Dell OpenManage Enterprise-Modular Edition Version 2.00.00 for PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis User's Guide

Managing firmware

The firmware feature in OME–Modular helps you to update the firmware of all the components in the chassis. The components include compute sleds, ethernet IOMs, storage IOMs, and SAS IOMs. The firmware updates can be sources from the Dell website or a custom repository setup using Repository Manager.

You must have the chassis administrator role and the device update privilege for the chassis to update the firmware on the chassis. To update the firmware on the components, you must have the device-specific manager role and device update privilege to perform the updates.

The MX chassis bundle refers to the following update packages:

• Chassis manager DUP—This DUP contains the OME–Modular firmware.
• Storage sled DUP—This DUP contains updates for the Dell storage sleds in the chassis.
• Storage IOM DUP—This DUP contains updates for the chassis storage IOMs.

The DUPs for network IOMs and switches are licensed software and are available as individual DUPs. For external storage, the DUPs are bundled in the catalog. If the hard drives or storage enclosures are assigned to a compute sled, you can update them using iDRAC. However, you cannot update the assigned or unassigned hard drives through a chassis context. You can map the drives to a server to update them.

The compute sled bundle refers to the packages for the server components—BIOS, NIC, RAID, hard drives, and iDRAC.

The firmware update process involves specifying the catalog, retrieving the firmware inventory, checking compliance, and updating the firmware.

The available baselines are displayed on the Configuration > Firmware Compliance page. You can view a summary of the baseline compliance and a pie chart on the top of the page. You can also view the summary of the desired baseline on the right side of the Firmware Compliance page.

The baseline information that is displayed on the Firmware Compliance page is—compliance, name of the baseline, job status, catalog type, timestamp when the baseline was last used.

The compliance status of the baseline can be of the following types:

• Ok
• Critical
• Warning
• Downgrade
• Unknown

You can perform the following tasks on the Firmware Compliance page:

• Create baseline
• Edit baseline
• View report
• Delete baseline
• Manage catalogs
• Check compliance