Itforce LLC·Monday, November 21, 20161 Read Recently i have tried to update my R720 PE Dell servers firmware (suspecting that multiple SATA hdd damages are due to wrong not updated RAID controller firmware, btw wrong suspect), but got below error: At first i thought that it’s temp ftp.dell.com server problem, later that it’s due some problems with DNS for ftp.dell.com in Mongolia. But everything was easier, just in wrong outdated iDRAC version (and integrated into it LC/lifecycle controller) so that LC couldn’t properly get firmware  <span><a href="https://www.itforce.mn/index.php/2017/02/05/how-to-update-dell-firmware-from-lifecycle-controller-with-error-the-updates-you-are-trying-to-apply-are-not-dell-authorized/" class="readmore">Continue reading &rarr;</a></span>{"id":62,"date":"2017-02-05T13:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T13:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/?p=62"},"modified":"2017-02-08T09:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T09:51:16","slug":"how-to-update-dell-firmware-from-lifecycle-controller-with-error-the-updates-you-are-trying-to-apply-are-not-dell-authorized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/2017\/02\/05\/how-to-update-dell-firmware-from-lifecycle-controller-with-error-the-updates-you-are-trying-to-apply-are-not-dell-authorized\/","title":{"rendered":"How to update Dell firmware from Lifecycle Controller with error \u201cThe updates you are trying to apply are not Dell-authorized .."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_39k2\">\n<div id=\"js_16p\" class=\"_4lmk _2vxa autofocus _5s6c\" tabindex=\"-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2yud clearfix\">\n<div class=\"_ohe lfloat\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_42ef _8u\">\n<div class=\"_3uhg\"><a class=\"_2yug\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itforce.mongolia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Itforce LLC<\/a><span class=\"_4_mg\">\u00b7<\/span><a class=\"uiLinkSubtle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/itforce-llc\/how-to-update-dell-firmware-from-lifecycle-controller-with-error-the-updates-you\/336059763439447\">Monday, November 21, 2016<\/a><i class=\"lock img sp_mJEJaBUEKO8 sx_13f5b1\"><\/i><span class=\"_5q4y\">1 Read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_39k5 _5s6c\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">Recently i have tried to update my R720 PE Dell servers firmware (suspecting that multiple SATA hdd damages are due to wrong not updated RAID controller firmware, btw wrong suspect), but got below error:<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"_2cuy _4nuy _2vxa\">\n<div class=\"_h2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"u_p_0\" class=\"_h2z _297z _usd img\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t31.0-8\/p720x720\/15194437_336063860105704_2383268147164675167_o.jpg?oh=389db5134c6d7b7b3333b1d59c5c6ef5&amp;oe=590C646C\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">At first i thought that it\u2019s temp ftp.dell.com server problem, later that it\u2019s due some problems with DNS for ftp.dell.com in Mongolia. But everything was easier, just in wrong outdated iDRAC version (and integrated into it LC\/lifecycle controller) so that LC couldn\u2019t properly get firmware from Dell ftp.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">So just go to Dell site:<\/div>\n<ul class=\"_5a_q _5yj1\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<li class=\"_2cuy _509q _2vxa\">enter your server tag<\/li>\n<li class=\"_2cuy _509q _2vxa\">and download the latest iDRAC firmware (not legacy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"_2cuy _4nuy _2vxa\">\n<div class=\"_h2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"u_p_1\" class=\"_h2z _297z _usd img\" src=\"https:\/\/fb-s-c-a.akamaihd.net\/h-ak-xtp1\/v\/t31.0-8\/15129011_336064836772273_229708062742632156_o.jpg?oh=23309a706792dcd161c918c8e439ed5f&amp;oe=5943508C&amp;__gda__=1493870905_8821103c6832e1834663ea77638c9442\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<ul class=\"_5a_q _5yj1\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<li class=\"_2cuy _509q _2vxa\">upload and update iDRAC from :<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"_2cuy _4nuy _2vxa\">\n<div class=\"_h2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"u_p_2\" class=\"_h2z _297z _usd img\" src=\"https:\/\/fb-s-b-a.akamaihd.net\/h-ak-xap1\/v\/t31.0-8\/15167732_336066896772067_8715935474044741524_o.jpg?oh=aaac4f4ddeb761f23cfa4cf7548bd8af&amp;oe=59445BCE&amp;__gda__=1494250720_47b75ab429037aae2d438746b7acdc35\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<ul class=\"_5a_q _5yj1\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<li class=\"_2cuy _509q _2vxa\">restart server and try again \u201cFirmware Update\u201d from LC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">ps<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">Btw it\u2019s good practice to update firmware for your server &#8211; very few in Mongolia do it (not only BIOS firmware). Especially firmware for your storage, even for SAS hard drives, RAID controllers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}