Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Lifecycle Controller User's Guide
- Introduction
- Using Lifecycle Controller
- Operating system deployment
- Monitor
- Hardware inventory view and export
- About view and export current inventory
- About view and export factory-shipped inventory
- Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
- Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
- Viewing or exporting hardware inventory after part replacement
- Viewing or exporting current inventory after resetting Lifecycle Controller
- Lifecycle Controller log
- Firmware update
- Configure
- System control panel access options
- Configuring iDRAC
- Configuring system time and date
- Configuring RAID
- Configuring RAID using software RAID
- Creating a secure virtual disk on a RAID controller
- Key encryption
- Local key encryption mode
- Breaking mirrored drives
- System setup — Advanced Hardware Configuration
- Collect system inventory on restart
- Configuring a local USB drive
- Configuring NFS and CIFS servers
- Conditions while configuring HTTP or HTTPS server
- Maintain
- Easy-to-use system component names
- Using the system setup and boot manager
- Troubleshooting and frequently asked questions
Table 8. Firmware Update — Supported Components
Component Name Firmware Rollback Supported? (Yes
or No)
Out-of-band — System Restart
Required?
Storage Enclosure Processor Yes Yes
IDSDM No Yes
* Indicates that though a system restart is not required, iDRAC must be restarted to apply the updates. iDRAC communication
and monitoring will temporarily be interrupted.
** The backplanes that cannot be updated are not listed.
***Applicable only for FX2 modular systems.
Topics:
• Firmware update methods
• Version compatibility
• Updating firmware
• System Configuration Lockdown mode
• Firmware rollback
Firmware update methods
The following table lists the various locations or media and methods to perform the updates:
NOTE:
If the FTP server or network share is used for updates, configure the network card using the Settings wizard
before accessing the updates.
NOTE: For Dell online catalog update, downloads.dell.com only supports https protocol.
Table 9. Firmware update methods
Method Dell Website
Location FTP
Methods
● Non-proxy (Internal)
● Proxy (Internal)
Media Local Drive
● Dell EMC server Update Utility DVD
● USB Drive
Methods
● Virtual Console (Mapped on Client)
● Attached Locally
Location
● Network Share
○ CIFS
○ NFS
○ HTTP
○ HTTPS
NOTE: If you select a local drive for updates, you will not get an option to browse the device you have selected. You must
know the name or path of the filename before selecting the local drive.
The following table lists the supported interfaces, image-file types, and whether Lifecycle Controller must be in enabled state
for the firmware to be updated:
Table 10. Image file types and dependencies
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