Users Guide
Maintenance
Using Maintenance Center page you can export server inventory, and schedule jobs for upgrading the servers, recovering servers to an
earlier state by exporting its earlier conguration, applying the same congurations as that of the old component on replaced components,
and exporting LC logs for troubleshooting.
Topics:
• About rmware updates
• Recovery
• Applying rmware and conguration settings
• Collecting LC logs
• Exporting inventory
About rmware updates
You can maintain up-to-date rmware versions of Dell EMC server components as per the recommendations. Create update sources, and
custom update groups, or use the predened update groups to do the rmware update. You can create, and schedule jobs for rmware
updates, and schedule notications to receive alerts when new catalogs are available at update source. A comparison report for the existing
rmware version and the baseline version is provided. Based on this information, you can create an inventory le. Also, you can lter the
information based on the type of updates, server components, and server models. You can perform updates only on servers whose
hardware is compatible because the iDRAC updates are available only for the minimum supported version and later.
NOTE
: After upgrading to the latest version of OMIMSSC version, if the connection to ftp.dell.com or downloads.dell.com fails,
the default Dell online FTP, or the Dell HTTP update source cannot download the catalog le, and hence the comparison report is
not available. To view a comparison report, edit the default Dell online FTP, or the Dell HTTP update source, create proxy
credentials, and then select the same from the Select Update Source drop-down menu. For more information about editing an
update source, see the
Modifying update source.
OMIMSSC provides the following update actions in the Maintenance center page:
• Downgrade—there is an earlier version available at update source and you can downgrade the rmware to this version.
• No Action Required—the rmware version is at the same level as the one in the repository.
• No Update Available—no rmware updates are available for the component.
• Upgrade - Optional—updates consist of new features or any specic conguration upgrades that are optional.
• Upgrade - Urgent—critical updates used for resolving security, performance, or break-x situations in components such as BIOS, and
so on, are available.
• Upgrade - Recommended—updates carry bug xes or any feature enhancements in the OMIMSSC. Also, compatibility xes with other
rmware updates are included.
OMIMSSC provides the following methods to perform rmware updates:
• Update using DRM repository—export the inventory information of the discovered servers from Appliance to prepare a repository in
DRM. For information about exporting the inventory information, see the Exporting inventory.
• After creating a repository in DRM, select the relevant servers and initiate an update on the servers. Consider other factors such as
testing on test environment, security updates, application recommendations, Dell advisories, and so on, to prepare the required
updates. For more information about creating a repository, see the Dell Repository Manager documents available at Dell.com/
support/home.
• Update using FTP or HTTP—update any specic component to the latest update provided on the FTP or HTTP site. Dell IT prepares
a repository at a quarterly cadence.
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