Management: Firmware Inventory; Viewing The Firmware Inventory - Dell PowerVault MD3200i Owner's Manual

Management: Firmware Inventory

A storage array is made up of many components, which may include RAID
controller modules, physical disks, and enclosure management modules
(EMMs). Each of these components contains firmware. Some versions of
firmware are dependent on other versions of firmware. To capture
information about all of the firmware versions in the storage array, view the
firmware inventory.
If the firmware inventory does not contain information for a particular
storage array, the firmware inventory service is not available on that storage
array.
You can also save the firmware inventory to a text file. You can then send the
file to your Technical Support representative to detect any firmware
mismatches.

Viewing the Firmware Inventory

To view the firmware inventory:
1 Perform one of these actions based on whether you want to view the
firmware information for one storage array or all storage arrays:
One storage array – From the Array Management Window, select
•
AdvancedMaintenance Firmware Inventory.
All storage arrays – From the Enterprise Management Window, select
•
Tools Firmware Inventory.
2 To save the firmware inventory to a text file, click Save As.
3 In Specify filename, enter a name for the file to be saved. You may also
specify another physical disk and directory if you want to save the file in a
location other than the default.
NOTE:
The suffix *.txt is added to the file name automatically if you do not
specify a suffix for the file name.
4 Click Save.
An ASCII text file that contains the firmware inventory is saved to the
designated directory.
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