Viewing And Applying Pending Operations Using Racadm; Storage Devices - Apply Operation Scenarios - Dell iDRAC 8 User Manual

* Force Shutdown
* Power Cycle System (cold boot)
NOTE: For PERC 8 or earlier controllers, Graceful Shutdown is the default option. For PERC 9 controllers,
No Reboot (Manually Reboot System) is the default option.
5. If the commit job is not created, a message indicating that the job creation was not successful is displayed. Also, the message
ID and the recommended response action are displayed.
6. If the commit job is created successfully, a message indicating that the job ID is created for the selected controller is displayed.
Click Job Queue to view the progress of the job in the Job Queue page.
If the clear foreign configuration, import foreign configuration, security key operations, or encrypt virtual disk operations are in
pending state, and if these are the only operations pending, then you cannot create a job from the Pending Operations page.
You must perform any other storage configuration operation or use RACADM or WSMAN to create the required configuration
job on the required controller.
You cannot view or clear pending operations for PCIe SSDs in the Pending Operations page. Use the racadm command to
clear the pending operations for PCIe SSDs.

Viewing and applying pending operations using RACADM

To apply pending operations, use the jobqueue command.
For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Reference Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.
Storage devices — apply operation scenarios
Case 1: selected an apply operation (apply now, at next reboot, or at scheduled time) and there are no existing pending
operations
If you have selected Apply Now, At Next Reboot, or At Scheduled Time and then clicked Apply, first the pending operation is
created for the selected storage configuration operation.
• If the pending operation is successful and there are no prior existing pending operations, then the job is created. If the job is
created successfully, a message indicating that the job ID is created for the selected device is displayed. Click Job Queue to
view the progress of the job in the Job Queue page. If the job is not created, a message indicating that the job creation was not
successful is displayed. Also, the message ID and the recommended response action are displayed.
• If the pending operation creation is unsuccessful and there are no prior existing pending operations, an error message with ID
and recommended response action is displayed.
Case 2: selected an apply operation (apply now, at next reboot, or at scheduled time) and there are existing pending
operations
If you have selected Apply Now, At Next Reboot, or At Scheduled Time and then clicked Apply, first the pending operation is
created for the selected storage configuration operation.
• If the pending operation is created successfully and if there are existing pending operations, then a message is displayed.
– Click the View Pending Operations link to view the pending operations for the device.
– Click Create Job to create job for the selected device. If the job is created successfully, a message indicating that the job ID
is created for the selected device is displayed. Click Job Queue to view the progress of the job in the Job Queue page. If the
job is not created, a message indicating that the job creation was not successful is displayed. Also, the message ID and the
recommended response action is displayed.
– Click Cancel to not create the job and remain on the page to perform more storage configuration operations.
• If the pending operation is not created successfully and if there are existing pending operations, then an error message is
displayed.
– Click Pending Operations to view the pending operations for the device.
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