Scan multiple servers for out-of-date BIOS/firmware

wolf2k5 wolf2k5 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 09:52:40 CST 2008


I've already have OMSA installed on all servers.

Am I supposed to manually compare the firmware version for each server
with the latest available version from Dell site or is there any way
to automate that or at least do it centrally?

Thanks.

On Jan 7, 2008 3:43 PM,  <Patrick_Boyd at dell.com> wrote:
> You can install the OMSA managed node software on both Windows and Linux
> servers. The software provides a MIB to SNMP that contains many server
> properties, including firmware version (BIOS, RAID card,
> Enclosures/Backplanes, Drives, DRAC, BMC) you can then compare these
> versions to your desired versions and it will point out which servers
> are out of date



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