How to upgrade firmware via BMC IPMI LAN channel 2

SKY-9240 supports BMC IPMI LAN channel 2 through host USB interface to upgrade firmware easier, for more details please refer Advantech_SKY9240_Advanced_Platform_management_Users_Guide.

Procedures:

• Upload firmware image to OS.
• Check BMC MAC 2 IP via the following command. Default BMC MAC2 IP should be 192.168.2.1.

# ipmitool lan print 2

• BMC MAC2 network should be detected as a USB Ethernet device under OS (x86). Please Set the IP of USB Ethernet (like enp0s20f0u4u4 in the following example) as the same domain as BMC MAC2 IP.

# ethtool -i enp0s20f0u4u4
driver: cdc_eem
version: 22-Aug-2005
firmware-version: CDC EEM Device
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: usb-0000:00:14.0-4.4
supports-statistics: no
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no

# ip a |grep enp0s20f0u4u4
5: enp0s20f0u4u4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
 inet 192.168.2.100/24 scope global enp0s20f0u4u4

• Check the BMC IPMI LAN channel 2 connection through "ping".

# ping 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.40 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.479 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.458 ms

• Run below command to upgrade firmware.

# ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.2.1 -U administrator -P advantech hpm upgrade firmware.img
PICMG HPM.1 Upgrade Agent 1.0.9:

Validating firmware image integrity...OK
Performing preparation stage...
Services may be affected during upgrade. Do you wish to continue? (y/n): y
OK

Performing upgrade stage:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|ID | Name | Versions | % |
| | | Active | Backup | File | |
|----|-------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----|
| 1|8312 BMC | 1.03 00000000 | 1.03 00000000 | 1.03 00000000 |100%|
| |Upload Time: 03:06 | Image Size: 10414410 bytes |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(*) Component requires Payload Cold Reset

Firmware upgrade procedure successful

• Activate the firmware via KCS.

# ipmitool hpm activate

• Check firmware upgrade is successful or not.

# ipmitool hpm check