[CentOS] Dell firmware repository - out of date firmware?

Patrick Flaherty pflaherty at wsi.com
Wed Feb 6 15:08:33 UTC 2013


Joining the chorus of "Join the dell poweredge mailing list", but also
throwing in there isn't much in the way of sync between
bios/drivers/OMSA. updates. It's not uncommon to have versions of OMSA
in the repo that say the firmware you just updated from the repo is
out of date. Yes it sucks. I suggest you set up a copy of OME  (open
manage essentials) which makes managing/updating/reporting on your
bios/firmware rather easy. It's free other than the psychological
trauma of having SNMP enabled on all your servers.

Patrick

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:01 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> SilverTip257 wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:32 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/6/2013 12:50 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote:
>>> > Is the dell hardware repo serving old versions of firmware/drivers?
>>>
>>> Ask Dell. its their repo.
>>>
>>>
>> Yep, ask Dell.
>
> I *think* the last time I d/l and burned a DVD of their stuff, a few
> months ago, it was still CentOS 5.x - 6, maybe?
>
>        mark
>
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