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Overview

The Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) for Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis is a systems management hardware and software solution for managing multiple Dell server chassis. It is a hot-pluggable card that is installed at the back of Dell PowerEdge

M1000e chassis. The CMC has its own microprocessor and memory and is powered by the modular chassis into which it is plugged.

CMC enables an IT administrator to:

• View inventory

• Perform configuration and monitoring tasks

• Remotely turn on or off servers

• Enable alerts for events on servers and components in the M1000e chassis

You can configure the M1000e chassis either with a single CMC, or with redundant CMCs. In redundant CMC configurations, if the primary CMC loses communication with the M1000e chassis or the management network, the standby CMC takes over chassis management.

The CMC provides multiple systems management functions for servers. Power and thermal management are the primary functions of CMC.

• Enclosure-level real-time automatic power and thermal management.

– CMC monitors system power requirements and supports the optional Dynamic Power Supply Engagement mode. This mode enables CMC to improve power efficiency by setting the power supplies in standby based on the load and redundancy requirements.

– CMC reports real-time power consumption, which includes logging high and low points with a time stamp.

– CMC supports setting an optional enclosure Maximum Power Limit, which either alerts or takes actions, such as throttling server modules and/or preventing the power up of new blades to keep the enclosure under the defined maximum power limit.

– CMC monitors and automatically controls cooling of fans based on actual ambient and internal temperature measurements.

– CMC provides comprehensive enclosure inventory and status or error reporting.

• CMC provides a mechanism for centralized configuration of :

– The network and security settings of M1000e enclosure.

– Power redundancy and power ceiling settings.

– I/O switches and iDRAC network settings.

– First boot device on the servers.

– I/O fabric consistency checks between the I/O modules and servers. CMC also disables components, if necessary, to protect the system hardware.

– User access security.

You can configure CMC to send email alerts or SNMP trap alerts for warnings or errors related to temperature, hardware misconfiguration, power outage, and fan speed.

What is new in this release

This release of CMC for Dell PowerEdge M1000e supports:

• Performing racresetcfg from CMC GUI.

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

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• Disabling AC Power Recovery.

• 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.

• Configuring SNMPv3 using RACADM.

• Querying the health status of the chassis components using WSMan.

• Initiating Quick Deploy of blade through RACADM commands.

• 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 power-on of IOM fails.

• Populating CMC Device name in the inventory.

Key Features

The CMC features are grouped into management and security features.

Management Features

The CMC provides the following management features:

• Redundant CMC environment.

• Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) registration for IPv4 and IPv6.

• Remote system management and monitoring using SNMP, a Web interface, iKVM, Telnet, or SSH connection.

• Monitoring — Provides access to system information and status of components.

• Access to system event logs — Provides access to the hardware log and CMC log.

• Firmware updates for various chassis components — Enables you to update the firmware for CMC, servers, iKVM, and I/O module infrastructure devices.

• Firmware update of server components such as BIOS, Network Controllers, Storage Controllers, and so on across multiple servers in the chassis using Lifecycle Controller.

• Server Component Update — Single Click all blade update using Network Share mode.

• Dell OpenManage software integration — Enables you to launch the CMC Web interface from Dell OpenManage Server

Administrator or IT Assistant.

• CMC alert — Alerts you about potential managed node issues through an email message or SNMP trap.

• Remote power management — Provides remote power management functions, such as shut down and reset on any chassis component, from a management console.

• Power usage reporting.

• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption — Provides secure remote system management through the Web interface.

• Launch point for the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) Web interface.

• Support for WS-Management.

• FlexAddress feature — Replaces the factory-assigned World Wide Name/Media Access Control (WWN/MAC) IDs with chassis-assigned WWN/MAC IDs for a particular slot, an optional upgrade.

• iDRAC IO Identity feature support for enhanced WWN/MAC Address Inventory.

• Graphical display of chassis component status and health.

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• Support for single and multi-slot servers.

• LCD iDRAC configuration wizard support for iDRAC network configuration.

• iDRAC single sign-on.

• Network time protocol (NTP) support.

• Enhanced server summary, power reporting, and power control pages.

• Forced CMC failover and virtual reseat of servers.

