For DSU to work you need an OS with the Lifecycle controller you are independent of the OS. At our site we download all the firmware updates from the dell support site and copy then to our stepping stone server. The firmware updates are done by a program called "recite": * http://de.community.dell.com/techcenter/w/wiki/285.recite
For our cluster we have all kind of recite scripts. So we can control bios/network/raid-level/idrac settings and do firmware upgrades. This project has been abandoned by Dell in favor of the industry standard: * http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2014/09/05/dell-amp-redfish-what-you-need-to-know Currently redfish is too limited. It can not do firmware updates ;-( On 04/07/2017 00:21, Patrick Boutilier wrote: > We just install Linux and them use dsu to apply updates. > > https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/ > > > > On 07/03/2017 07:11 PM, Shane Forsythe wrote: >> This is not specific to Linux, I'm frustratingly still at the point >> where trying to apply updates before can goto install linux..... >> >> For awhile now there have been numerous posts about how absolutely >> horrid trying to do firmware updates via the Lifecycle Controller via >> ftp.dell.com <http://ftp.dell.com> has become. The bandwidth or >> hardware devoted to ftp.dell.com <http://ftp.dell.com> does not >> remotely seem up to the task, when the site is actually up and you can >> connect, it seems to take many hours for it to actually download the >> catalog. >> >> Numerous times on Dell Support forums it be suggested to download a >> bootable ISO that will do all the updates. I literally just spoke >> with support as I was having trouble even reaching ftp.dell.com >> <http://ftp.dell.com> , and that was the verbatim answer they gave me. >> >> >> Is that the preferred suggested course of action to upgrade Dell >> hardware currently? >> Once a month manually download an iso for each unique piece of >> hardware you are running? >> >> I was forced to download the one for my new unboxed R730xd , and am >> astonished how bad it is. >> >> There are 111 potential updates. There is no central logic, or >> inventory collection. >> >> Each and every updated package is executed sequentially. >> >> Each and every update package , separately does "Collecting Inventory" >> ( which takes a non trivial amount of time ). If that specific >> update doesn't apply to your hardware, you get "This Update package >> is not compatible with your system configuration" >> >> Even the most basic engineering effort could be made to simplify and >> streamline this process, this is most bare bones out of the box >> possible solution that could have been devised. >> >> The Lifecycle controller was sold as an innovative intelligent >> solution by Dell to completely automate the process, each step applied >> in the Dell approved order ... The initial marketing spiel used to >> sell it (the Lifecycle contoller) used the old out dated modes of >> manually download as an example of what an improvement this would be! >> >> Has the Lifecycle controller method of updating via ftp just fallen >> out of favor? >> Is the current vision/plan to just push out the bare bones ISO ? >> Will there be improvements to the infrastructure that back >> ftp.dell.com <http://ftp.dell.com>? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > -- --- Bas van der Vlies | Operations, Support & Development | SURFsara | Science Park 140 | 1098 XG Amsterdam | T +31 (0) 20 800 1300 | [email protected] | www.surfsara.nl | _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
