Backing Up And Restoring Hardware And Firmware Configurations; Backing Up Current Firmware And Hardware Configurations; Configurations - Oracle X7 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 BIOS, Oracle ILOM, or RAID
configurations to an XML file. Backed up configurations can be restored on the server or on
another server in your data center.
To restore firmware settings from a backed-up XML file, see
Configurations" on page
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 90
■
"Back Up the Current Oracle ILOM Firmware Configuration (Oracle
■
ILOM)" on page 91
"Back Up the Current BIOS Firmware Configuration (Oracle Hardware Management
■
Pack)" on page 93
"Back Up the Current Oracle ILOM Firmware Configuration (Oracle Hardware
■
Management Pack)" on page 93
Link
"Backing Up Current Firmware and Hardware
Configurations" on page 89
"Restoring Saved Firmware
Configurations" on page 94
"Resetting the Firmware to Default
Settings" on page 100
94.

Backing Up and Restoring Hardware and Firmware Configurations

"Restoring Saved Firmware
89