Updating Idrac6 Firmware - Dell iDRAC6 User Manual

–s ; display current status
CAUTION:
All characters including alphanumeric and special characters are
allowed as part of username, password, and image_location except the following
characters: ' (single quote), "(double quote), ,(comma), < (less than), and > (greater
than). When using remote file share, the characters listed above are not allowed
as part of the user name, password, and image_location.
NOTE:
The remoteimage RACADM command is not available in OpenManage™
version 6.1 local RACADM.

Updating iDRAC6 Firmware

Updating iDRAC6 firmware installs a new firmware image in flash memory.
You can update the firmware using any of the following methods:
• SM-CLP load command
• iDRAC6 Web interface
• RACADM CLI
• Dell Update Package (for Linux or Microsoft Windows)
• DOS iDRAC6 Firmware update utility
• CMC Web interface
Downloading the Firmware or Update Package
Download the firmware from support.dell.com. The firmware image is available
in several different formats to support the different update methods available.
To update iDRAC6 firmware using iDRAC6 Web interface or SM-CLP , or to
recover iDRAC6 using the CMC Web interface, download the binary image,
packaged as a self-extracting archive.
To update iDRAC6 firmware from the managed server, download the
operating system-specific Dell Update Package (DUP) for the operating
system running on the server whose iDRAC6 you are updating.
To update iDRAC6 firmware using the DOS iDRAC6 Firmware update
utility, download both the update utility and the binary image, which are
packaged in self-extracting archive files.
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