Dell PowerEdge EL Updating BIOS on Dell 12th-Generation PowerEdge Servers - Page 25

Updating BIOS on Dell 12G PowerEdge Servers 6. To perform a firmware update, select one of the options that are available for updating. 1 (update) BIOS Installed 159 1.0.4 BIOS 7. The script will prompt for the location of the Dell Update Package (DUP) to be used. This location is called the Update Repository; see item 3 in Error! Reference source not found.. iDRAC supports the following download methods with source URI syntax:  FTP ftp://[IPADDRESS]/[LOCATION]/[DUPFILENAME]  HTTP http://[IPADDRESS]/[LOCATION]/[DUPFILENAME]  TFTP tftp://[IPADDRESS]/[LOCATION]/[DUPFILENAME]  CIFS cifs://[USER]:[PASSWORD]@[IPADDRESS]/[LOCATION]/[DUPFILENAME];mountpoint=[MOUNTN AME]  NFS nfs://[IPADDRESS]/[LOCATION]/[DUPFILENAME];mountpoint=[MOUNTNAME] The portions of the syntax in all capital letters represent user-provided values. The [IPADDRESS] is the IP address of the update package repository. The [LOCATION] is the path or directory. The [DUPFILENAME] is the update package file name. The only supported update package is the "Dell Update Package for Windows" that can be downloaded from support.dell.com. [USER] and [PASSWORD] refer to the user credentials allowed to access and download from the share. [MOUNTNAME] refers to the share mount name. The following is a sample output: Options tftp://192.168.0.100/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE nfs://192.168.0.100/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE;mountpoint=/pub cifs://DOMAIN\\USER:[email protected]/pub/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE;mountpoint=E http://192.168.0.100/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE ftp://192.168.0.100/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE Enter the path of the image file: tftp://192.168.0.100/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE 8. The script prompts for a reboot type with which the host will be rebooted to perform the update. Select an appropriate reboot type. Reboot Type Options (1,2,3, and 4) 1 = Forceful shutdown and reboot 25