Owner's Manual

Performing BIOS and Firmware Updates 27
• If your system component version is higher than the version available in
the repository, you can downgrade your system components to the versions
in the repository. In the
Inventory and Update Firmware dialog box, select
the required components to downgrade and click
Allow Downgrade .
• If you need to re-install the component versions, select the required
components and click
Allow Reflash .
Automatically Update Firmware
By default, installing a BIOS or firmware RPM does not apply the update to
the hardware. The update is manually applied using the
update_firmware command. However, you can automatically update the
hardware during RPM installation by configuring the
/etc/firmware/firmware.conf file.
To automatically install BIOS and firmware updates, ensure that rpm_mode
is set to auto in the firmware.conf file as shown:
[main]
# Automatically install BIOS updates when an RPM BIOS Update file is installed
# values: 'auto', 'manual'
# default: 'manual'
rpm_mode=auto
Viewing Log Information
The log information is stored in the firmware-updates.log file located at
/var/log/ folder.