This is most probably due to the existing iDRAC setup lacking required information about newer security certificate information for the much newer update installer. Check the Job Queue to see the results. If you find a failed result, try with a lower version. An IT Pro, here is my online knowledge sharing platform.
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Can't remember exactly on the R, but on boot I believe F10 will take you into the Lifecycle controller. That said, F10 goes to "system services". I can't get it to update either. I've tried SUU, executables, the smart bootable cd from repository manager I'm really at a loss on what to do here.
Well - you are in some odd territory. Seems like you have some hardware mix of different firmware levels. You could try what the second to last post in this thread talks about.
Also - not sure where you are getting the old 1. I see 1. You could try and jump to 1. Not sure how old of a level the LC is at.
Seems Bios being at 6. I also see they have a LifeCycle repair package too. THEN I get a. SO I instruct Repository Manager save the downloaded plugin in a folder.. Had the same issues updating bios and firmware on a PE with no operating system on it. Booted fine on a laptop so I know this part was okay. Installed fined. Rebooted and went to Dell site again to download BMC firmware. This also seems to have worked.
Should ask you if you still want to proceed. Dell support told me to use their Dell Distribution Package utility, copy the bios file into a specific directory and burn a cd. First attempt was trying through UCS but no F10 option available so I had to update the UEFI first, after this and booting into UCS and doing the updates I found out that this procedure is quite time consuming considering it wanted to boot after every update which is really not necessary.
The booting proces into UCS itself is already annoying long so to do this with 6 more blades was not an option. All in all, almost 2 weeks time for updating 7 Dell blades…. This creates a bootable ISO that is scripted. Reboot the server into it and let it go. I stuck the DVD in the optical drive, went into the boot options and booted the image without difficulty.
Our servers are waaaay out of date and it took about four hours to run the whole update. Lots of errors pop up durig the process which Dell support says is normal but I regard as bad form and they suggested I run it once or twice again to make sure everything was updated. The additional rounds took 15 minutes each. Everything appears to have updated properly and be working normally.
How companies of this caliber can miss the fucking mark on stuff like this is astounding!! All they had to do was purchase Alteris way back when. Every few years Dell changes the way they want to update their hardware.
After 2 or 3 hours of fireing the small WAN connection sorry dear users working remotely I figured out that it took 15min to boot this crap off by virtual media in the iDRAC6. Finally, in the end you dont even see the desktop: iDrac Virtual Console displays: Out of range. Nice work guys!!! I had to reset the server to get out of it. Damn, this is real pain. Wasting half of a day just to TRY to update a single host! I like Dell in many ways, but this is pure crap!
Trying to use System services? Nah… its corrupted. System hangs. Ok, wanna reflash system update? Nah… need newer iDRAC for that. Wanna update iDRAC? Nah… u need windows installed for that. So i install windows.. Now i found a ISO at dell. And it is like thos every friggin time. Hours and hours passing by… just because u wanna update BIOS and firmware.
Cuz the version i had was too old. Needed a version inbetween to flash first the dell support guy told me. Werll… where do i find it? He called back after a while and told me… they didnt have it. So they had to send out a guy to change my mobo. Me again. Dell, I loved you but since today I hate you. Toke me over 6 hours of wasting time with your unstable, not working monster ISOs, and the even worse Dell Repository Manager 1.
And what do you thing is the sense in rebooting automatically into your useless Lifecycle controller after it received one of the three firmware updates? Why dont you simply automatically reboot then, wehen It loaded the first time? Damn, go patch your servers alone!
Or do a field test and take admins and tell them to install updatetes on Dell G11 and G12 servers and then take the responsible Dell guy and put him in a room with all those frustrated admins. The experience to get to there from here was the nightmare incarnate referenced and footnoted above.
Then I shifted gears and found a BDP utility somewhere and as all things Dell promising the world, I managed to download it and make it work on a Win7 workstation.
Sounds simple eh? Back to the BDP. It was written for BIOS 6. The obvious problem rose up when Dell released 6. However, that is and should not be the case. Seems the braintrust sprung a leak while making the make-image and copied only the files in the BIOS subdirectory.
So many secrets, so little time. Since the CD image requires physical access to the server and it takes over five minutes to shut down, restart, update and reboot, it seems more than reasonable that this is indeed a secure enough method to protect the secrets held in the bowels of my testbeds.
At the same time, why not update the BIOS itself to permit USB boot, since it is possible after jumping through a number of flaming hoops. Lets report it and get it fixed. So this option is not looking like it will work. However, when you try to "apply" the updates, each one comes up with "The updates you are trying to apply are not dell authorized updates" Then it tries to install them, then comes up with : "update failed Improve this question.
Chris 3 3 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Chris Chris 3 3 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Thanks Christophe. It says the repository manager is only for systems running windows. Our dell servers have on OS, and will never run windows, unfortunately.
Or is it saying the repository manager only runs on widows? If so will it run on a windows 8. I just read the repository manager info, and it says it creates windows executable update pages.
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