Update RedHat Linux clusters BIOS/firmware with the SUU tool from Dell via the command line.
Latest version is located here. Filenames will be om6*.iso*
Copy the multi-part files (iso.001, iso.002, iso.003) into one folder, then create the iso, for example:
cat om* > om651_suu_a00.iso
Dependencies
Some dependencies are required for using this tool.
Java(JDK) – download self-extracting for 64-bit Linux here (as of the time of this writing)
In this example, we’ll put java in /opt/.
chmod +x jdk-*.bin; sh jdk-6u26-linux-x64.bin ln -s /opt/jdk-(version) /opt/jdk
When you try to execute SUU on a 64-bit RHEL operating system, it fails to execute since SUU is a 32-bit application.
To work around this issue, manually install the following RPMs:
yum -y install glibc.i686 compat-libstdc++.i686 libstdc++.i686 zlib.i686 libxml2.i686 libXp.i686 libXtst.i686 ncurses-libs pam.i686 procmail
or you may need to refer to the packages as i386 instead:
yum -y install glibc.i386 compat-libstdc++.i386 libstdc++.i386 zlib.i386 libxml2.i386 libXp.i386 libXtst.i386 ncurses-libs pam.i386 procmail
Run the tool:
Check for available firmware, BIOS updates:
suu -c
Run the updates and show progress
suu -u -p
Reboot after successful update to apply changes.
Latest as of Jan 2012 is OMSA 6.5.2, and it wasn’t easy to find:
ftp://ftp.dell.com/FOLDER00194297M/1/om652_suu_a00_file1.iso
ftp://ftp.dell.com/FOLDER00194305M/1/om652_suu_a00_file2.iso
ftp://ftp.dell.com/FOLDER00194316M/1/om652_suu_a00_file3.iso
OMSA SUU 6.5.3 is, at least for a limited time, located at:
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