Installation Manual

40 Basic Installation of the iDRAC6

Updating the iDRAC6 Firmware Using the Web-Based Interface

For detailed information, see "Updating the iDRAC6 Firmware/System

Services Recovery Image" on page 75.

Updating the iDRAC6 Firmware Using RACADM

You can update the iDRAC6 firmware using the CLI-based RACADM tool.

If you have installed Server Administrator on the managed system, use local

RACADM to update the firmware.

Download the iDRAC6 firmware image from the Dell Support website at

support.dell.com

to the managed system.

For example:

C:\downloads\firmimg.d6

Run the following RACADM command:

racadm fwupdate -pud c:\downloads\

You can also update the firmware using remote RACADM and

aTFTPserver.

For example:

racadm -r <iDRAC6 IP address> -u <username> -p

<password> fwupdate -g -u -a <path>

where

path

is the location on the TFTP server where the

firmimg.d6

is stored

including the TFTP server IP address.

Path: <

TFTP server IP

> -d <

Firmware image path on TFTP server

• Case1: If firmimg.d6 image is in tftp root folder, path:

TFTPServerIP

• Case2: If firmimg.d6 image is in subfolder of tftp root, path:

TFTPServerIP

> -d /<

SubfolderPath