Users Guide

Updating Firmware
You can maintain up-to-date firmware versions of Dell EMC server components to get better efficiency, security protection and
enhanced features. Create update sources to do the firmware update.
Following are the tasks for the firmware update activities:
Topics:
• Viewing Firmware Inventory
• Installing Firmware
Viewing Firmware Inventory
About this task
Command: dellemc_get_firmware_inventory
Synopsis
You can view the firmware inventory of a server using this module. This module displays components of a server and the
corresponding firmware versions.
Options
Table 1. dellemc_get_firmware_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
firmware versions.
● List of dictionaries,
one dictionary per
firmware.
Success String
https://github.com/dell/Dell-EMC-Ansible-
Modules-for-iDRAC
Examples
-name: Get Installed Firmware Inventory
dellemc_get_firmware_inventory:
idrac_ip: "xx.xx.xx.xx"
idrac_user: "xxxx"
idrac_pwd: "xxxxxxxx"
Installing Firmware
Command: dellemc_install_firmware
3
Updating Firmware 9