• iDRAC reset without rebooting the operating system.

• Support for storage array configuration using RACADM — Allows you to configure IP, join or create group, and select fabric for storage arrays using RACADM.

• Multi-chassis management:

– capability to view up to eight group member chassis from the lead chassis.

– capability to select chassis configuration properties from lead chassis and push to Group members.

– capability for Group members to keep their chassis settings synchronized with the lead chassis.

• Support to save server settings and configuration information to hard disk and restore to same or different server.

Security Features

CMC provides the following security features:

• Password-level security management — Prevents unauthorized access to a remote system.

• Centralized user authentication through:

– Active Directory using Standard Schema or an Extended Schema (optional.)

– Hardware-stored user IDs and passwords.

• Role-based authority — Enables an administrator to configure specific privileges for each user.

• User ID and password configuration through the Web interface.

NOTE: Web interface supports 128-bit SSL 3.0 encryption and 40-bit SSL 3.0 encryption (for countries where 128bit is not acceptable).

NOTE: Telnet does not support SSL encryption.

• Configurable IP ports, if applicable.

• Login failure limits per IP address, with login blocking from the IP address when the limit is exceeded.

• Configurable session auto time out, and more than one simultaneous sessions.

• Limited IP address range for clients connecting to CMC.

• Secure Shell (SSH), which uses an encrypted layer for higher security.

• Single Sign-on, Two-Factor Authentication, and Public Key Authentication.

Chassis Overview

The following figure shows the facing edge of a CMC (inset) and the locations of the CMC slots in the chassis:

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Figure 1. CMC slot locations in chassis

Table 1. CMC slot location details

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2

GB Port

STK Port

CMC Port Information

The following TCP/IP ports are required to remotely access CMC through firewalls. These are the ports CMC listens to for connections.

Table 2. CMC Server Listening Ports

Port Number

22*

23*

80*

161

443*

Function

SSH

Telnet

HTTP

SNMP Agent

HTTPS

* Configurable port

The following table lists the ports that CMC uses as a client.

Table 3. CMC Client Port

Port Number

25

53

68

69

162

514*

Function

SMTP

DNS

DHCP-assigned IP address

TFTP

SNMP trap

Remote syslog

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Port Number

636

3269

Function

LDAPS

LDAPS for global catalog (GC)

* Configurable port

Minimum CMC Version

The following table lists the minimum CMC version required to enable the listed Blade Servers.

Table 4. Minimum CMC Version for Blade Servers

Servers

PowerEdge M600

PowerEdge M605

PowerEdge M805

PowerEdge M905

PowerEdge M610

PowerEdge M610x

PowerEdge M710

PowerEdge M710HD

PowerEdge M910

PowerEdge M915

PowerEdge M420

PowerEdge M520

PowerEdge M620

PowerEdge M820

PowerEdge PSM4110

PowerEdge M630

PowerEdge M830

Minimum version of CMC

CMC 1.0

CMC 1.0

CMC 1.2

CMC 1.2

CMC 2.0

CMC 3.0

CMC 2.0

CMC 3.0

CMC 2.3

CMC 3.2

CMC 4.1

CMC 4.0

CMC 4.0

CMC 4.11

CMC 4.11

CMC 5.0

CMC 5.0

The following table lists the minimum CMC version required to enable the listed IOMs.

