Users Guide

Remote Services Operations 41
services to perform the updates. Although the updates may involve
intermediate BIOS restarts, Lifecycle Controller will automatically handle
them until the updates are complete.
This feature supports two methodologies to perform updates:
• Install from Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) — This methodology
allows a WS-Management request to install or update software on a host
platform using a URI. The URI consists of a string of characters used to
identify or name a resource on the network. The URI is used to specify the
location of the Dell Update Package image on the network that can be
downloaded to the Lifecycle Controller and then installed.
• Install from Software Identity — This methodology allows update or
rollback to a version that is already available on the Lifecycle Controller.
You can use a WS-Management capable application, script or command line
utility to perform a remote update. The application or script performs WS-
Management invoke method request using one of the remote update
interface methods. The iDRAC then downloads the firmware from the
network share (local network share, CIFS, NFS, FTP, TFTP, http) URI and
stages the updates to be performed at the specified time and utilizing the
specified graceful, power cycle or none system reboot types.
Important
• When you perform a remote update on the Driver Pack for the system it
will replace the current driver pack. The replaced driver pack will no longer
be available.
• Only alphanumeric path names are supported.
Supported Devices
Remote Update is supported for the following devices and components:
•iDRAC6
•RAID Series 6 and 7
• NICs, LOMs, and CNAs (Broadcom and Intel)
• Power supplies
•BIOS
•OS Driver Pack