Thanks. I'm brand new to the Dell PE servers, so it took me a while to understand how updates work for the R720xd and IDRAC. I found <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell> that walked me through upgrading the Lifecycle and IDRAC to 2.52.52.52 .Once that was done, I got access to an HTML5 interface, so I don't need the Java client any longer.
I also found Linux ISO for doing updates, I lost the link but it went through and upgraded the firmware on every component, and installed additional components such as the Diagnostics and OS Collector. The link is here
I was surprised that the Win32 .exe update worked since the server is running Linux, but I guess the iDrac has a way of executing Windows binaries independent of the server's OS, because it worked.
I'm having no issues with Chrome 66, but I'm on FW 2.52. I suggest updating the iDRAC/LCC through the web interface instead of the console.
If you go to iDRAC Settings>Update and Rollback you can use Windows 32-bit Dell Update Packages. Just browse to the file location on the workstation and it will upload the update through the browser to the iDRAC. To locate a Win32 DUP choose Windows Server 2008 x86 in the OS drop down list of the support page. Support for Win64 DUPs was planned for the iDRAC7/8, but I'm not sure if it was implemented.
john.gooch
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Thanks. I'm brand new to the Dell PE servers, so it took me a while to understand how updates work for the R720xd and IDRAC. I found <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell> that walked me through upgrading the Lifecycle and IDRAC to
2.52.52.52 .Once that was done, I got access to an HTML5 interface, so I don't need the Java client any longer.
I also found Linux ISO for doing updates, I lost the link but it went through and upgraded the firmware on every component, and installed additional components such as the Diagnostics and OS Collector. The link is here
I was surprised that the Win32 .exe update worked since the server is running Linux, but I guess the iDrac has a way of executing Windows binaries independent of the server's OS, because it worked.
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Hello
I'm having no issues with Chrome 66, but I'm on FW 2.52. I suggest updating the iDRAC/LCC through the web interface instead of the console.
If you go to iDRAC Settings>Update and Rollback you can use Windows 32-bit Dell Update Packages. Just browse to the file location on the workstation and it will upload the update through the browser to the iDRAC. To locate a Win32 DUP choose Windows Server 2008 x86 in the OS drop down list of the support page. Support for Win64 DUPs was planned for the iDRAC7/8, but I'm not sure if it was implemented.
Thanks