Users Guide

42 Remote Services Operations
•USC
•Diagnostics
Workflow for Remote Update from URI
1 Use the appropriate WS-Management client to send a method invocation
request to the iDRAC IP address. The WS-Management command
includes the
InstallFromURI() method on the
DCIM_SoftwareInstallationService, and the location from where iDRAC
should download the Dell Update Package (DUP). The download
protocols that are supported are FTP, HTTP, CIFS, NFS, and TFTP.
2 When the WS-Management command is invoked successfully, a Job ID
will be returned back.
3 Additional InstallFromURI() method invocation requests can be sent
using WS-Management to create other update jobs.
4 A reboot job can be created by invoking the CreateRebootJob() method
on the DCIM_SoftwareInstallationService and specifying the desired
reboot type. The reboot type can be graceful, power cycle or graceful with
power cycle after 10 minutes.
5 Using the update and reboot Job IDs, you can use the Dell Job Control
Profile profile to schedule these jobs to run immediately or at future date
and time. You can also use the Job ID to query the status of a job or to
cancel a job.
6 All jobs will be marked successful or, if an error occurred during
downloading or updating, failed. For failed jobs, the error message and
error message ID for the failure are available in the job information.
Important
• After successfully downloading the DUP and extracting it, the downloader
updates the status of the job as
Downloaded and the job can then be
scheduled. If the signature is invalid or if download/extraction fails then
the Job status is set to
Failed with an appropriate error code.
• Updated firmware can be viewed by requesting firmware inventory after
firmware update jobs have completed.