Users Guide

Updating Firmware

You can maintain up-to-date rmware versions of Dell EMC server components to get better eciency, security protection and enhanced

features. Create update sources to do the rmware update.

Following are the tasks for the rmware update activities:

Topics:

• Viewing Firmware Inventory

• Installing Firmware

Viewing Firmware Inventory

Command: dellemc_get_rmware_inventory

Synopsis

You can view the rmware inventory of a server using this module. This module displays components of a server and the corresponding

rmware versions.

Options

Table 1.

dellemc_get_rmware_inventory

Parameter Required Default Choices Comments

idrac_ip Yes NA NA iDRAC IP Address

idrac_username Yes NA NA iDRAC username

idrac_pwd Yes NA NA iDRAC user password

idrac_port No 443 NA iDRAC port

Table 2. Return Values

Name Description Returned Type Sample

Firmware Inventory

• Components of a

server and their

rmware versions.

• List of dictionaries,

one dictionary per

rmware.

Success String

https://github.com/dell/Dell-EMC-Ansible-

Modules-for-iDRAC

Examples

-name: Get Installed Firmware Inventory

dellemc_get_firmware_inventory:

Updating Firmware 7