ILO Firmware update via command line with ipmitool.

[yesilbeyaz]

Here are each screen shot and you can see servers' model. Note that firemware download button on some of them says only this:

Firmware Download

  TFTP Server IP Address: Firmware File Name:
(Relative to TFTP server's root)

Please enter TFTP server IP address and firmware fully qualified filename.
Refresh browser for status.

Note: After a successful download the BMC will automatically reset.

[Torsten.]

these are all LO100.

get the bootable usb image from the web.

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=3884344&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D2%257CswItem%253DMTX_c77431f956cd43abac1d982a18%257CswEnvOID%253D54%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D4%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vig...

For virtual media/kvm you need the advanced licence.

[anthony11]

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@Jimmy Vance wrote:

Not sure if it is possible to do the firmware over ipmi. You can extract the .scexe file and load the .bin file using the iLO web interface

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I've been doing that for BIOS on ESXi iLO4 systems, but in this case, why not just run the .scexe file directly?

[Torsten.]

Here is the linux file (Version 4.26):

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=3884344&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D%257CswItem%253DMTX_6b04eb2ec8914f979aba383fab%257CswEnvOID%253D4103%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vig...

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

Note that Torsten's link was for G6/G7 series servers with LO100 only.

For the version of LO100 in DL140 G3, you'll need another download:

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=3285485&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D2%257CswItem%253DMTX_9df362b092b84437808a936bf5%257CswEnvOID%253D1005%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D4%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.v...

[yesilbeyaz]

Thank you guys. Some more questions;
Is LO100 older version of ILO1 ?

@anthony11
    Can you please post the command that you use to flash BIOS via ipmitool within linux? All my servers are Debian based. So I may try to upgrade LO from ssh using ipmitool?
    
On linux file version page, .scexe file, there are these linux versions,
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (AMD64/EM64T), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (AMD64/EM64T), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (x86-64), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (x86), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (AMD64/EM64T), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server (x86), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server (x86-64)
    
Our servers are debian so can I still install .scexe file?
    
Thank you again.

[Torsten.]

create the bootable usb key and boot to update. a reboot is needed anyway.

[Jimmy Vance]

LO100 is not in the same family as any generation iLO. It was used in the G6/G7 ProLiant 100 series systems.  The 300, 500, 700 series ProLiant and the Blade server all have iLO

the .scexe file is pretty much a shell script.  you should be able to run the scexe file and if all the dependencies are there it should work. If not you can extract the files by running something like listed below so you can poke around in the scripts

/filename.scexe --unpack=path/that/you/select

[yesilbeyaz]

As I said in first post, I can not mount iso image, It does not work on some server. And I read also some other having same issue. So I tried to upgrade LO via alternative method. From SSH by ipmitool, or PXE boot.

[anthony11]

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@yesilbeyaz wrote:
As I said in first post, I can not mount iso image, It does not work on some server. And I read also some other having same issue. So I tried to upgrade LO via alternative method. From SSH by ipmitool, or PXE boot.

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What ISO image?  iLO 2 2.20 is available here:

http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=1135772&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D%257CswItem%253DMTX_a79b65b946b34074be3be46402%257CswEnvOID%253D%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignett...

Download the .scexe file and run it.

For iLO 1 (which I've never used) 1.94 is here:

http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=397991&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D%257CswItem%253DMTX_67869b1e7b5a4e459885406e98%257CswEnvOID%253D%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette...

 If you had a .iso file, you could just copy that to the system and do a read-only loopback mount to extract files from it.