mass bios & firmware update on PE1855/1955 using OM IT Assistant

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:30:23AM -0000, Hostmaster wrote:
> Hi Honza,
> Is the unofficial firmware repo not suitable to your needs?
> 
> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware
> 
> You could even script a login to each of your servers, install the repo, upgrade
> the firmware from the repo, and schedule (or immediately) reboot. Only possible
> problem is last time I checked, the firmware repo is not currently flashing BMC
> firmware, and it only supports specific distros.

Repo now has all dell updates in it. :)

(Still only supports specific distros.)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Honza Novak [mailto:kacerr at developers.zlutazimnice.cz] 
> 1. i can update system bios, but i cannot update SAS controller (on 
> PE1955), is there a way how to do it using IT assistant?

No idea.

> 2. i don't like to run the bios update process as a root, because 
> regularly we have permitRootLogin=no in ssh deamons, can bios be updated 
> with different user that root? is it enough to be member of root group 
> (i don't think so, i fell that i tried this, but i'm not 100% sure).

Root is required in order to do hardware access to fiddle with
BIOS/firmware bits. No way around that.
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Michael