Hello,
I have a number of R610s which I need to upgrade the DRAC firmware on, so they can talk to our new management system. Most of them upgraded fine when I stepped the versions gradually from 1.10.13 (their initial version) to 1.97.
About 7 of them, however, will not move past 1.10.13. I have firmware version 1.11 available via TFTP; when I attempt to install this (via idracadm from the local OS, or from a separate box, or via the SSH admin console) I first get "Firmware update is not currently in progress" then "Firmware update operation failed" on subsequent attempts until I perform a racreset. I have tried clearing out space by deleting the system logs, I have performed a factory reset, drained the flea power and the problem still persists.
I have also tried updating using the bootable media from the Dell Repository Manager as mentioned here http://lonesysadmin.net/2011/03/07/the-easiest-way-to-update-a-dell-servers-firmware/. No joy.
Finally I tried updating from a fresh install of CentOS; the upgrade appears to start but never finishes; fwupdate -s shows "Firmware update operation failed".
Are there any other approaches, or are there any logs I can check to see what is going wrong?
Thanks!