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6 upgrading ipmc firmware, 7 example upgrade procedure – Artesyn SAM1411 Installation and Use (September 2014) User Manual

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Firmware Upgrade Facility

SAM1411 Installation and Use (6806800M91B)

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3. Reboot the blade:

# reboot

6.5.6

Upgrading IPMC Firmware

Upgrading IPMC Firmware

Follow these steps to upgrade the IPMC firmware. The IPMC firmware becomes active
immediately after the successful upgrade.

1. Copy the IPMC firmware file to the ATCA-SAM1411 in the /root directory. The

firmware file is not stored within the ramdisk.

2. Query the current IPMC firmware on the ATCA-SAM1411.

# fcu -q -d atca-sam1411-ipmc

3. Show the version of the new IPMC image.

# fcu -s -f /root/ATCA_sam1411-upgrade-.hex

4. If the IPMC version in the release is newer than the current version installed,

upgrade the IPMC firmware.
# fcu -v -u -f /root/ATCA_sam1411-upgrade-.hex

5. Query the IPMC to ensure the new version is installed and activated.

# fcu -q -d atca-sam1411-ipmc

6.5.7

Example Upgrade Procedure

The following procedure should be used to upgrade to a new release of firmware/software on
a pair of Shelf Managers.

In the procedure below, ShM A and ShM B reference the standby and active ShMs, respectively.

1. Copy the new sam1411-cpu.fri, sam1411-dtb.fri, sam1411-kernel.fri, and

ramdisk.image.gz

files to /usr/local on ShM A.

2. Copy ATCA_sam1411-upgrade-.hex file to /root on ShM B.