Dell Comprehensive Guide to iDRAC6 Firmware Updates and Configuration Utility

iDRAC6 Firmware Rollback

iDRAC6 has the provision to maintain two simultaneous firmware images. You can choose to boot from (or rollback to) the firmware image of your choice.

1Open the iDRAC6 Web-based interface and log in to the remote system. Click System→ Remote Access, and then click the Update tab.

2In the Upload/Rollback (Step 1 of 3) page, click Rollback. The current and the rollback firmware versions are displayed on the Status (Step 2 of 3) page.

Preserve Configuration provides you with the option to preserve or clear the existing iDRAC6 configuration. This option is selected by default.

NOTE: If you clear the Preserve Configuration checkbox, iDRAC6 is reset to its default settings. In the default settings, LAN is enabled. You may not be able to log in to the iDRAC6 Web interface. You must reconfigure the LAN settings using the iDRAC6 Configuration Utility during BIOS POST or the RACADM command (available locally on the server).

3Click Update to start the firmware update process.

On the Updating (Step 3 of 3) page, you see the status of the rollback operation. The progress, measured in percentages, appear in the Progress column.

NOTE: While in the update mode, the update process will continue in the background even if you navigate away from this page.

If the firmware update is successful, the iDRAC6 will reset automatically. You should close the current browser window and reconnect to the iDRAC6 using a new browser window. An appropriate error message is displayed if an error occurs.

Remote Syslog

iDRAC6 Remote Syslog feature allows you to remotely write the RAC log and the System Event Log (SEL) to an external syslog server. You can read all logs from the entire server farm from a central log.

The Remote Syslog protocol does not need any user authentication. For the logs to be entered in the Remote Syslog server, ensure that there is proper network connectivity between iDRAC6 and the Remote Syslog server and that the Remote Syslog server is running on the same network as iDRAC6.

Configuring the iDRAC6 Using the Web Interface

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