Table 5. Minimum CMC Version for IOMs

IOM Switches

PowerConnect M6220

PowerConnect M6348

PowerConnect M8024

PowerConnect M8024-k

PowerConnect M8428-k

Dell 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet Pass-Through

Dell 4Gbps FC Pass-Through Module

Dell 8/4Gbps FC SAN Module

Minimum version of CMC

CMC 1.0

CMC 2.1

CMC 1.2

CMC 3.2

CMC 3.1

CMC 1.0

CMC 1.0

CMC 1.2

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IOM Switches

Dell 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Through

Dell 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Through II

Dell 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Through-K

Brocade M4424

Brocade M5424

Cisco Catalyst CBS 3130X-S

Cisco Catalyst CBS 3130G

Cisco Catalyst CBS 3032

Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE

Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator

Mellanox M2401G DDR Infiniband Switch

Mellanox M3601Q QDR Infiniband Switch

Mellanox M4001F/M4001Q FDR/QDR Infiniband Switch

Mellanox M4001T FDR10 Infiniband Switch

Brocade M6505

Cisco Nexus B22DELL

CMC 1.0

CMC 4.11

CMC 4.2

CMC 1.0

CMC 2.0

CMC 4.0

CMC 4.1

CMC 4.3

CMC 4.3

Minimum version of CMC

CMC 2.1

CMC 3.0

CMC 3.0

CMC 1.0

CMC 1.2

CMC 1.0

CMC 1.0

Latest Firmware Versions for This Release

The following table lists the latest firmware versions for BIOS, iDRAC, and Lifecycle Controller that support the servers listed:

Table 6. Latest Firmware Versions for BIOS, iDRAC, and Lifecycle Controller

Servers

PowerEdge M600

PowerEdge M605

PowerEdge M805

PowerEdge M905

PowerEdge M610

PowerEdge M610x

PowerEdge M710

PowerEdge M710HD

PowerEdge M910

Power Edge M915

PowerEdge M420

PowerEdge M520

PowerEdge M620

PowerEdge M820

PowerEdge M630

BIOS

2.4.0

5.4.1

2.3.3

2.3.3

6.3.0

6.3.0

6.4.0

7.0.0

2.9.0

3.2.2

2.3.3

2.4.2

2.5.4

2.3.3

2.2.5

iDRAC

1.65

1.65

1.65

1.65

3.50

3.50

3.80

3.50

3.50

3.80

2.40.40.40

2.40.40.40

2.40.40.40

2.40.40.40

2.40.40.40

Lifecycle Controller

Not Applicable

Not Applicable

Not Applicable

Not Applicable

1.6

1.6

1.7.5.4

1.6

1.6

1.7.5.4

2.40.40.40

2.40.40.40

2.40.40.40

2.40.40.40

2.40.40.40

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Servers

PowerEdge M830

BIOS

2.2.5

iDRAC

2.40.40.40

Lifecycle Controller

2.40.40.40

NOTE: Array Software version 6.0.4 supports PowerEdge PSM4110.

Supported Remote Access Connections

The following table lists the supported Remote Access Controllers.

Table 7. Supported Remote Access Connections

Connection

CMC Network Interface ports

Features

• GB port: Dedicated network interface for the CMC Web interface. Two 10/100/1000

Mbps ports; one for management and the other for chassis to chassis cable consolidation.

• STK: Uplink port for chassis to chassis management network cable consolidation.

• 10 Mbps/100 Mbps/1 Gbps Ethernet through CMC GbE port.

• DHCP support.

• SNMP traps and email event notification.

• Network interface for the iDRAC and I/O Modules (IOMs).

• Support for Telnet/SSH command console and RACADM CLI commands including system boot, reset, power-on, and shutdown commands.

Serial port

• Support for serial console and RACADM CLI commands including system boot, reset, power-on, and shutdown commands.

• Support for binary interchange for applications specifically designed to communicate with a binary protocol to a particular type of IOM.

• Serial port can be connected internally to the serial console of a server, or I/O module, using the connect (or racadm connect) command.

Other connections

• Access to the Dell CMC console through the Avocent Integrated KVM Switch Module

(iKVM).

Supported Platforms

CMC supports modular systems designed for the PowerEdge M1000e platform. For information about compatibility with CMC, see the documentation for your device.

For the latest supported platforms, see the Chassis Management Controller Version 5.0 Release Notes located at dell.com/ support/manuals.

Supported Management Station Web Browsers

For the latest information on supported web browsers, see the Chassis Management Controller Version 5.2 Release Notes at dell.com/cmcmanuals.

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 10

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11

• Microsoft EDGE

• Safari version 7.1

• Safari version 8.0

• Mozilla Firefox 40

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• Mozilla Firefox 41

• Google Chrome 49

• Google Chrome 50

NOTE: By default, TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 are supported in this release. However, to enable TLS 1.0 use the following racadm command:

$ racadm config -g cfgRacTuning -o cfgRacTuneTLSProtocolVersionEnable TLSv1.0+

Viewing Localized Versions of the CMC Web Interface

To view localized versions of the CMC Web interface:

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Open the Windows Control Panel.

