Users Guide

Remote Updates

Use remote update and firmware inventory feature to perform operating system agnostic update and retrieve firmware

inventory.

Using Remote Update

Remote update, also known as out-of-band update or operating system-independent platform update, allows you to

update the system independent of the state of the operating system. You can initiate the firmware update regardless of

the system state (power on or off state.)

With operating system independent platform update, an operating system need not be running on the system. Multiple

updates can be scheduled together along with a graceful or power-cycle reboot into Lifecycle Controller to perform the

updates. Although the updates may involve intermediate BIOS restarts, Lifecycle Controller automatically handles them

until the updates are complete.

This feature supports two methods to perform updates:

• Install from Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) — This method 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 method 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 force system reboot types.

NOTE: When you perform a remote update on the Driver Pack for the system, it replaces the current driver pack.

The replaced driver pack is no longer available.

NOTE: Only alphanumeric path names are supported.

Supported Devices

Remote update is supported for the following devices and components:

• iDRAC7

• RAID Series 6 and 7

• NICs, LOMs, NDCs, and CNAs (Broadcom, Intel, and QLogic)

• Power supplies

• BIOS

• OS Driver Pack

• Lifecycle Controller