Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

Viewing Firmware Update Status for Clusters and Datacenters

For information to display on this page, run or schedule a firmware update for a cluster or a host.
On this page you can refresh, purge, or abort your firmware update jobs.
  1. From the OpenManage Integration, select Monitor > Job Queue > Firmware Updates.

  2. To display the most recent information, click Refresh.

  3. View the status in the datagrid. This grid offers the following information about firmware update jobs:

    • Status

    • Scheduled Time

    • Name

    • Description

    • vCenter

    • Collection Size

      The collection size is the number of servers on this firmware inventory job.

    • Progress Summary

      The progress summary lists the progress details of this firmware update.

  4. To see more details about a particular job, in the datagrid for a particular job, click on a item of master datagrid. The details are displayed in the details datagrid.

    Here you can find the following details:

    • Host Name

    • Status

    • Start Time

    • End Time

  5. If you want to abort a scheduled firmware update that is not running, click Abort.

  6. If you want to modify a scheduled job click on Modify.

  7. If you want to purge scheduled firmware updates, click Purge Job Queue.

    You can only purge jobs that are completed successfully or failed or else cancelled.
  8. Select the Older than date and job Status, and click Apply. The selected jobs are then clear it from the queue.