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Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

jstuer — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:04:25 GMT

I have downloaded the .scexe file but do not know how to extract the .bin file I need to update the iLO. I copied it down to the ESXi server and ran sh ./CP015685.scexe. I get an error - Make sure these programs are on the path: tar gzip tail sleep rm ln mkdir mktemp

I also tried this command sh CP015685.scexe --unpack=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ilo I get the error that sh can not open CP015685.scexe

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Torsten. — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:40:58 GMT

Download the windows version, extract it on any windows pc and you get the *.bin file. Then use the ilo web interface and update.

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

jstuer — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:56:43 GMT

I have the file but how do you extract it?

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Goutham_Sabala — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:05:45 GMT

It is a .exe file, use a windows system and double click the file, you would get two options extract and install, click on extract and to a folder, you would find a .bin file, login to ILO and go to admininstration and browse to choose the .bin file

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

jstuer — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:07:02 GMT

It is not an .exe file rather a .scexe file. Windows does not have the software to open it.

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Torsten. — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:17:16 GMT

scexe is the linux hell archieve. get the windows file!

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

jstuer — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:30:27 GMT

Sorry, I kept clicking of the first link with out reading the whole description. I got the windows file and extracted the .bin. It took the file, but the log said firmware update via webpage failed.

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Goutham_Sabala — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:36:24 GMT

you may want to try it again , if not successful, do it through the fw dvd
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-94560dcc34e845edbb13a26792

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Oscar A. Perez — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:37:00 GMT

Did you use IE9 to upgrade the iLO2 firmware? I cannot use IE9 to upgrade my iLO2. It always fails.

I have been debugging this issue and it seems there is a bug with the Content-Length in IE9. It is telling iLO2 a wrong lenght value when uploading the bin file and iLO2 ends up declaring the image as invalid.

Edit: Ok, I found the root cause of why IE9 fails to flash iLO2 firmware. I'm getting it fixed in the next iLO2 firmware release.

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

jstuer — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:20:26 GMT

I tried again with IE 8 this time and it still failed.

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Goutham_Sabala — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:13:23 GMT

Strange, what about offline ? Was the offline ILO firmware succesful ?

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Oscar A. Perez — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:30:44 GMT

Your .bin file could be corrupted or incomplete. The binary for all the iLO2 versions 2.0x are 3072K bytes long.

Please try downloading the iLO2 v2.07 Windows Online component again, execute it and then select "extract" to a folder.

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Torsten. — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:37:59 GMT

Get this file and extract it:

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/sc-windows-fw-ilo/p1443420321/v71020/cp015686.exe

you will get this file

17.08.2011 10:38 3.145.728 ilo2_207.bin

Now connect to the ILO web page and use this file for update.

Have a look into the README.TXT file too.

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

jstuer — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:58:23 GMT

I got the iLO firmware updated using the USB key. Thanks everyone!

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Benco — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:59:09 GMT

It is definitely a browser issue. Faced the same problem, found this thread when searching for a fix, and tried it on an XP machine running IE 8 and it flashed no problem on both servers. On IE9 both failed at the very last step.

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Oscar A. Perez — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:58:13 GMT

It was a bug in the iLO2 webserver code that somehow surfaced few months ago after IE9 got some updates. It is related to the content length value that IE9 gives iLO2 when uploading the firmware image. But, not everybody running IE9 sees this issue. Also, I know by fact that if you use a proxy, you're likely not going to see this issue.

Anyway, the bug is fixed in iLO2 version 2.09

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

oyskolbe — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:37:12 GMT

Same bug in 209... Upgrade with IE9 fails, but with firefox everything is OK

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Oscar A. Perez — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:07:38 GMT

Are you already running 2.09 and upgrading to what?

By the way, I was told today that IE8 is exhibiting the same issue now.

Apparently, MS recently patched IE8 and it is now behaving the same way as IE9. The workaround is to upgrade iLO2 firmware to 2.09 using Firefox. Once 2.09 is up and running, next time you need to upgrade iLO2 firmware, you can use IE8 or IE9.

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Pwheeler — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:19:47 GMT

Just ran into this issue myself - both on IE7 and IE8.

Firefox workaround allowed me to upgrade allowed me to get from 1.78 to 2.09.

Re: Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

Oscar A. Perez — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:46:31 GMT

Please try upgrading from 2.09 to 2.12 using IE8 or IE9. It should work fine now.

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ITRC-remote-lights-out-mgmt-iLO/iLO2-v2-12-released-to-the-FTP/td-p/5735927