Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Is the concept of the Lifecycle Controller just being abandoned by Dell?

Is that OME for whatever Linux distro you use or do you use the OME vCenter plugin? On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 2:11 AM, Cameron Smith wrote: > IMHO The Lifecycle Controller works great and I manually upload firmware > upgrades to it's job queue all the time. It is also

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Is the concept of the Lifecycle Controller just being abandoned by Dell?

IMHO The Lifecycle Controller works great and I manually upload firmware upgrades to it's job queue all the time. It is also what handles updates sent from OME which I also use. ftp.dell.com on the other hand is a joke. It needs to be rearchitected to handle the bandwidth to deliver files quickly

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Is the concept of the Lifecycle Controller just being abandoned by Dell?

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": *

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Is the concept of the Lifecycle Controller just being abandoned by Dell?

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

[Linux-PowerEdge] Is the concept of the Lifecycle Controller just being abandoned by Dell?

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 has become.