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November 17th, 2016 12:00
Remote Enterprise Firmware Updates
We have hundreds of R420, R430, R510, and R610 servers, all with iDRAC, running RHEL 5.8, 6.2, 6.8, and 7.2, across the US.
OMSA is installed on each of the servers.
We need to be able to update BIOS and other firmwares remotely.
We are having problems determining which Dell software(s) is needed to perform this process.
Which application(s) should we use: RACADM, DLR, DSU, SUU, etc...
We are aware that the servers running RHEL 5.8 may not be able to use any of the above applications and are currently rewriting our applications to allow us to upgrade these servers to RHEL 7.2.
I'm not sue which forum I should add this, so please, educate me if I have posted to the wrong Discussion.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
DELL-Martijn G
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November 18th, 2016 00:00
Take a look at Dell OpenManage Essentials (OME)
OpenManage Essentials is a systems management console that provides simple, basic Dell hardware management and is available as a free download.
Dell OpenManage Essentials is the latest release of our easy to install, intuitively simple to use, and customer-acclaimed, One-to-Many systems management console that is optimized to provide comprehensive lifecycle management of Dell PowerEdge converged, rack and tower servers. OpenManage Essentials also delivers extensive infrastructure health monitoring, control, and support for Dell servers, storage, networking, business clients, firewall appliances, and 3rd party hardware.
http://delltechcenter.com/ome
Randall CTR Price
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November 21st, 2016 05:00
This looks amazing, but can it be managed exclusively from Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Due to the hardening and security requirements of our systems, we would prefer to keep our environment exclusively RHEL.
Thank you,
Randy
DELL-Martijn G
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November 21st, 2016 06:00
Not at this time, OME is Windows based software that uses IIS Web server and SQL Express for the database.
That may change in the future.
The management from OME is Out-of-Band, so directly to the iDRAC's and completly OS agnostic.
One other option might be to look at our Linux repo at http://linux.dell.com/
Dell-svc
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November 21st, 2016 21:00
Hi,
You can try using Linux yum repository using the DSU tool.
Documentation can be found here .
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/
You may also do local repo sync with this yum repository and update machines one by one.
Thanks
Shabu
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November 21st, 2016 22:00
You can use following rsync command to make an offline repository.
1. Get the latest DSU repo link from http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/
Example: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/DSU_16.02.00/
2. Use repo/hardware/ to pull the repository using rsync
Example: rsync -avHz linux.dell.com::repo/hardware/DSU_16.02.00 /var/www/html/target_folder