- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- What’s New
- Supported features—operating systems matrix
- Documentation conventions for Dell EMC devices
- Coexistence of OpenManage Server Administrator and iDRAC Service Module
- Software availability
- Downloading iDRAC Service Module
- Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site
- Software license agreement
- Other documents you may need
- Preinstallation setup
- Installing iDRAC Service Module
- Initial installation of iDRAC Service Module through iDRAC for Microsoft Windows
- Initial installation of iSM through iDRAC Express
- Initial installation of iDRAC Service Module via iDRAC for Linux
- Installing iDRAC Service Module on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Installing iDRAC Service Module on supported Linux operating systems
- Installing the iDRAC Service Module on VMware ESXi
- Installing iDRAC Service Module when the System Configuration Lock Down Mode is enabled in iDRAC
- Configuring the iDRAC Service Module
- iDRAC Service Module monitoring features
- S.M.A.R.T Monitoring
- DLL authentication
- Operating system information
- Lifecycle Controller log replication into operating system
- Automatic System Recovery
- Windows Management Instrumentation Providers
- Prepare to remove NVMe PCIe SSD device
- Remote iDRAC hard reset
- iDRAC access via Host OS
- Accessing iDRAC Via GUI, WSMan, Redfish, Remote RACADM
- In-band support for iDRAC SNMP alerts
- Enable WSMan Remotely
- Auto-updating iDRAC Service Module
- FullPowerCycle
- SupportAssist on the Box
- Enabling the In-band SNMP Get feature—Linux
- Enabling the In-band SNMP Get feature—Windows
- iDRAC GUI Launcher
- Single sign-on (SSO) to iDRAC GUI from Host OS administrators desktop
- IPv6 communication between iSM and iDRAC over OS-BMC Passthru
- Enhanced security between iSM and iDRAC communication using TLS protocol
- Frequently asked questions
- Linux and Ubuntu installer packages
Dell EMC iDRAC Service Module 3.5 User’s Guide
Auto-updating iDRAC Service Module
You can auto-update the iDRAC Service Module. It aims at making the update process easier for you, by integrating iSM update with the iDRAC auto-update process.
NOTE If iDRAC auto-update
is enabled, iDRAC Service Module LC DUP must be updated to the latest
version from dell.com/support.
NOTE You do not have
to download the updates from support.dell.com. The updated iSM package
is locally available in iDRAC.
NOTE iDRAC Service
Module LC DUP in iDRAC will be removed when the iDRAC LC Wipe option
is used. You will have to download the iDRAC Service Module LC DUP
from dell.com/support.
- To install or update iSM, type dcism-sync.exe in the command prompt. Complete the steps in the installation wizard.
- To display the help content, type––help/-h.
- To do silent install or update, type––silent/-s.
- To uninstall the current version and install the
update package available in LC, type ––force/-f.NOTE This option overwrites the previous configuration.
- To get details about the update package version and the installed version of iDRAC Service Module, type ––get—version/-v.
- To download the iDRAC Service Module update packages to the user specified directory, type ––get—update/-g.
- To install specific features, the same as CLI arguments
used with msiexec.exe, type dcism-sync.exe
—p “feature”.
For example, to install iDRAC access via Host OS iDRAC feature on Windows, type dcism-sync.exe -p "ADDLOCAL=IBIA".
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