote and local RACADM.
  3. Cannot perform firmware update using the Web interface with Internet Explorer 10 browser.
  4. Cannot upload an SSH public key using command racadm sshpkauth if the key does not end with an "=" or "==" at the end of the key string.
  5. RAC serial redirect prompts for user credential when cfgSerialConsoleNoAuth is enabled.
  6. Power monitoring graph is not visible in iDRAC6 Web interface with Internet Explorer 10 browser.
  7. If the user password has (?) character, access is denied for WSMAN commands.
  8. In iDRAC6 express configuration console/media tab is listed in the system page. The Console/media tab must not be available in iDRAC6 express configuration.
  9. If  is ON on the management station and Virtual Console is launched, and then if any letter is pressed small case letter is displayed. If  is OFF and any letter is pressed, then Capital letter is displayed.
  10. The racadm vmdisconnect command from local and Remote racadm displays an error while disconnecting Remote File Share (RFS) attached media-"Error:No Virtual media devices are currently connected". But the media is connected through RFS before executing the command.
  11. In the iDRAC Web interface -> System Summary page -> Server Health section, the Power Supplies component health status displays as critical health instead of warning health in the absence of redundant power supply.
  12. Hardware inventory page in iDRAC Web interface displays information for two Power Supply Units (PSUs) when only one is present.
  13. Broadcom NIC Firmware Version in the iDRAC Web interface -> System Inventory page is not listing the correct version.
  14. Lifecycle Controller version is not displayed in the iDRAC Web interface System Summary and System Details pages.


Installation Notes
I upgraded from version 1.92 Build 5 to 1.95 A00 using the Update tools in the iDRAC Web Console. After downloading the .EXE file for Windows systems, I used 7zip to extract the files to my hard drive. Two files were created:

iDRAC6_1.95_A00_ReleaseNotes.txt
firmimg.d6

In the iDRAC webpage console I clicked iDRAC Settings and then selected the Update tab. I clicked Browse, selected the firmimg.d6 file, clicked OK, and then clicked Upload. The file upload took about 3-5 minutes (pretty slow for a 50MB file...) and then I received the following message:

iDRAC6 Firmware Image has been updated successfully.
The iDRAC6 has been reset. You will not be able to access the iDRAC6 with this browser session.
Please close and reconnect to the iDRAC6 using new browser session.

I closed the webpage and then reconnected to the IP Address. Everything looks good at first glance.
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