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Update System or Service Processor Flash Service Aid
Note: This service aid is only supported for Online Diagnostics
This service aid allows you to update the system or service processor flash.
Additional update and recovery instructions may be provided; also you need to know
the fully qualified path and file name of the flash update image file. If the flash
update image file is on a diskette, you need the AIX DOS utilities package to process
the diskette. You can use the dosdir command to find out the name of the update
image file. This service aid uses the dosread command to put the file into the /var
file system.
Refer to the update instructions, or to the System Management Services “Config” on
page 4-4 or “Display Configuration” on page 4-25 or Service Processor menus on
page 3-7, to determine the level of the system unit or service processor flash. Using
this service aid to update the system or service processor flash will not save the
current contents of the flash.
The flash image file will be copied in the /var file system. If there is not enough
space in the /var file system for the flash update image file, an error is reported. If
this occurs, exit the service aid, increase the size of the /var file system and retry the
service aid. After the file is copied, a warning screen will ask for confirmation to
continue the flash update. Continuing the flash update will eventually cause the
system to reboot and return to the AIX login prompt. After the system unit reboots,
the file /var/update_flash_image can be removed to conserve space in the /var file
system.
Display Firmware Device Node
Note: Runs on CHRP systems units only.
This task displays the firmware device node information that appears on CHRP plat-
forms. The format of the output data will not necessarily be the same between dif-
ferent levels of AIX. It is intended to be used to gather more information about
individual or particular devices on the system.
Display Resource Attributes
This task will display the Customized Device Attributes associated with a selected
resource. This task is similar to running the lsattr -E -l resource command.
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