This video walks you through the integration of iDRAC with Dell Repository Manager, demonstrating how to create a repository, export it, and use it to check for updates on a specific model, such as the T630.
Hello, my name is Michael. I’m a Senior Engineer here at Dell, and today, we’ll be covering Dell Repository Manager. Specifically, we’ll focus on the integration of iDRAC with Dell Repository Manager. Here you can see I have an iDRAC selected as a test subject, and I have the Repository Manager open. I’ve already created an HTTP location for simplicity, but you can use a network share as well. All right, let’s get started. We’ll open Dell Repository Manager. We’re going to select ‘Add Repository.’
When the wizard opens, we’re going to call it ‘DRAC.’ We’re going to leave the default catalog as it’s the most current, but you can choose a different catalog if desired. We’re going to select ‘Integration,’ and we’re going to choose ‘Windows 64-bit’ for iDRAC out-of-band update, and we’re going to select iDRAC. I’m going to put our iDRAC information in here and select ‘Connect.’ Once it pulls in the system information, we’re going to select ‘Add.’ We can see that it’s populating our repository up here.
We can actually inspect this repository to see the information from the inventory. Now, this was pulled from the iDRAC. Now that we have the repository, we’ll need to export this to our HTTP location. So, you just select the primary field, select ‘Export,’ and we’re going to go to ‘Share.’ We’re going to browse to our HTTP location, ‘DRM’ for Dell Repository Manager, and select ‘Open.’ Now that we have our path, we select ‘Export.’ Then we can monitor this job status.
All right, now that we have this repository, we can present this to the iDRAC. Okay, the same IP iDRAC that we pulled the repository from. We go down to ‘Update and Rollback.’ Once here, we’ll change from the local default option to HTTP. We’ll put in our IP address of our website, leave those fields blank because we have anonymous selected on our site.
Now we’ll need the path and the catalog name. Then we’re going to test the network connection. Successful. And we’re going to check for updates. We’ll see all these available updates come up at the bottom of the screen. And that about does it. That shows our available updates on a specific model, and it is specific to this T630. So, any iDRAC you use, it’ll be for that model. And that wraps it up.
Thanks for watching. Have a great day.
