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May 15th, 2020 06:00

Firmware Recommendation Between Enterprise and Essentials

Good morning,

I was curious this morning and checked to see the firmware updates picked up by Enterprise vs Essentials.  They have some that are the same on both OpenManage products, but they also picked up different ones on other servers.  

I'm curious if anyone sees the same thing (differing update recommendations).  Also, does Enterprise recommendations trump Essentials?

Thank you.

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May 15th, 2020 11:00

I'm not seeing much of anything with OpenManage Essentials anymore, because Enterprise was intended to replace it, not exist alongside it. Essentials isn;t seeing any further development and won't be supported with models that aren't already supported on Essentials 2.5.

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May 18th, 2020 04:00

Thank you for your response, Dylan.

So I should ignore the firmware recommendations on Essentials even though it's picking up stuff to update that's not listed in Enterprise?  

I can send you a screenshot if you are curious.

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May 18th, 2020 08:00

I would only be looking at Enterprise, since Essentials, I'm pretty sure, won't receive any more patching. 

 

Without more information, I can't say in your use case that Enterprise is definitely right and Essentials is definitely wrong, but I'd be more inclined to trust Enterprise, and you can take that next step of sureness by verifying with the iDRAC in one of these servers and with the support site. I'd expect Enterprise to reflect what you see in the iDRAC (Enterprise queries the iDRAC directly, instead of navigating to it through software layers).

 

I 100% believe you about the pictures, and they'd be interesting to see, if you'd like to share them. I'm not sure if they'll help with the issue you're seeing, but I can't imagine that it'd hurt.

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May 18th, 2020 10:00

EssentialsEssentials

I removed the server name, but this is all that Essentials picks up.  

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