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AM5030

IPMI Firmware User Guide

ID: 1042-7364, Rev. 1.0

Page 33

5.2.2

Firmware Upgrade - “ipmitool hpm”

Firmware upgrade using a HPM.1 file requires at least “ipmitool” version 1.8.10.

The firmware upgrade procedure starts with downloading the HPM.1 file using:

ipmitool hpm upgrade

.hpm

all

for example.

The next step is the activation of the newly downloaded MMC firmware, this is done using:

ipmitool hpm activate

To get detailed information about the firmware versions which are currently active or of the
redundant copies, the following commands can be used:

• ‘

ipmitool hpm compprop 1 1

returns detailed version information of active MMC firmware.

• ‘

ipmitool hpm compprop 1 3

returns version of rollback copy (only valid if a newly downloaded firmware is already ac-
tivated).

• ‘

ipmitool hpm compprop 1 4

returns version of the newly downloaded MMC firmware (only valid after download and
before activation).

Detailed information about the MMC’s HPM.1 upgrade capabilities can be determined using:

ipmitool hpm targetcap

5.2.3

Firmware Upgrade - “ipmitool fwum”

The firmware upgrade procedure starts with the downloading of the binary firmware file using:

ipmitool fwum download

.bin

for example.

The next step is the activation of the newly downloaded MMC firmware. This is done using

ipmitool fwum upgrade

To get detailed information about the firmware versions which are currently active or of the
redundant copies the following command can be used:

ipmitool fwum status

returns detailed version information of redundant firmware copies.

Some information about the MMC’s upgrade capabilities can be determined using the com-
mand:

ipmitool fwum info