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JobQueue is full in iDRAC and unable to upgrade firmware??

 

Hello There,

I was working recently on upgrading the firmware for Dell Power Edge servers due a requirement.

As usual, I did the download of the necessary firmware update file and uploaded it in the iDRAC and started the upgrade.

Waited for couple of minutes, If I can say, it was almost 15 minutes without any progress.

I tried to check the log/job queue in the iDRAC and found it was full of old entries and I tried clearing it but found no option.

Later after findings, I managed to find a command which clears the jobqueue, and below is the command I used after logging into iDRAC via SSH.

racadm jobqueue delete -i JID_CLEARALL_FORCE

Once the above command was executed, I tried to login to iDRAC and check the job queue and found everything was cleared.

Whats next??

Tried uploading the file again and then managed to successfully update the firmware.

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