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Management: firmware inventory, Viewing the firmware inventory – Dell POWERVAULT MD3620I User Manual

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Management: Firmware Inventory

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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 the

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 File name dialog box, 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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