Backing Up And Restoring Hardware And Firmware Configurations; Backing Up Current Firmware And Hardware Configurations; Configurations - Oracle X6 series Administration Manual

Backing Up and Restoring Hardware and
Firmware Configurations
This section provides procedures for backing up, restoring, and replicating system firmware

configurations.

Task
Back up the current BIOS, Oracle ILOM, or RAID
configuration.
Restore a saved BIOS, Oracle ILOM, or RAID
configuration.
Reset the BIOS firmware to factory defaults.

Backing Up Current Firmware and Hardware Configurations

To prevent the loss of functioning firmware settings, back up the current BIOS, Oracle ILOM,
or RAID configurations. Backed up configurations can be restored on the server or on another
server in your data center. The following procedures describe how to back up firmware
configurations to an XML file using the system administration tools:
"Back Up the Current BIOS Firmware Configuration (Oracle ILOM)" on page 102
■
"Back Up the Current Oracle ILOM Firmware Configuration (Oracle
■
ILOM)" on page 103
"Back Up the Current BIOS Firmware Configuration (Oracle Hardware Management
■
Pack)" on page 104
"Back Up the Current Oracle ILOM Firmware Configuration (Oracle Hardware
■
Management Pack)" on page 105
Link
"Backing Up Current Firmware and Hardware
Configurations" on page 101
"Restoring Saved Firmware
Configurations" on page 105
"Resetting the Firmware to Default
Settings" on page 110

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