Dell POWEREDGE R720 - Manual (Page 25)

Update Dell™ Server Hardware with Dell OpenManage Essentials
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on the selected managed system, the task status set to “Complete”. An Inventory task is run 20
minutes after the software update task completion to fetch updated inventory.
14. To view the “Execution Details” of the task, double click on the task or right click on the task
and select “Details” To copy execution details result, click on “Copy Results”
System Update Task (iDRAC) Execution Status
Figure 13.
Note: Server will be rebooted after the system update task is complete. Inventory task runs
automatically 20 minutes after system update task is completed and inventory of the server will
be updated.
System Updates on correlated devices – Servers and iDRACs
Correlation is the process of relating resources to each other. OpenManage Essentials manages and
identifies the relationship between resources (Server and iDRAC) that are discovered by different
protocols.
Dell PowerEdge servers can be updated using OMSA & iDRAC method. IT administrator can use OMSA
& iDRAC update method when there is a specific requirement to update System components BIOS,
Firmware, Applications & Drivers or only BIOS, Firmware and Applications.
Table 2. Supported devices and protocol(correlation)
Dell PE Servers iDRAC iDRAC Firmware
Versions. Protocol Correlation
11G [Tower, RAC & Modular] iDRAC6 1.40 above & 2.2
above SNMP+WS-Man, WMI+WS-
Man
12G [Tower, RAC & Modular] iDRAC7 1.0 & above SNMP+Ws-Man, WMI+WS-
Man