Dell Chassis Management Controller Version 5.21 Manual

Dell Chassis Management
Controller

Version 5.21

Release Notes

Dell Chassis Management Controller

Version

Release Date

Previous Version

The Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) is a hot-pluggable systems management hardware and software
solution designed to provide the following functions for Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis system:

• Remote management capabilities

• Power control

• Cooling control

Dell Chassis Management Controller 5.21

November 2016

Dell Chassis Management Controller Version 5.20

Importance

RECOMMENDED: Dell recommends applying this update during your next scheduled update cycle.
The update contains feature enhancements or changes that will help keep your system software current and

compatible with other system modules (firmware, BIOS, drivers, and software).

Platform(s) Affected

CMC version 5.21 supports the following Dell PowerEdge(TM) systems in the Dell PowerEdge M1000e system
enclosure:

• Dell PowerEdge M630

• Dell PowerEdge M830

• Dell PowerEdge M420

• Dell PowerEdge M520

• Dell PowerEdge M600

• Dell PowerEdge M605

• Dell PowerEdge M610

• Dell PowerEdge M610X

• Dell PowerEdge M620

• Dell PowerEdge M710

• Dell PowerEdge M710HD

• Dell PowerEdge M805

• Dell PowerEdge M820

• Dell PowerEdge M905

• Dell PowerEdge M910

• Dell PowerEdge M915

• Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110

What is Supported?

Supported Web Browsers

CMC version 5.21 is supported on the following Web browsers:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 10

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11

• Microsoft EDGE

• Safari version 7.1

• Safari version 8.0

• Mozilla Firefox version 40

• Mozilla Firefox version 41

• Google Chrome version 49

• Google Chrome version 50

What’s New

Release 5.21

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

Release 5.20

• Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 cryptography capability.

• Disabling AC Power Recovery.

• 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.