What are the RSA NetWitness DAC Disk Firmware details

Issue

What information is there available for the DAC disk firmware updates?

Customer wants to know if a DAC disk firmware update is available for their DAC disks?

Workaround

Additional details about the available DAC disk firmware updates are shown in the below table.

Resolution

To show what firmware versions are available on a NetWitness appliance, run the following command:

 [root@NW NwDiskFw]# grep fw /opt/rsa/saTools/NwDiskFw/fwUpdateInfo.txt |cut -d: -f2 |sort -u
 
 'BS1B'
 
 'C188'
 
 'C29C'
 
 'C442'
 
 'GS1F'
 
 'GS20'
 
 'YS1D'

Note: The rsa-sa-tools rpm must be installed for the above command to work.

Running the /opt/rsa/saTools/NwDiskFw/nwUpdateDiskFw.py script will show if a DAC disk firmware update is available. You can then select to not upgrade at this point.
Below are some example outputs when running the nwUpdateDiskFw.py script.

 [root@NWCONC NwDiskFw]# ./nwUpdateDiskFw.py
 
Following updates available:
 
Location FW File
 
-------- ---- -------------------
 
1:031:07 C442 453-005-555_S05.bin
 
1:031:08 C442 453-005-555_S05.bin
 
1:031:09 C442 453-005-555_S05.bin
 
1:031:10 C442 453-005-555_S05.bin
 
1:031:11 C442 453-005-555_S05.bin
 
1:031:12 C442 453-005-555_S05.bin
 
1:031:13 C442 453-005-555_S05.bin
 
1:031:14 C442 453-005-555_S05.bin
 
Would you like to apply these updates? [y/n]:
 
[root@NWDEC NwDiskFw]# ./nwUpdateDiskFw.py
 
INFO: No disks requiring FW update found
 
[root@NWVMDEC NwDiskFw]# ./nwUpdateDiskFw.py
 
INFO: No RAID adapters found

Product Details

RSA Product Set: NetWitness Logs & Network
RSA Product/Service Type: Core Appliance
Product Name: DAC hardware
Product Description: DAC disks

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