How to check firmware of HP UX 11.0

[Viswanadhan]

Hi All,

How to check firmware of HP UX 11.0

# uname -a
HP-UX SERVER B.11.00 E 9000/887 486398211 8-user license

And I want to know the HDD firmware version.

Let me know is there any command to check for 2 things.

[Glenn S. Davidson]

If you have the OnLineDiags installed you can check this.

Another place, I think, is from the console (GSP) prompt.

[Viswanadhan]

Hi,

Thanks for reply,

Can u guide me how to do it.

Regards,
Viswanadhan.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Yes, if you have the Online Diagnostics installed then you can examine the PDC firmware revison numbers as well as the individual disk firmware revision numbers. The easist to use is the Motif-based GUI version, xstm but you can use character-based interface version, mstm or the command-line version, cstm. Man stm for details.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Okay, you are one of the lazy ones:

Do something close to this (assuming that cstm is installed):

echo "map selall info;wait; infolog" | cstm > /tmp/outfile

Then examine /tmp/outfile with a text editor or simply cat the file. It will list data for all detected hardware.

[Viswanadhan]

Hi All,

How to see that kernel firmware version.

Regards,
Viswanadhan.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

"kernel firmware version"??? - The kernel is a software itself and does not have a firmware as such!! Firmware is applicable to disk devices, controllers, HBA cards, etc...

What is your objective?

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Viswanadhan]

Hi ,

I hope we HP UX is starting then we can see the firmware version display on the front panel of the hp ux server.

That firmware version i want to check from command line.

Regards,
Viswanadhan.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Kernel firmware is a non sequitur. You can see the PDC (System board firmware) version by interrupting the boot process and selecting the INFO menu. If you want to do it from the command line then the cstm command I gave you will work --- iff, Online Diagnostics are installed.

[Viswanadhan]

Hi Clay,

Thanks for ur info. Let do it.

Regards,
Viswanadhan.

[Torsten.]

This looks to me like a (very) old G-/H-class server - must be ~15 years old.

What drives are installed? 2GB? 4GB?

It is very unlikely that you will ever find "newer" firmware for the server or the drives, but if you find, you will be unable to install it probably (drive fw), because the tools are password protected.

BTW, using "stm" you will find the drive firmware.