Users Guide

Managing firmware

The firmware feature in OME–Modular helps you to update the firmware of all the components in the chassis. The components

include compute sleds, ethernet IOMs, storage IOMs, and SAS IOMs. The firmware updates can be sources from the Dell web

site or a custom repository setup using Repository Manager.

You must have the chassis administrator role and the device update privilege for the chassis to update the firmware on the

chassis. To update the firmware on the components, you must have the device-specific manager role and device update

privilege to perform the updates.

The MX chassis bundle refers to the following update packages:

● Chassis manager DUP—This DUP comprises of the OME–Modular firmware.

● Storage sled DUP—This DUP contains updates for the Dell storage sleds in the chassis.

● Storage IOM DUP—This DUP contains updates for the chassis storage IOMs.

The DUPs for network IOMs and switches are licensed software and are available as individual DUPs. For external storage, the

DUPs are bundled in the catalog. If the hard drives or storage enclosures are assigned to a compute sled, you can update them

using iDRAC. However, you cannot update the assigned or unassigned hard drives through a chassis context. You can map the

drives to a server to update them.

The compute sled bundle refers to the packages for the server components—BIOS, NIC, RAID, hard drives, and iDRAC.

The firmware update process involves specifying the catalog, retrieving the firmware inventory, checking compliance, and

updating the firmware.

The available baselines are displayed on the Configuration > Firmware page. You can view a summary of the baseline

compliance and a pie chart on the top of the page. You can also view the summary of the desired baseline on the right side of

the Firmware page.

The baseline information that is displayed on the Firmware page is—compliance, name of the baseline, job status, catalog type,

timestamp when the baseline was last used.

You can perform the following tasks on the Firmware page:

● Create baseline

● Edit baseline

● View report

● Delete baseline

● Manage catalogs

● Check compliance

Topics:

• Creating baselines

• Checking compliance

• Editing baselines

• Managing catalogs

• Updating firmware

• Rolling back firmware

• Deleting firmware

Creating baselines

To create a firmware baseline:

1. Click Configuration > Firmware Compliance > Create Baseline .

The Create Firmware Baseline window is displayed.

2. Select the catalog type, enter a name and description for the baseline.

3. Click Add.

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