Updating CMC firmware using OME ??

Question

We are using 3.3.1 and trying to upgrade the CMC firmware on a FX chassis, in OpenManage it states that a reboot will be required? If doing a CMC upgrade manually via the UI of the device, it will restart the CMC but the server wouldn't require a reboot of the device itself, in this instance should reboot required by No?

DELL-Chris H · Answer

JohnB88,

If you update the CMC it will indeed require a restart of the CMC, if you have dual CMC's it will simply failover to the 2nd. If you have a single CMC it will restart itself, so you will lose connectivity momentarily, but will not require a restart of the servers.

Hope this helps.

JohnB88 · Answer

Hi Chris,

I think it was more a case of Reboot Required = Yes, doesn't make it clear whether it was just going to reboot the CMC and not the whole chassis power, does that make sense. Given the fact the the CMC has a fail-over we thought that would be the case it just updated the CMC but perhaps it could be made a little clearer?

Sorry one other question, is there a particular reason it doesn't show the System Board firmware (tested on a PowerEdge FX2)? Admittedly our system doesn't appear to have an update to the firmware checking manually, but this could be updated manually if I'm correct.

Thanks again.

DELL-Chris H · Answer

The mainboard firmware is shown in the CMC Chassis Overview under the Update tab, as well as can be seen in OME under Hardware - Installed Software.

If an update is released you could do it in the CMC update.

PowerEdge Hardware General

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