CLI Guide

Table 20. Details of fwupdate (continued)
● For Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers and later, CMC firmware includes a signature which
is verified by CMC before update to ensure the authenticity of the uploaded firmware. The firmware
update process is successful only if the firmware image is authenticated by CMC to be a valid image
from the service provider and has not been altered. The firmware update process is stopped if CMC
cannot verify the signature of the uploaded firmware image.
● Upload firmware image from TFTP server and start firmware update.
NOTE: Run the firmware update command through only one remote racadm session at a time.
Synopsis
racadm fwupdate -s
racadm fwupdate -g -u -a <TFTP_Server_IP_Address>
[-d <path> [--clearcfg]
racadm -r <iDRAC IP_Address> -u <username> -p <password> fwupdate -f
<ftpserver ip> <ftpserver username> <ftpserver password> -d <path> where
path is the location on the ftp server where firmimg.d7 is stored.
racadm fwupdate -r
racadm fwupdate -p -u [-d <path>]
For SSH or Telnet or Serial:
racadm fwupdate -g -u -a <tftp_server_ip_address_or_FQDN> -d <path> [-m
<module>]
racadm fwupdate -f <ftp_server_ip_address_or_FQDN> <username> <password>
-d <path> [-m <module>]
racadm fwupdate -u -m iominf-<n>
racadm fwupdate -s [-m <module>]
racadm fwupdate -c [-m <module>]
For Remote RACADM:
racadm fwupdate -p -u -d <path> [-m <module>]
racadm fwupdate -g -u -a 192.168.0.10 -d firmimg.cmc -m cmc-active
racadm fwupdate -r [-m <module>]
racadm -r 192.168.0.120 -u <username> -p <password> fwupdate -p -u -d
firming.cmc
When using FTP, if you provide the full path to the image file on the CLI, then the CMC uses that path
to locate that file on the host. If full path is not provided and the host system is running Linux or another
variant of UNIX, then CMC searches the home directory of the specified user for the file. If the host
system is running Windows, then a default folder, such as C:\ftproot is searched.
NOTE:
When attempting to run firmware update task, if the firmware image path length is greater than
256 characters, remote RACADM client exits with the error message "ERROR: Specified path
is too long".
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