Re: Do I need to update diagnostics firmware?

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Ray Van Dolson rvandolson@esri.com wrote:

About to bump my N3600 A20 (FAS 2050C) from Data ONTAP 7.3.1 to 7.3.5.1.  Our BIOS and BMC are current at 3.0 and 1.2 respectively, but our diagnostics firmware is at 5.3.6 (the latest is 5.4.6).

Couple of questions:

• Should I really update the Diagnostics firmware, or do many of you

just leave it as-is if you're at the latest BIOS anyways?

I update it, when there is an update and after the update has been out for a reasonable amount of time so others can find the bugs first ;)

• Is it possible to update the Diagnostics firmware only (don't reflash

the BIOS, etc) and somehow avoid needing to fail-over to my other  controller and reboot?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think they're separable.

Thanks! Ray