2.

Double-click the Regional Options icon.

3.

Select the required locale from the Your locale (location) drop-down menu.

Supported Management Console Applications

The CMC supports integration with Dell OpenManage IT Assistant. For more information, see the IT Assistant documentation set available on the Dell Support Web site at dell.com/support/manuals.

Other Documents You May Need

In addition to this guide, you can access the following guides available at dell.com/support/manuals. Select Choose from a list of all Dell products and click Continue. Click Software, Monitors, Electronics & Peripherals → Software:

• Click Remote Enterprise System Management and then click Dell Chassis Management Controller Version 5.2 to view:

– The CMC Online Help provides information about using the Web interface.

– The Chassis Management Controller (CMC) Secure Digital (SD) Card Technical Specification provides minimum BIOS and firmware version, installation and usage information.

– The Chassis Management Controller for Dell PowerEdge M1000e RACADM Command Line Reference Guide about the

RACADM sub-commands, supported interfaces, and property database groups and object definitions.

– The Chassis Management Controller Version 5.2 Release Notes available at dell.com/cmcmanuals, provides last-minute updates to the system or documentation or advanced technical reference material intended for experienced users or technicians.

• Click Remote Enterprise System Management and then click the required iDRAC version number to view the Integrated Dell

Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) User’s Guide that provides information about installation, configuration and maintenance of the iDRAC on managed systems.

• Click Enterprise System Management and then click the product name to view the following documents:

– The Dell OpenManage Server Administrator’s User’s Guide provides information about installing and using Server

Administrator.

– The Dell OpenManage SNMP Reference Guide for iDRAC and Chassis Management Controller provides information about

SNMP MIBs.

– The Dell Update Packages User's Guide provides information about obtaining and using Dell Update Packages as part of your system update strategy.

The following system documents available at dell.com/support/manuals provide more information about the system in which CMC is installed:

• The safety instructions that came with your system provide important safety and regulatory information. For additional regulatory information, see the Regulatory Compliance home page at www.dell.com/regulatory_compliance. Warranty information may be included within this document or as a separate document.

• The Rack Installation Guide and Rack Installation Instructions included with your rack solution describe how to install your system into a rack.

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• The Hardware Owner’s Manual provides information about system features and describes how to troubleshoot the system and install or replace system components.

• Systems management software documentation describes the features, requirements, installation, and basic operation of the software.

• Documentation for any components you purchased separately provides information to configure and install these options.

• Chassis Management Controller Version 5.0 Release Notes or readme files may be included to provide last-minute updates to the system or documentation or advanced technical reference material intended for experienced users or technicians.

• For more information on IOM network settings, refer to the Dell PowerConnect M6220 Switch Important Information document and the Dell PowerConnect 6220 Series Port Aggregator White Paper.

• Documentation specific to your third-party management console application.

Contacting Dell

NOTE: If you do not have an active Internet connection, you can find contact information on your purchase invoice, packing slip, bill, or Dell product catalog.

Dell provides several online and telephone-based support and service options. Availability varies by country and product, and some services may not be available in your area. To contact Dell for sales, technical support, or customer service issues:

1.

Go to Dell.com/support.

2.

Select your support category.

3.

Verify your country or region in the Choose a Country/Region drop-down list at the bottom of the page.

4.

Select the appropriate service or support link based on your need.

Social Media Reference

To know more about the product, best practices, and information about Dell solutions and services, you can access the social media platforms such as Dell TechCenter and YouTube. You can access blogs, forums, whitepapers, how-to videos, and so on from the

CMC wiki page at www.delltechcenter.com/cmc. The following how-to videos are available for CMC 5.0:

• Replicating Server Configuration Profile in a PowerEdge M1000E Chassis

• Assigning Profiles to Server Slots Using Quick Deploy Feature

• Resetting iDRACs Without OS Reboot

• Multi-chassis management

These how-to videos are also available on YouTube.

For CMC documents and other related firmware documents, see www.dell.com/esmmanuals

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