Marmaduke Skies

It took a bit of Google searching and hocus-pocus to figure out how to patch the BIOS rev A04 on our old Dell PowerEdge SC1420 Server. Here's the magic incantation. ############################################################ # Dell Firmware Update for Ubuntu Linux, on Legacy Hardware ############################################################ # Install firmware update tool out of the universe repository apt-get install firmware-addon-dell # Not sure if this is needed, I didn't need it, but it's documented modprobe dell_rbu # Dump a list of all device ids in the system bootstrap_firmware -a # open http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bios-hdrs in a browser # search for IDs that appear in bootstrap_firmware output # In my case, the SC1420 is system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x0173 wget http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bios-hdrs/system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x0173_version_a04/bios.hdr # Queue the new bios to be updated durning the next warm-boot dellBiosUpdate -u --force-mono -

################################################# # XenApp 6 Client Version Retrieval Script # Created by Ben Piper # http://blog.benpiper.com, ben@benpiper.com ################################################# function convertToVersion($build) { switch($build){ 6685 {"13.0"; break}30 {"12.1"; break}6 {"12.0.3"; break}6410 {"12.0"; break}142{"Java"; break}317{"3.0"; break}324{"3.0"; break}330{"3.0"; break}349{"3.0"; break}304{"MAC 6.3"; break}314{"MAC 6.3"; break}323{"MAC 6.3"; break}326{"MAC 6.3"; break}400{"MAC 7.0"; break}402{"MAC 7.0"; break}405{"MAC 7.0"; break}406{"MAC 7.0"; break}407{"MAC 7.0"; break}402{"MAC 7.0"; break}411{"MAC 7.0"; break}500{"MAC 7.1"; break}600{"MAC 10.0"; break}601{"MAC 10.0"; break}581{"4.0"; break}606{"4.0";

''---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- '' this routine converts citrix internal build numbers to actual client version numbers ''---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- '' Sources -- '' '' http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=558285 '' http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX112613 ''---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- '' Last Update: 2013-03-04 15:18 ''---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ShortVer = "": LongVer = "" Select Case session.ClientBuild Case 0: LongVer = "Disconnected": ShortVer = " " Case 1: LongVer = "12.1.44" Case 3: LongVer = "11.2.2" Case 6: