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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.

The Things To Do panel displays a card when new firmware updates are available. From the todo, you can view the alerts for each new firmware update.

You can install a firmware update on a specific device from the Managed devices page or from a specific device’s Firmware inventory page by clicking the Update icon (Update icon). If the target devices have an assigned template, review the updates that are selected based on the template rules to complete the installation. If no template is assigned, follow the steps in the wizard to complete the installation.

Attention
Some components require the device to be restarted to complete the firmware update, such as unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI), network cards, RAID adapters, and disks. Additional restarts might be performed automatically until the update process is complete. Ensure that any running workloads are stopped or moved to a different server before restarting the device. You can find a list of devices that must be restarted from the Managed devices page by filtering for devices in the Pending state.

During the update process, if one component fails, the management hub continues to apply updates on the remaining components for the device and for other devices in the same job.

Firmware rules and criteria​

You can choose a default update rule to use generally for all device types and components. Then, you can then optionally select a custom rule for each type of device and component. If you do not select a custom rule, the device type inherits the default rule, and the components inherit the device-type rule. Changing the device-type rule also changes the components that inherit that rule.

The following default rules are available.

  • No default rule. You must select a custom rule for each device and component.

  • By tagged version. The following tags are supported.

    • Latest version. Firmware on the device is compared to the latest firmware version that is available in the firmware-updates repository.

You can choose the one of the following custom rules.

  • No rules. (default) The device or component type is not included in the template and is not checked for compliance.

  • Latest version. (default) Firmware on the device is compared to the latest firmware version that is available when the template is created.

    Important
    The version does not change when a later firmware update becomes available after the template is created.

  • Specific version. Firmware on the device is compared to the selected version, regardless of what is available in the repository. You can choose any version that is available in the repository.