Viewing and refreshing device inventory
View comparison report for devices against an update source in Maintenance Center page. On selecting an update source, a report is displayed comparing existing firmware to the firmware present in the selected update source. The report is generated dynamically on changing the update source. Server inventory is compared with update source, and suggestive actions are listed. This activity takes considerable time based on the number of devices and device components present. You cannot perform other tasks during this process. Refreshing inventory refreshes the entire device’s inventory even though you select a single component in that device.
About this task
Sometimes, the inventory of the device is updated, but the page does not display the latest inventory. Hence, use the refresh option to view the latest inventory information of the discovered devices.
To refresh and view firmware inventory of discovered devices:
Steps
In OMIMSSC, click Maintenance Center.
The Maintenance Center page is displayed with a comparison report for all the devices that are discovered in OMIMSSC against the selected update source.(Optional) To view a comparison report only for specific group of devices, select only the required devices.
(Optional) To view a comparison report, for another update source, change the update source by selecting an update source from Select Update Source drop-down list.
To view firmware information of device components such as current version, baseline version, and the update actions that are recommended by Dell EMC, expand the server group from Device Group/Servers to the server level, and then to the component level. Also, view the number of recommended updates for devices. Hover your cursor on the available updates icon to see the corresponding details of updates, such as number of critical updates, recommended updates.
The available updates icon indicator color is based on overall criticality of the updates and following are the critical update categories:
- The color is red even if there is a single critical update in the server or server group.
- The color is yellow if there are no critical updates.
- The color is green if the firmware versions are up-to-date.
Following update actions are suggested after populating the comparison report:
- Downgrade—an earlier version is available, and you can downgrade the existing firmware to this version.
- No Action Required—existing firmware is same as the one in update source.
- No Update
Available—updates are not available for this component.NOTE: There are no updates available for Power Supply Unit (PSU) components for MX7000 Modular Systems and servers in online catalogs. In case you want to update the PSU component for MX7000 Modular System, see Updating Power Supply Unit component for Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 devices. For updating PSU component for servers, contact Dell EMC support.
- Upgrade - Optional—updates are optional, and they consist of new features or any specific configuration upgrades.
- Upgrade - Urgent—updates are critical, and used for resolving security, performance, or break-fix situations in components such as BIOS.
- Upgrade - Recommended—updates are issue fixes, or any feature enhancements for components. Also, compatibility fixes with other firmware updates are included.
- After applying filters based on Nature of Update as Urgent, a report with the components only with urgent updates are displayed. If this report is exported, and then components with downgrade action which in turn have critical update is also exported.
- When there are multiple network interfaces available in a single NIC card, there is only one entry for all the interfaces in the Component Information list. After the firmware updates are applied, all the NIC cards are upgraded.
- When a NIC card is added along with the existing cards, the newly added NIC card is listed as another instance in the Component Information list. After the firmware updates are applied, all the NIC cards are upgraded.