how to update PERC5 and 6 firmware remotely?

[George Bourozikas]

On Thu April 2 2009 00:32:51 Adam Williams wrote:
> On my PE2900's, 1900's, and 6800's, when I look at the OMSA web
> interface, they report on the PERC controller that the firmware is out
> of date.  Is there a way to remotely update the firmware on them?  They
> all are running CentOS 5.2 (some i386 and others X86_64).
>
> 	Status: Non-Critical
> 	Driver version is out of date.
[...]
> Firmware Version     5.2.2-0072
> Driver Version     00.00.03.15-RH1
> Minimum Required Driver Version     00.00.03.20

This means that the controller's firmware is aware of the existence of a newer 
driver but the driver is not installed.  It's probably not available for 
CentOS yet.

--george