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The Image Library in Cisco UCS Central displays a list of all firmware images downloaded into the Cisco UCS Central local and remote file systems from Cisco.com. Access the Image Library through the System Tools icon.
Packages—Displays all firmware packages.
Downloads—Allows you to monitor the status of your downloads.
Use the firmware images when creating firmware policies.
In the Image Library, you can:
Delete any downloaded image by selecting the image and clicking Delete.
Note | If the firmware image you are trying to delete is referenced in a scheduled policy, the delete operation fails. You cannot delete this policy from the image library. |
Schedule Periodic Firmware Image Synchronizations
Sync firmware images with images on Cisco.com
Import Firmware Bundles
You can configure Cisco UCS Central to communicate with the Cisco website at specified intervals to fetch the firmware image list. After configuring Cisco credentials for image download, when you refresh, Cisco UCS Central fetches the available image data from Cisco.com and displays the firmware image in the firmware image library. You can download the actual firmware images when creating a policy using the firmware image version or when downloading the image using the Store Locally option.
Setup the cisco.com account with user credentials.
Accept EULA and K9 through the GUI.
Set the frequency of the sync (on-demand, daily, weekly, and bi-weekly).
Note | This process runs in the background and takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. The download time varies based on the number of images. |
Select an image from the metadata and download the image.
Make sure that you create a Cisco.com account to download firmware from Cisco.com to Cisco UCS Central.
Note | If you change users in the Cisco.com account, this causes a full synchronization of the Image Library. Download operations are unavailable while it is synchronizing. This can take up to 15 minutes, depending on the size of the library. |
Both the firmware management and hardware compatibility list credentials are managed through your cisco.com account.
Step 1 | Click the System Tools icon and choose Image Library. |
Step 2 | Click Packages to view the available packages. |
Step 3 | Select a package, or packages, and click the Import Selected Image icon. |
Step 4 | Click
Downloads.
You can view information about the status of the download in the table. |
Step 5 | In the Transfer
State column, click
Launch to view the status dialog.
View detailed information about the download status in this dialog. |
The following are the options to delete firmware images from the library:
Deleting the firmware image — You can delete any downloaded image in the firmware library by selecting it and clicking delete.
Purging the firmware image metadata — You can delete the image metadata using the purge option. Even after you delete the firmware image from the library, the metadata will still exist. You can use the metadata information to download the actual firmware image anytime from Cisco.com even after deleting the image. If you want to completely remove the firmware image and associated metadata from the firmware image library, make sure to delete the actual firmware image and purge the metadata from the library.
If you have already downloaded the image corresponding to the metadata into the firmware image library, you cannot purge the metadata without deleting the image.
You can only purge metadata through the CLI.
Command or Action | Purpose | |
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Step 1 | UCSC# connect operation-mgr |
Enters operations manager mode. |
Step 2 | UCSC(ops-mgr)# scope firmware |
Enters the firmware management mode. |
Step 3 | UCSC(ops-mgr) /firmware# scope download-source cisco |
Accesses the image metadata downloaded from Cisco website. |
Step 4 | UCSC(ops-mgr) /firmware/download-source# purge list |
Deletes the firmware images metadata from the library of images. |
The following example shows how to delete the image metadata from the library of images:
UCSC# connect operation-mgr UCSC(ops-mgr)# scope firmware UCSC(ops-mgr) /firmware # scope download-source cisco UCSC(ops-mgr) /firmware/download-source # purge list
The Capability Catalog is a set of tunable parameters, strings, and rules. Cisco UCS uses the catalog to update the display and configurability of components such as newly qualified DIMMs and disk drives for servers.
The catalog is divided by hardware components, such as the chassis, CPU, local disk, and I/O module. You can use the catalog to view the list of providers available for that component. There is one provider per hardware component. Each provider is identified by the vendor, model (PID), and revision. For each provider, you can also view details of the equipment manufacturer and the form factor.
For information about which hardware components are dependent upon a particular catalog release, see the component support tables in the Service Notes for the B- Series servers. For information about which components are introduced in a specific release, see the Cisco UCS Release Notes.
The contents of the Capability Catalog include the following:
The Cisco UCS Infrastructure Software Bundle includes Capability Catalog updates. Unless otherwise instructed by Cisco Technical Assistance Center, you only need to activate the Capability Catalog update after you've downloaded, updated, and activated a Cisco UCS Infrastructure Software Bundle.
As soon as you activate a Capability Catalog update, Cisco UCS immediately updates to the new baseline catalog. You do not have to perform any further tasks. Updates to the Capability Catalog do not require you to reboot or reinstall any component in a Cisco UCS domain.
Each Cisco UCS Infrastructure Software Bundle contains a baseline catalog. In rare circumstances, Cisco releases an update to the Capability Catalog between Cisco UCS releases and makes it available on the same site where you download firmware images.
Note | The capability catalog version is determined by the version of Cisco UCS that you are using. For example, Cisco UCS 3.x releases work with any 3.x release of the capability catalog, but not with 2.x releases. For information about capability catalog releases supported by specific Cisco UCS releases, see the Release Notes for Cisco UCS Software accessible through the Cisco UCS B-Series Servers Documentation Roadmap available at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing/b-series-doc. |
You must have a valid Cisco.com username and password to access the updated firmware bundles on Cisco.com. See Setting Up the Cisco.Com Account
Step 1 | Click the System Tools icon and choose Image Library. | ||
Step 2 | In the Image
Library page, click
Tools and choose
Schedule
Periodic Firmware Image Syncs.
This launches the Periodic Firmware Image Sync dialog box. | ||
Step 3 | Select the frequency for infrastructure firmware downloads from www.cisco.com: | ||
Step 4 | Click Cisco End User License Agreement and follow the steps to accept the EULA. | ||
Step 5 | Click K9 TM and follow the steps to accept the agreement. | ||
Step 6 | Click
Schedule.
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Make sure that you have downloaded the firmware bundle from Cisco.com and saved it in your local desktop or in a supported remote file system. Setting up a Cisco.com account
Step 1 | Click the System Tools icon and choose Image Library. | ||
Step 2 | On the Image
Library page, click the
Tools icon and choose
Import
Firmware Bundle.
This launches the Firmware Bundle Import dialog box. | ||
Step 3 | If you have a BIN file containing the firmware bundle in your local system, | ||
Step 4 | If you have the
firmware bundle in a remote file system,
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Add the firmware bundle to the appropriate policies and perform the upgrade.
Note | Remove the firmware bundle from all associated policies before deleting it. |
Step 1 |
In the
Actions bar, type
Create
Host Firmware Package Policy and press Enter.
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Step 2 | In the Host Firmware Package Policy dialog box, click Basic and choose the Organization where you want to create the policy. | ||
Step 3 | Enter a
Name and optional
Description.
The policy name is case-sensitive. | ||
Step 4 | Select the Blade Version and Rack Version of the firmware, as required for your environment. | ||
Step 5 | In the
Components tab, click
Add to select any components that want to exclude
from the firmware update.
The included and excluded components display. | ||
Step 6 | To exclude all components, click Excluded Components. | ||
Step 7 | To remove an excluded component, select it and click Delete. | ||
Step 8 | Click
Create.
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