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Using the update and reboot Job IDs, you can use the DCIM_JobService

profile to schedule these jobs to run immediately or at future date and

time. You can also use the Job ID to query the status of a job or to cancel a

job.

All jobs will be marked successful or, if an error occurred during

downloading or updating, failed. For failed jobs, the error message and

error message ID for the failure are available in the job information.

Important

• After successfully downloading the DUP and extracting it, the downloader

will update the status of the job as "Downloaded" and the job can then be

scheduled. If the signature is invalid or if download/extraction fails then

the Job status is set to "Failed" with an appropriate error code.

• Updated firmware can be viewed by requesting firmware inventory after

firmware update jobs have completed.

Scheduling Remote Update

The remote update scheduling capability provides the ability to schedule or

stage firmware updates now or in the future. Updates for Diagnostics and

USC can be performed directly and do not require any staging. These updates

will be applied as soon as they are downloaded and do not need the Job

Scheduler. All other remote updates are staged updates, and require

scheduling, using different scheduling options. The DUPs are downloaded to

the Lifecycle Controller and staged, and the actual update is performed by

rebooting the system into UEFI System Services.

There are multiple options for scheduling updates:

• Run updates on the desired components at a desired time.

• Run the reboot command to get a reboot job ID.

• Check on the status of any of the jobs by enumerating

DCIM_SoftUpdateConcreteJob instances and checking the JobStatus

property value.

• Schedule the job using the

SetupJobQueue

() method on the

DCIM_JobService.

• Delete existing jobs using the

DeleteJobQueue()

method on the

DCIM_JobService.

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