Users Guide

Rollback firmware using RACADM

1. Check the rollback status and the FQDD using the swinventory command:

racadm swinventory

For the device for which you want to rollback the firmware, the Rollback Version must be Available. Also, note the FQDD.

2. Rollback the device firmware using:

racadm rollback <FQDD>

For more information, see iDRAC RACADM Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.

Rollback firmware using Lifecycle Controller

For information, see Lifecycle Controller User’s Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.

Rollback firmware using Lifecycle Controller-Remote

Services

For information, see Lifecycle Controller Remote Services Quick Start Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.

Recovering iDRAC

iDRAC supports two operating system images to make sure a bootable iDRAC. In the event of an unforeseen catastrophic error and you

lose both boot paths:

• iDRAC bootloader detects that there is no bootable image.

• System Health and Identify LED is flashed at ~1/2 second rate. (LED is located on the back of a rack and tower servers and on the

front of a blade server.)

• Bootloader is now polling the SD card slot.

• Format an SD card with FAT using a Windows operating system, or EXT3 using a Linux operating system.

• Copy firmimg.d9 to the SD card.

• Insert the SD card into the server.

• Bootloader detects the SD card, turns the flashing LED to solid amber, reads the firmimg.d9, reprograms iDRAC, and then reboots

iDRAC.

Backing up server profile

You can back up the system configuration, including the installed firmware images on various components such as BIOS, RAID, NIC,

iDRAC, Lifecycle Controller, and Network Daughter Cards (NDCs) and the configuration settings of those components. The backup

operation also includes the hard disk configuration data, motherboard, and replaced parts. The backup creates a single file that you can

save to a vFlash SD card or network share (CIFS, NFS, HTTP or HTTPS).

You can also enable and schedule periodic backups of the firmware and server configuration based on a certain day, week, or month.

You can reset iDRAC even when a server-profile backup or restore operation is in progress.

Backup feature is licensed and is available with the iDRAC Enterprise license.

Before performing a backup operation, make sure that:

• Collect System Inventory On Reboot (CSIOR) option is enabled. If you initiate a back operation while CSIOR is disabled, the following

message is displayed:

System Inventory with iDRAC may be stale,start CSIOR for updated inventory

• To perform backup on a vFlash SD card:

• vFlash SD card is inserted, enabled, and initialized.

• vFlash SD card has at least 100 MB free space to store the backup file.

Setting up managed system