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Firmware

You can use Lenovo XClarity One to maintain firmware on your managed devices. You can use the health summaries to identify the firmware health of your devices, view the firmware status to know what firmware versions are available for each device, and update the desired firmware version on target devices.

Firmware inventory in XClarity One​

Lenovo ensures that the latest firmware versions are available in XClarity One. You can view the list of available firmware by clicking the Firmware tab in the context menu from the Device management view. The firmware inventory is organized by device types, components, and then available versions. Each firmware version has a status based on its age and number of vulnerabilities.
  • Critical. (red) A later firmware version that fixes critical or high vulnerabilities.
  • Warning. (amber) A later firmware version that fixes non-critical (medium or low) vulnerabilities.
  • Normal. (green) The latest firmware version, or a later firmware version that has a new feature but no vulnerabilities.

You can view details about a specific firmware version, including the release date and list of fixed vulnerabilities, by clicking the firmware version.

You can see the number of devices that have the specific version of firmware installed. Click the number to see a filtered list of devices with that firmware version.

Firmware inventory for a specific device​

You can see a list of firmware that is installed on a specific device by clicking the Managed devices panel title from the Device management view, and then click the name of the device in the table to display the device details page. Then, click Firmware status from the context menu.

This page lists the current firmware version, firmware status, and latest available update for each managed device.

Firmware health​

You can see a summary of firmware health of all managed devices in your organization by clicking Overview in the context menu from the Device management view.

You can also view the firmware health of each managed device and their components by long pressing the title of the Managed devices card on the Overview page, and select Firmware status from the context menu

XClarity One uses the firmware age and highest severity vulnerabilities to determine the firmware status of each component in your managed devices.
  • Up to date. The device has firmware that is less than 1 year old and has no warning or critical vulnerabilities.
  • Available updates. The device has firmware that is 1 – 2 years old or has warning vulnerabilities but no critical vulnerabilities.
  • Critical updates. The device has firmware that is greater than 2 years old or has critical vulnerabilities.

For devices with assigned templates, you can determine whether the firmware on each devices is compliant with the rules and criteria in the template from the Template column in the table.

  • Security vulnerabilities
    Firmware updates often have fixes for common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). You monitor the which managed devices have firmware updates that fix these vulnerabilities.
  • Firmware updates
    Lenovo XClarity One uses the management hubs to apply firmware updates to your managed devices. When you initiate a firmware update from the XClarity One portal, XClarity One pushes the required update packages to the appropriate management hub and then sends a request to the hub to apply the update on the target devices. The management hub sends status, progress, and log data back to the XClarity One portal during the update process so you can monitor progress.