RMM/MSP firmware updates of IBM/Lenovo Servers

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#220406 9-Aug-2017 15:12

As an MSP we are now looking to automate our Firmware patching on System X servers, which are the majority of our servers out in the wild.

We have been doing it manually afterhours for some time, and we are looking to automate it a bit more. It seems IBM Systems Director is EOL, so I am currently loading up Lenovo Xclarity, which has a big flaw, as an agentless system its only for the local network, not to connect to 40+ Servers sitting on client sites.

Is there a viable alternative software to allow us a GUI to update multiple servers Firmware's at remote sites in one go? we are 80% systemX Lenovo/IBM servers, and perhaps 20% HP servers at our client sites.

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#1843115 9-Aug-2017 22:37

If you are just pushing latest, setup a scheduled task with OneCli? Otherwise scheduled task to pull down and execute a script/ini from the cloud that does the specific updates you want via OneCli?

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#1845045 11-Aug-2017 10:56

I've only just started looking into this now, never event thought of onecli, as I have done everything gui in the past. We have been doing it manually so far, and while we still want to firmware update manually, (old habits die hard) having a visual indication of where we are with the firmware status of our servers will greatly improve our services

will have to run the onecli acquire as a custom scheduled task say once a month per server, has to be custom per server due to different Machine types

can use our RMM for the rest, perhaps a monthly compare report fired back into Labtech, custom data field to query, giving us notification, and then allowing us to schedule a CLI run firmware update process.

Shane Le Brun MCSA 08R2
Grinding LabTech RMM daily