Owner's Manual

Deploying 879
7 To begin the deployment process, either click on the Deploy Now button to start the deploy
process, or click on the
Schedule Deploy… button to launch the scheduler form (see
Scheduling Downloads on page 888). Clicking the
Cancel button aborts this operation.
Reboot
Some devices require a reboot after you deploy firmware. For example, Dell Powerconnect devices
have (2) OS image banks – one active and one inactive. During the deployment process, the
inactive bank receives the image. You must then restart the device to make this newly updated bank
the active one. Deploying does not update the remaining downlevel image bank (now inactive).
This software displays a message in job status and the audit trail stating that, if the upgrade to the
new firmware version/bootcode is successful, you must ensure that the other image also is upgraded
to the new firmware. You can elect to reboot as part of the deployment too.
Best Practices
Executing or scheduling a resynchronization on your systems before and after performing updates
is suggested. By performing a scan before, you ensure that you have retrieved the latest driver,
firmware, and BIOS inventory information from your systems before comparing their configuration
to the latest available update package. Scanning after the update ensures that you capture the
latest information about the new inventory so that the latest information appears in the server
audit history and as a reference.
Best practice is also to download any updates each quarter (see Download on page 885). This
ensures that you have the latest version of download packages and captures any interim changes
that could have been made to those packages if you downloaded them previously.
NOTE:
If the name of the download package has not changed but you know its contents changed, you may need
to delete the previous version from the OS Manager to have the new package appear as available for
download.
If a patch fails during the deployment, the update process stops. To receive the patches that come
sequentially after the failed update, you must unselect the failed patch in the next update try.