Upgrading HP NIC Driver for Servers

[Michael Mercogliano]

Can someone tell me the proper way to upgrade the NIC driver on a server. If I try installing it through version control manager from the HP SIM server or from the System Management Homepage from the server itself it fails 50% of the time. I know when the driver is updated the connection to the server is dropped momentarily however, when it does not complete successfully I lose all connectivity to the server which never returns. My only option is to connect to the server through iLO and login through the server console. When I go into device manager, the NIC device has a yellow (!). I have to uninstall the NIC and scan for new hardware. Then load the new drivers and reconfigure tcpip information.

Is anyone else having these issues or does anyone have a process that works?

Thanks,
-Mike

[JasonWoerner]

I have seen the same issue going to the Support Pack 8.10 version of ProLiant NICs. Several of my systems have failed during the install, leaving the NIC disabled. I could only manually install the driver to get it working.

[karim h]

Have you tried using HPSUM.EXE instead? (Software Update Manager on PSP distro)

It copies all of the required files to the server first and creates a HPSUM service to do an offline install...

[Tuscani_1]

Yea... SUM is much better.. i can't get it to work over firewalls though.. and I know the ports are open