Users Guide

NOTE: After submitting a firmware update job to iDRAC, the appliance interacts with iDRAC for
status of the job and provides status updates in Jobs and Activity Log in the Admin
Console. Sometimes iDRAC does not provide any status updates on the jobs tracked by the
appliance. Appliance waits for maximum 6 hours, and if there is no response from iDRAC then
the firmware update job status is considered as failed.
Polling and notification
You can receive notifications when new catalogs are available during system generation and default
update sources.
The color of the notification bell is changed to orange color when there is a new catalog file available at
the update source. Click the bell icon to replace the locally cached catalog available at the update
source. After the latest catalogs are replaced with the old catalogs, the bell color changes to green.
Setting notifications
To set the polling frequency:
1. In DLCI for SC2012 VMM, click Maintenance Center, click Maintenance Settings and then click
Polling and Notification.
2. Select how frequently the polling has to happen:
• Never — by default this option is selected. Select to receive updates about new catalogs available
at update source only once for the scheduled time.
• Once a week — select to receive updates about new catalogs available at update source on a
weekly basis.
• Once every 2 weeks — select to receive updates about new catalogs available at update source
once every two weeks.
• Once a month — select to receive updates about new catalogs available at update source on a
monthly basis.
Protection vault
Protection vault is a secure location where you can export and import server profiles for a server or a
group of servers. You can save this server profile on a shared location in the network by creating an
external vault or on a vFlash SD card by creating an internal vault. At one instance, you can associate only
one server or a group of servers with one protection vault. However, you can associate one protection
vault with many servers or group of servers.
Creating protection vault
Prerequisite: Ensure that the vault location is accessible.
To create a protection vault:
1. In DLCI for SC2012 VMM, click Maintenance Center, and then click Maintenance Settings.
2. In Maintenance Center, click Protection Vault, and then click Create.
3. Select the type of protection vault you want to use and provide the required details.
• If you are creating a protection vault of type Network Share, provide the location to save the
profiles, credentials to access this location and a passphrase to secure the profile. And this type of
protection vault provides support file sharing of type Common Internet File System (CIFS).
• If you are creating a protection vault of type vFlash, provide the passphrase to secure the profile.
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