How to upgrade SKY-9240 FW through IOL?

Purpose

SKY-9240 Firmware could be upgraded in the following ways through the HPM mechanism:

• From the Host: Over KCS or OS2BMC (https://sky-portal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018394552-How-to-upgrade-firmware-via-OS2BMC-) 
• Over LAN

This guide will demonstrate how to upgrade SKY-9240 Firmware via LAN.

Target Audience

All users who are using Advantech SKY-9K series products.

Procedures

Before the upgrade, please check the followings:

1. Ensure that the ipmitool utility works normally and the version of ipmitool is 1.8.17 or later.
2. Check node board's BMC IP under BIOS or IPMITool. <command: ipmitool lan print>
3. Set the system IP, which is connected to SKY-9240 for the upgrade, as the same domain as BMC IP.

• BMC bootloader:

# ipmitool -I lanplus -H BMCIP -U administrator -P advantech hpm upgrade bootloader.img activate

• BMC: Please run the following command twice for backup BMC.

# ipmitool -I lanplus -H BMCIP -U administrator -P advantech hpm upgrade bmc.img activate

• FPGA: Please power cycle the system after the upgrade, then run the command again for backup FPGA.

# ipmitool -I lanplus -H BMCIP -U administrator -P advantech hpm upgrade fpga.img activate

• System BIOS: Please power cycle the system after the upgrade, then run the command again for backup BIOS.

# ipmitool -I lanplus -H BMCIP -U administrator -P advantech hpm upgrade bios.img activate

• NVRAM:

# ipmitool -I lanplus -H BMCIP -U administrator -P advantech hpm upgrade NVRAM.img activate

• CPLD: Please notice that CPLD only can be upgraded by node A (Node 1). And, please run the following command again for backup CPLD.

# ipmitool -I lanplus -H BMCIP -U administrator -P advantech hpm upgrade cpld.img activate

• FW version Check: 

# ipmitool -I lanplus -H BMCIP -U administrator -P advantech hpm check