New iDRAC firmware notification

Hi Cameron,

the easiest way is to create RSS Feed for updates on support.dell.com for you system updates. So you see all update releases.

Thx Florian. That was helpful !

John Bradshaw

Is there a feed page that is more general? That feed want's to tie update notifications to a specifiic chassis in my DC. I would have to enter hundreds of variations to cover all the different gear I manage.

I would like firmware feeds to be notified of available updates on the following:

R310

R410

R510

R610

R710

R810

R320

R420

R520

R620

R720

iDRAC5

iDRAC6

iDRAC7

Hm I'm not aware of an other feed. Did you try Open Manage Essentials?

en.community.dell.com/.../1989.openmanage-essentials.aspx

Thanks Peter. I installed it but for some reason I thought it was just a tool that OME leveraged to do the updates and not something that I would use manually.

Wouldn't it have the same limitations as OME regarding needing OMSA installed on 11G servers that only had DRAC express?

Try Repository manager yet? It can help keep inventory of what you have deployed currently and compare that with what is available on our download servers. Http:///www.delltechcenter.com/repositorymanager

Thanks I am already using OME and it works great for DRAC Enterprise and servers that can run OMSA but I have lots of equipment with DRAC express that cannot have OMSA loaded and was hoping to be able to receive general update notifications.

Hi Cameron, RM is more a tool for downloading the updates, seeing if anything new is available in the catalogs, and creating update / deployment packages. It doesn't actually push the updates to the machines, it's in conjunction with the other systems management tools, so you would run into the same limitations. I was just suggesting it as a good way to see what the latest updates are using the search features

Got it. Thanks peter :)