Idrac6 Firmware Rollback; Remote Syslog - Dell IDRAC6 User Manual

iDRAC6 Firmware Rollback

iDRAC6 has the provision to maintain two simultaneous firmware images.
You can choose to boot from (or rollback to) the firmware image of your choice.
1 Open the iDRAC6 Web-based interface and log in to the remote system.
Click System Remote Access, and then click the Update tab.
2 In the Upload/Rollback (Step 1 of 3) page, click Rollback. The current
and the rollback firmware versions are displayed on the Status (Step 2
of 3) page.
Preserve Configuration provides you with the option to preserve or clear
the existing iDRAC6 configuration. This option is selected by default.
NOTE:
its default settings. In the default settings, LAN is enabled. You may not be
able to log in to the iDRAC6 Web interface. You must reconfigure the LAN
settings using the iDRAC6 Configuration Utility during BIOS POST or the
RACADM command (available locally on the server).
3 Click Update to start the firmware update process.
On the Updating (Step 3 of 3) page, you see the status of the
rollback operation. The progress, measured in percentages, appear in
the Progress column.
NOTE:
background even if you navigate away from this page.
If the firmware update is successful, the iDRAC6 will reset automatically.
You should close the current browser window and reconnect to the
iDRAC6 using a new browser window. An appropriate error message is
displayed if an error occurs.

Remote Syslog

iDRAC6 Remote Syslog feature allows you to remotely write the RAC log and
the System Event Log (SEL) to an external syslog server. You can read all logs
from the entire server farm from a central log.
The Remote Syslog protocol does not need any user authentication. For the
logs to be entered in the Remote Syslog server, ensure that there is proper
network connectivity between iDRAC6 and the Remote Syslog server and
that the Remote Syslog server is running on the same network as iDRAC6.
If you clear the Preserve Configuration checkbox, iDRAC6 is reset to
While in the update mode, the update process will continue in the
Configuring the iDRAC6 Using the Web Interface
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