Introduction, Offline adapter management utility – Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual

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1. Introduction

Offline Adapter Management Utility

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1. Introduction

This document explains how to use the adapter management utility kits for Linux and

Windows pre-boot environments (offline management), as well as, the FreeBSD

operating system.
You can also use adapter management utility kits for production environments referred

to as the online adapter management utility.

Offline Adapter Management Utility

The Offline Adapter Management Utility kits allow you to configure Emulex

adapters

before you install or boot a server operating system. You can also use a Standalone

Offline Adapter Management utility, which allows you to update firmware on Emulex

adapters without needing to install any tools. See “Running the Standalone Adapter

Management Utility” on page 485 for more information.
The offline utility includes:

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winlpcfg/Elxflash for Windows

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linlpcfg/Elxflash for Linux

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linlpcfg/Elxflash for FreeBSD

The winlpcfg and the linlpcfg are management utilities for adapter configuration and

diagnostics for Windows and Linux respectively. linlpcfg is also used for the FreeBSD

operating system. The lpcfg utility can also download firmware, but you must

manually select which adapters to update.
Elxflash is a firmware download utility. When the /auto switch is used, Elxflash

automatically chooses the "best" image to download. When the fwmatrix.txt file is used,

you choose which images to apply to adapters.
Additionally, Linux has an offline utility for network interface card (NIC) adapters

only. This utility uses operating system-provided features and utilities to discover

Universal Converged Network Adapters (UCNAs) and download firmware. This

utility relies on the inbox driver for supported distributions and only supports UCNAs.

information.

Note: The Offline Adapter Management utility, except for the standalone version,

must be installed on your system before you can run it. While the standalone

utility does not need to be installed before it is run, you must go to the directory

into which the standalone utility was extracted and run it from the command

prompt.

further information on the offline utility.