This feature
enables you to view, compare, and update current firmware versions
for specific systems. It also enables you to compare the BIOS and
firmware versions of your system against another system, Dell FTP
site, or against a PDK catalog that you downloaded from the Dell Support
site.
To compare and update the firmware inventory
of a system:
Steps
On the System Viewer utility, click Firmware Inventory, Compare, and Update.
The system components and their current firmware
versions are displayed in the right-hand pane.
Click Export Profile to export the software inventory information in XML format.
Click Next and select
one of the following options to specify the baseline against which
you want to compare the firmware inventory of the collection of servers:
Dell PDK Catalog — to specify
a Dell PDK catalog that you can use to compare the firmware inventory.
To specify a PDK catalog:
Click Browse to navigate to
the file location where you have saved the catalog. Ensure that the
catalog resides on a CIFS share that is accessible to the Dell Lifecycle
Controller of the system.
Specify the User Name and Password to the CIFS share where your catalog resides
if you want to update the firmware inventory from the catalog. You
do not need to specify the user name and password if you are viewing
or comparing against the catalog.
NOTE To update the firmware
inventory, you must point to a local repository.
FTP: ftp.Dell.com — to connect
to the Dell FTP site to compare and update the firmware inventory
of the system.
Firmware Inventory Profile — to specify an existing profile that you have saved and use it
to compare and update the firmware inventory for the system.
Click Next. The screen
displays the following baseline details against which you can compare
the firmware of your collection:
Selective Firmware Update — Enables you to select the components that needs to be updated. Only
selected components are updated. All components are selected by default
other than the components which contains the status as Unavailable, Not Updatable, and Coequal.
CMC — Click Export to XML, to export an inventory of chassis and
servers from DLCI. You can use this information to create repository
using DRM. Once the repository is created, select the CMC and then
initiate the firmware update using the repository bundle created by
DRM.
CMC firmware cannot be updated directly from
DLCI console.
CMC cannot be updated using catalog,
you can update the CMC using .bin or .cmc file from DRM repository.
Component — displays the
component names.
Version — displays the firmware
versions of the components.
Baseline Version — displays
the baseline versions of the components.
Status — displays the status
of the firmware and indicates whether the firmware of the system is
same, or needs an update based on the repository selected.
Following are the status of the firmware:
Urgent: Indicates the critical
updates that are used to resolve security, performance, or break-fix
situations in a component.
Recommended: Indicates the
bug fixes and feature enhancements of the product.
Optional: Indicates about
the new features or any specific configuration updates.
Same: Indicates the same baseline
version.
Downgrade: Indicates the downgrade
of the current version.
Not Updatable: Indicates the
baseline version is not updatable.
Not Available: Indicates the
baseline version is not available.
You can filter the information based on any
of the baseline details, set schedule based on the available options
and then click Update to update your system
with the latest firmware.
start now — to start the
update.
start on next reboot — to
start the update when the target system reboots.
schedule update — to set
a date and time for the update. If the updates are scheduled in sequence
within an hour of each other, then a warning message is displayed.
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