Re: Firmware Updates

Hello Greg,

Am 26.02.2024 um 20:37 schrieb Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

IBM should spend more time writing clear **concise** documentation, and spend less time cleansing their vocabulary of offensive terminology.

I'd go a step further. IBM should provide readymade applications to relieve the sysadmin from the chore of manually comparing values, and conditionally compute a result — something a computer is *built* to do! HP(E) shows that this is entirely possible. You insert an USB stick with a readymade Linux appliance into a server and boot from there. It scans the hardware, compares with a (local) repository, and outputs a list of recommended upgrades in a GUI list, where you can easily look up dependencies, and change logs. Then you click *one button" and it does all the tiny steps for individual component upgrades in the right order while the sysadmin can commit to do more useful work! Since it's automated, the whole process is less error prone than humans doing this alongside other work!

I'm aghast that IBM still gets away with their old-fashioned way of keeping current with firmware. IBM charges a *lot* of money for their "service". If I were a regular IBM customer, I'd use each and every chance to voice my opinion, and gather allies in the right spots (BP, COMMON, etc.) to force a change here!

:wq! PoC