Users Guide

8. Click Save as profile to save the modified NIC profile.

Comparing and Updating Firmware Inventory

This feature enables you to view, compare, and update current firmware versions for specific systems. It also enables

you to compare the BIOS and firmware versions of your system against another system, Dell FTP site, or against a PDK

catalog that you downloaded from the Dell Support site.

To compare and update the firmware inventory of a system:

1. On the System Viewer utility, click Firmware Inventory, Compare, and Update.

The system components and their current firmware versions are displayed in the right-hand pane.

2. Click Export Profile to export the software inventory information in XML format.

3. Click Next and select one of the following options to specify the baseline against which you want to compare the

firmware inventory of the collection of servers:

• Dell PDK Catalog — to specify a Dell PDK catalog that you can use to compare the firmware inventory. To

specify a PDK catalog:

– Click Browse to navigate to the file location where you have saved the catalog. Ensure that the catalog

resides on a CIFS share that is accessible to the Dell Lifecycle Controller of the system.

– Specify the User Name and Password to the CIFS share where your catalog resides if you want to update

the firmware inventory from the catalog. You do not need to specify the user name and password if you are

viewing or comparing against the catalog.

NOTE: To update the firmware inventory, you must point to a local repository.

• FTP: ftp.dell.com — to connect to the Dell FTP site to compare and update the firmware inventory of the system.

• Firmware Inventory Profile — to specify an existing profile that you have saved and use it to compare and

update the firmware inventory for the system.

4. Click Next. The screen displays the following baseline details against which you can compare the firmware of your

collection:

• Component — displays the component names.

• Version — displays the firmware versions of the components.

• Baseline Version — displays the baseline versions of the components.

• Status — displays the status of the firmware and indicates if the firmware of your system is compliant, or needs

an update.

5. You can filter the information based on any of the baseline details, set schedule based on the available options and

then click Update to update your system with the latest firmware.

• start now — to start the update.

• start on next reboot — to start the update when the target system reboots.

• schedule update — to set a date and time for the update. If the updates are scheduled in sequence within an

hour of each other; then a warning message is displayed.

Comparing Hardware Configuration Profile

This feature enables you to compare and report the BIOS or Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller configuration

profiles that are applied on a system.

To compare the hardware configuration profile:

1. On the System Viewer utility, click Compare Hardware Configuration Profile.

2. After the comparison report is generated, the screen displays the following colors to indicate the status of the

comparison: