Reference Guide

For devices that perform update process without rebooting the host, the update status changes from
Downloading to Completed. For devices that require host reboot to perform update process, the update status
changes from Downloading to Scheduled. When the status is displayed as Scheduled, reboot the host to
start the update process.
The following devices require host reboot to perform the update process:
• Backplanes
• BIOS
• Complex programmable logic device (CPLD)
• Hard disk drives
• Solid state drives (SSD)
• Network interface cards (NIC) or Fibre Channel (FC) cards
• PCIe SSD devices
• Power supply unit (PSU)
• Storage controllers
Example
• Upload the update le from a remote CIFS share.
racadm update -f temp_file.exe -u admin -p xxx -l //1.2.3.4/share
• Upload the update le from a remote CIFS share and perform a graceful system reboot after the rmware
update:
racadm update -f <updatefile> -u admin -p mypass -l //1.2.3.4/share --reboot
• Upload the update le from a remote NFS share:
racadm update -f temp_file.exe -l //1.2.3.4/share
• Upload the update le from a remote NFS share and perform a graceful system reboot after the rmware
update:
racadm update -f <updatefile> -l 1.2.3.4:/share --reboot
• Upload the update le from the local le system using Local RACADM.
racadm update -f temp_file.exe
• Upload the update le from the local le system using local racadm and perform a graceful system reboot after
the rmware update:
racadm update -f <updatefile> --reboot
• Upload the update le from a remote CIFS share and under a user domain "dom".
racadm update -f temp_file.exe -u dom/admin -p xxx -l //1.2.3.4/share
• Perform update from a CIFS repository and to apply the updates, reboot the server.
racadm update -f Catalog.xml -l //192.168.0/Repo -u test -p xxx -a TRUE -t
CIFS
• Generate a comparison report using the available updates in the repository.
racadm update -f Catalog.xml -l 192.168.0:/Repo -t NFS -a FALSE --
verifycatalog
• Perform update from an FTP repository and to apply the updates, reboot the server.
racadm update -f Catalog.xml -e 192.168.0/Repo/MyCatalog -a TRUE -t FTP
• Perform update from an FTP repository through a proxy server.
racadm update -f Catalog.xml -e 192.168.0/Repo/MyCatalog -a TRUE -ph
192.168.0 -pu prxyuser -pp prxypass -po 80 -pt http -t FTP
• Perform update from ftp.dell.com.
racadm update -f Catalog.xml.gz -e ftp.dell.com/Catalog -a TRUE -t FTP
• View the comparison report generated.
racadm update viewreport
ComponentType = Firmware
ElementName = PERC H730P Mini
FQDD = RAID.Integrated.1-1
Current Version = 25.2.1.0025
Available Version = 25.2.1.0029
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