Need HBA firmware info on BL680C running Linux 2.4.21-58.ELvmnix

[Martin Meadows]

We need to determine the firmware version on the HBAs in our HP Proliant BL680C G5 Blades. They are running Linux version 2.4.21-58.ELvmnix. Any assistance is appreciated. Thank you!

[Gerardo Arceri]

If i recall correctly the firmware is uploaded to the hba by the driver at the moment it gets loaded, but if you Hit Ctrl-Q to enter the Qlogic BIOS during Post you can see the "hard" firmware level.

[Martin Meadows]

Thanks very much for your feedback.

I sure hope the only way to see the firmware version on the BL680C HBAs doesn't involve taking down the system.

Anyone else?

Thanks again :-).

[Jan Soska]

Yes, there are an easy ways.
a)
Log into SAN switch where is your server connected (locate the port first!),run Zone admin, find port of your server. go down the tree-list, at the bottom is your firmware and driver version.

b)
run HBA software to determine HBA firmware - Sansurfer if you have Qlogic, HbaAnywhere if you have Emulex ones. If not installed, install it first.

c)
could be determined via linux command, I am not sure about exact syntax, you need to use:
cat /proc/scsi/qla2300/* - just list /proc/scsi/....

Jan

[Martin Meadows]

well ... we have brocade switches ... so it seems that we're not quite able to follow a couple of your suggestions ... although they all seemed very good ... and probably the HBAnware idea probably would work ... but ultimately in a roundabout way they helped us to the use of the linux lspci command which showed us:

12:00.0 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation LPe11000 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Adapter (rev 02)
12:00.1 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation LPe11000 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Adapter (rev 02)
16:00.0 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation LPe11000 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Adapter (rev 02)
16:00.1 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation LPe11000 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Adapter (rev 02)

... which seems to be enough information for our purposes although hbanwyware would probably give us a better number ...

[Martin Meadows]

correction: the brocade switch thing only affects your first response.

With regard to your last response:
could be determined via linux command, I am not sure about exact syntax, you need to use:
cat /proc/scsi/qla2300/* - just list /proc/scsi/....

We found that the only file or data in /proc/scsi is a text file called scsi which has information about the symmetrix the Blade is hooked to ... but nothing about the HBA firmware.

[Jan Soska · Accepted solution]

Hello Martin,

so - I can provide more detail...
At least we know you have an Emulex HBA foc c-class blades.

This will help you:
for 2.4 kernels, you can find the firmware version by typing cat /proc/scsi/lpfc/n, where n is the host adapter port that is represented as an SCSI host bus in Linux, for example, Firmware Version: 1.81 (H2D1.81X1)
After you ran it, you will know your firmware and you can use this HP link to download driver, firmware and HBAnyware utility to upgrade it if you want.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=1844101&taskId=135&prodTypeId=3709945&prodSeriesId=1844100〈=en&cc=us&submit=Go%20à »

to make it effective, you stil have to reboot the server.

I hope you are happy camper now... :)


Jan

[Martin Meadows]

Very happy. Thanks to all of you :-).