topic Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update in Server Management - Remote Server Management

Preconfigure iLo firmware update

Aaron.S — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:02:34 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to put together a scripted installation for numerous OSes, and one of the requirements is that I update iLo's firmware prior to any OS being installed on each Blade. I havn't the faintest how I would configure / implement this.

Is there a command line execution or batch file that could be scripted or a remote push of the firmware?

Any help iPrintable version

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-Aaron

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

Michael Garner_1 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:58:20 GMT

Aaron,
If you download the Firmware Maintenance CD, you can use the HPSUM utility to remotely update the iLO firmware. It is located in the \compaq\swpackages directory. Run HPSUM, select a remote installation and enter the IP address (and when prompted, the credentials) for the target iLO. Please be sure to use Firmware CD 8.30 or later to have this ability. The link to the latest Firmware CD is at:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3546421&prodNameId=3687290&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-73c82be98b5f4eb3ac4b72c2e3

Regards,
Michael

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

Aaron.S — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:41:32 GMT

Thank you Michael,

I know that HPSUM, can be initiated on the command line using startc.exe. If there a particular formating I could use to initialize the iLo firmware update on it's own to the target system?

I'm trying to re-build a dozen Altiris OS deployments, as the previous versions seemed to have been missing their ntldr... kind of important. Haha.

I'm hoping I can identify the remote PC based on it's DNS name, and in turn, use a variable in my script to ensure it always points to the system to which the job has been issued?

Answers to any of the above are much appreciated, I know I started to ramble a bit.

Thank you for your time and help,

-Aaron

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

Michael Garner_1 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:08:14 GMT

Aaron,
You can use the /target: for setupc. If you want to do multiple targets on the console by scripting it, you must use HPSUM directly. Just pass multiple /target IP_Address|DNS Name and HPSUM will take care of going to multiple targets. Underneath, setupc just calls HPSUM anyway. To script multiple iLOs, just do the following:

hpsum /s /target target1 /target target2 /target target3

You must use the /s to get HPSUM to run in silent mode.

Regards,
Michael

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

Aaron.S — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:47:53 GMT

So in running that, it will realize/ignore the fact that there is no opperating system on which to install drivers, and will solely concern it's self with updating all firmware components?

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

Michael Garner_1 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:42:02 GMT

That is correct. HPSUM would communicate with the NIC port on the iLO directly without a need to actually communicate with the target server itself. The IP address you pass must be the iLO NIC port's IP address to get this feature to work. This feature was added to the Firmware CD 8.30 and HPSUM 3.4.0 and later.

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

lightxx — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:17:43 GMT

sorry to bring up this thread from the past, but i've downloaded the latest Firmware Maintenance CD (8.50), and whatever i try HPSUM won't detect ILO 2s, only first gen ILOs, and gives me a "not compliant" error when i try to update an ILO 2.
also, when i try to update HPSUM via FTP it crashes at 99% with a fatal error. tried that on 3 different servers now (2k8 x64, 2k3 x64, 2k3 x32) with the same result.

any ideas?

thanks,
Tom

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

Michael Garner_1 — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:29:03 GMT

Thomas,
A bad catalog that HPSUM uses was published late Monday and will cause HPSUM to fail if pulling updates from the web at 99% as you have stated. An updated catalog was built and is in the process of being released. It should be available in the next 12-18 hours depending on how long it takes to propagate across all the HP servers.

I'll need more information about the type of server you are seeing the iLo2 error on and more information about where you see the "non-compliant" message.

Regards,
Michael

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

lightxx — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:29:43 GMT

Michael, thank you very much for your quick reply.

i tried to update various ILO-2s (all of them being version 1.70) on a number of different servers (mostly DL380 G5s & BL460s), and on every server i tried HPSUM suggested that the latest version was 1.90 (this is true for ILO1), but refused to apply the update (sure enough, as it should apply the ILO-2 1.77 update).

thanks,
Tom

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

lightxx — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:50:23 GMT

just to clear things up, i was running HPSUM on a DL380 G4, but tried to update ILO-2 remotely with different /target: (i also tried supplying different hostnames / IPs in the GUI), and always ended up with 1.90 as the latest available firmware and the not compliant or not compatible (i'm not in the office now) message ...

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

Michael Garner_1 — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:11:22 GMT

Thomas,
The issue with HPSUM failing at 99% should now be fixed.

On the other issue, the DL380 G4 you reference had an iLO1 in it and not an iLO2. Based on that, you should have only seen versions 1.93 or 1.94 available depending on which Firmware CD you used. If you manually attempt to force the iLO2 firmware on these servers, you will get a non-compliant/not-compatible message as you state. This is working as it should. I just tried an update to the iLo2 in a DL380G5 I have here in my lab with version 1.77 and HPSUM 3.5.0 correctly picked out the iLO2 firmware component and flashed it with no problems.

Regards,
Michael

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

lightxx — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:38:56 GMT

Michael, thanks again for your answer.

what i'm trying to do is to batch - update 50++ servers (all of them being either DL380 G5s or BL460cs) from ILO 2 1.70 to 1.77.

i'm not trying to force my DL380 G4 (this is the machine where HPSUM is installed and run from) to update to ILO 2. this is impossible, except if you managed to swap the management board.

if i start hpsum with providing a /target:[ip of an ILO2 management board], i end up with HPSUM telling me that 1.90 was the latest version and that this version was not supported on the target platform.

so, long story short, i want to update a bunch of ILO 2s, but i don't want to connect to every single ILO (>50) do to the update job.

i thought by providing a /target: or by providing an IP / hostname of a remote machine HPSUM could remotely update the ILO.

thanks,
Tom

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

lightxx — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:01:52 GMT

to further clarify things, please take a look at the attached screenshots :)

http://gallery.t-h.cc/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=38145&g2_serialNumber=1

http://gallery.t-h.cc/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=38150&g2_serialNumber=1

http://gallery.t-h.cc/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=38155&g2_serialNumber=1

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

lightxx — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:02:31 GMT

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

Michael Garner_1 — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:01:24 GMT

Thomas,
Can you zip up the files in the %TEMP%\hp_sum directory and attach them to this issue. You might have to delete the .exe files and the .bin files to get it under the 1MB limit for the forum post but that is OK (or provide a link to a web server as you did with the pictures). The trace files located there will indicate to me what HPSUM is doing and why it thought the target was an iLO1 instead of an iLO2.

Thanks,
Michael

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

lightxx — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:09:50 GMT

here you go:
http://kraxn.t-h.cc/hp_sum.zip

thanks,
Tom

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

lightxx — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:15:33 GMT

lol. the trace files include the plain-text ILO passwords... probably someone should have a word with somebody about that...

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

Michael Garner_1 — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:24:35 GMT

Thomas,
I get an error trying to download the zip file stating it is short 50261 bytes. Can you validate the file for me?

Thanks.

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

lightxx — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:25:01 GMT

god how i hate that crappy NitroInspection...
please retry, it should work now ...

thanks,
Tom

Re: Preconfigure iLo firmware update

lightxx — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:26:08 GMT

you probably need to flush your browser's cache (at least when using FireFox) before retrying ...