How to update SKY-8101 firmware via IPMI HPM

Purpose

Utilize BMC HPM command to upgrade system firmware on SKY-8101 series.

Upgrading F/W with HPM via ipmitool is supported by the BMC. Two of the available IPMI interfaces are KCS and IOL with RMCP+ protocol support.
Via the KCS interface, the upgrade process is executed from the local OS.
The IOL interface, which leverages NC-SI, allows upgrading from remote. With IOL, Its support is used to improve the update duration.

Audience

All users who are using Advantech SKY-8101 series products.

Steps

> Find BMC IP address :

User can get BMC IP address through command “ipmitool lan print <No.>” under quick start linux (QSL) or any bootable Linux OS w/ ipmitool installed. 

* <No.> = 1 ~2 interface mapping is below

> Perform F/W upgrade from an External machine which connects to MGMT ports 

Commands will be followings 

#ipmitool -I lanplus -H <BMC-IP> -U administrator -P advantech hpm upgrade <File.img> activate

 

 

Upgrade sequence

If there're multiple f/w need to be updated , following sequence is must to prevent any unexpected behavior after upgrade.

BMC  --> BMC Bootloader --> FPGA or CPLD --> BIOS -->BIOS NVRAM*

* BIOS NVRAM contains lots of BIOS default settings and update this via hpm is also highly recommended even it should be automatically updated in New BIOS first successful boot.

• 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(or CPLD): 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

• 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

• FW version Check: 

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