Description: Rounding Up IT Outlaws
Best Practices , Data Center , Hardware , How To , Security , System Administration , Virtualization , VMware
I’ve become quite the minimalist in my environments, mostly because I’ve been doing a lot of compliance & security work. Speaking generally, most hardware management tools don’t & won’t pass any form of compliance audit and in that context are way more trouble than they’re worth (negative ROI, see my post “ Free, Like a Puppy “). I tend to skip anything that isn’t delivered directly as part of the OS from the OS vendor. It’s a complication I don’t need or want. I use this same thinking when updating Dell Po
With Dell hardware you can get the iDRAC to do firmware updates directly, either through the GUI, SSH, or the racadm client tool. Racadm can be obtained from support.dell.com . From there, here’s what I do, often in a PowerShell ForEach loop or pasting from an Excel spreadsheet .
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