How to upgrade/downgrade BMC firmware on one BMC platforms via NodeExplorer & IPMITOOL ?

1. Purpose:

Upgrading BMC F/W for one BMC platforms. The available IPMI interfaces for upgrade/downgrade are KCS and IOL with RMCP+ protocol.

    KCS interface: The upgrade process is executed from local OS.

    IOL interface: Leverage NC-SI and upgrade firmware remotely.

Upgrade sequence :

Please follow the sequence in order to avoid unexpected behavior after upgrade.

Upgrade:

BMC --> BMC Configuration

Downgrade: 

BMC Configuration --> BMC 

In this article, we describe steps to upgrade/downgrade firmware using different methods.

2. Audience:

All users with one BMC supported SKUs.

3. Prerequisites:

ipmitool is 1.8.17 or later

One BMC supported related devices.

4. Procedures:

A- Via Node Explorer

1.  Please follow How to access node explorer to access Node Explorer
2.  Go to the Maintenance >> Firmware Upgrade page:
3.  Select the xxx.img file to upload and start to upgrade.

Note 1: Please repeat the above instructions to upgrade the backup Firmware.

Note 2: The steps remain the same for downgrade.

Note 3: BMC configuration needs to be upgraded or downloaded once.

B- Via IPMITOOL

Ensure that the ipmitool utility works normally and the version of ipmitool is 1.8.17 or later.

• Please run the following command twice to backup BMC.

# ipmitool -z 270 hpm upgrade bmc.img activate

• FW version Check: 

# ipmitool hpm check 

Note 1: The process remains the same for downgrade.

Note 2: BMC configuration needs to be upgraded or downloaded once.

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