Excellent!

I will try this today.

Hi Cameron,

Firmware update using generic command line at OME works fine

For Update :

Command : C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\SysMgt\rac5\racadm.exe

Argument : -r $RAC_IP -u $USERNAME -p $PASSWORD  fwupdate -g -u -a -d

To get the  Status :

Argument :  -r $RAC_IP -u $USERNAME -p $PASSWORD  fwupdate –s

One can write a batch file/Power Shell script to continuously retrieve the status.

Update process will take 5-7 min.

Lakshmi.

When I try it I get this error:

Results:  Exit code:1.

Output from command (stderr): ERROR: Unable to connect to RAC at specified IP address.

What port does this function use?

Hi Cameron,

There are two things which i would like to suggest:.

First, i would recomment that you use the system update feature in OpenManage Essentials 1.1 to update the firmware of DRAC. You can update the firmware of iDRAC either by choosing OMSA method, when you are creating the system update task or you can also use the iDRAC method of system update.

Second,this error message is thrown when the racadm command is not able to connet to the RAC. Please make sure that you are using iDRAC IP in the argument. Also, you need to make sure that remote racadm is enabled on the iDRAC for this command to work on the iDRAC

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Thank you for your assistance!

In the System Update section of OME 1.1.1 I see no way to update any DRAC firmware.

The only things that I can update there are firmware for NICs, PERC controllers etc.

My catalog is the latest.

I also see not way to make a system update task.

The only task creation area I can see in OME is in remote tasks.

I am definitely using the DRAC IP.

I only connect to DRACs from OME.

Remote Racadm is enabled on the target DRAC.

Any other ideas on what I can do to troubleshoot the connectivity issue?

cameron,

What is the current f/w version on your iDrac 7?

Also, can you confirm you have discovered and inventoried them via WS-Man?

Do you have OMSA installed on these servers?

Thanks,

Rob

btw, patch whitepapers are on www.delltechcenter.com/ome, but you may already be reviewing those.

It's not a iDRAC7. It's old :)

iDRAC5 firmware version 1.20 and I am trying to upgrade it to 1.60.

This device is not getting discovered and is showing as unknown even though all settings in the DRAC are correct to allow so I thought maybe it was due to the FW being so old.

I don't have the ability to install OMSA on this and most of our servers due to the servers being in used in a way that updates that OMSA would install to run would conflict with the functionality of the services running on the production servers.

Is it a 9G server ? What is the server model ?

Please note that deploying updates via iDRAC is only supported on 11G and 12G servers.

For 9G server, if OMSA cannot be installed on the server, you will probably need to follow the steps outlined by Lakshmi above.  

To troubleshoot this error:

Output from command (stderr): ERROR: Unable to connect to RAC at specified IP address.

Run this command from OS command prompt on OME server:

~Program Files (x86)\Dell\SysMgt\rac5\racadm.exe -r -u -p getsysinfo

If the above command returns the same error, try an RMCP ping on the RAC IP Address and check if it can be eached from OME server.

Remote racadm utility uses https protocol to send commands to DRAC 5 and requires port 443 enabled. Here is the link to DRAC 5 ports (page 16):

www.dell.com/.../DellRemoteAccessController5Security.Pdf

Thanks,

Raj Shresta

Yes it's a 1950 :(

Only a few left in our fleet.

That command run from powershell returns the data about the server and rac info so that part is working.

I am going to try the non OME method  now :)

Hi,

What are the possible scenario's to failed update via iDRAC

/Dilipnet

Hi Dilip,

Welcome to this thread. Actually, if iDRAC is in a correct state, there are no reasons for update to fail. So, one thing is to check is the output of the  following command once you start the system update task. As soon as you start the system update task, please execute this command from you command prompt every 2-3 secs. Do run the command as administrator.

winrm get cimv2/root/dcim/DCIM_LifecycleJob?InstanceID= -r:https:// /wsman:443 -u: -p: -SkipCNCheck -SkipCACHeck -a:basic -encoding:utf-8

Replace the username, password and iDRAC IP with the correct details. It will show if the package is downloaded to the lifecycle controller or not.

If this does not work, please restart the server, press F10, enter system services, save and then EXIT. This will make the lifecycle go to a state from where system update should work properly.

Also, you can enable CSIOR using the following racadm command:

C:\rac>racadm –r –u –p set

However, inventory will be collected only at boot up. But again, this command is only for iDRAC7. For iDRAC6, this needs to be done from the system services option by pressing F10.

Hope this helps.

Hi Pupul,

it's okay np.

Please find the output

DCIM_LifecycleJob

   InstanceID = JID_CLEARALL

   JobStartTime = TIME_NA

   JobStatus = Pending

   JobUntilTime = TIME_NA

   Message

   MessageID

   Name = CLEARALL

   PercentComplete = 0

DCIM_LifecycleJob

   InstanceID = JID_001375455882

   JobStartTime = TIME_NA

   JobStatus = Downloading

   JobUntilTime = TIME_NA

   Message = Downloading package.

   MessageID = RED003

   Name = update:DCIM:INSTALLED:NONPCI:20137:1.70

   PercentComplete = NA

DCIM_LifecycleJob

   InstanceID = RID_001375455890

   JobStartTime = TIME_NA

   JobStatus = Pending Reboot

   JobUntilTime = TIME_NA

   Message = NA

   MessageID = NA

   Name = Reboot1

   PercentComplete = NA

Regards

Dilip

Hi Dilip, Please execute this command. Extremely sorry for the inconvenience:

winrm e cimv2/root/dcim/DCIM_LifecycleJob -u: -p:  -r:https:// /wsman:443 -SkipCNCheck -SkipCACheck -SkipRevocationCheck -auth:basic -encoding:utf-8

The other command is to get the status of the specific job.

F.Y.I

DCIM_LifecycleJob

   InstanceID = JID_CLEARALL

   JobStartTime = TIME_NA

   JobStatus = Pending

   JobUntilTime = TIME_NA

   Message

   MessageID

   Name = CLEARALL

   PercentComplete = 0

DCIM_LifecycleJob

   InstanceID = JID_001375455882

   JobStartTime = TIME_NA

   JobStatus = Failed

   JobUntilTime = TIME_NA

   Message = Package verification failed.

   MessageID = RED007

   Name = update:DCIM:INSTALLED:NONPCI:20137:1.70

   PercentComplete = NA

Regards

Dilip

Hi Pupul,

What is the JOB_ID to be specified ?

once I executed the above command without JOB_ID it returns the below output

"The system cannot find the file specified."

Press F10, enter system services and saved before execute the command.

Regards

Dilip