Bull Escala EL260B, Installation And User Manual

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Escala Blade EL260B - Installation and User's Guide
4.1 Updating the firmware
Bull periodically makes firmware updates available for you to install on the blade server,
the management module, or expansion cards in the blade server.
Important:
To avoid problems and to maintain proper system performance, always verify that the
blade server BIOS, service processor, and diagnostic firmware levels are consistent for all
blade servers within the Bull Blade Chassis. See Verifying the system firmware levels on
page 41 for more information.
Plan to use a method of applying blade server firmware updates other than the
management module. The Escala EL260B blade server enhanced BMC has a larger
firmware image that makes it impractical to download and install over the RS-485 bus of
the management module. Therefore, a firmware update for the blade server is not
supported from the management module.
You can still use the other methods of performing firmware updates for the blade server:
− In-band operating system capabilities, such as the update_flash command for
Linux and AIX or the ldfware command for Virtual I/O Server.
−
The firmware update function of AIX in-band diagnostics
−
The firmware update function of the stand-alone Diagnostics CD
Attention:
Before the installation of the new firmware to the Temporary side begins, the contents of
the Temporary side are copied into the Permanent side. After the firmware installation
begins, the previous level of firmware on the Permanent side is no longer available
Use the following procedure to install updated firmware.
1.
Start the TEMP image, as described in Starting the TEMP image on page 41.
2. Download the Escala EL260B blade server firmware.
3. Log on to the AIX or Linux system as
root
, or log on to the Virtual I/O Server/IVM
alpha partition as
padmin
.
4. Type
ls /tmp/fwupdate
to identify the name of the firmware.
The result of the command lists any firmware updates that you downloaded to the
directory, such as the following update, for example:
01EA3xx_yyy_zzz
5. Install the firmware update with one of the following methods:
− Install the firmware with the in-band diagnostics of your AIX system, as described
in "Using the AIX diagnostics to install the server firmware update through AIX" in
your AIX documentation.
−
Install the firmware with the update_flash command on AIX:
cd /tmp/fwupdate
/usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/update_flash -f 01EA3xx_yyy_zzz