How to update FWA-5070 firmware through MGMT ports (IOL)

Purpose

To guide users update firmware on FWA-5070 in the field with ipmitool 

Target Audience

To users who use FWA-5070 series products and need to upgrade firmware to latest version

Method

With utility called ipmitool and Utilize HPM to upgrade F/W with following commands

Upgrading F/W with HPM via ipmitool is supported by the BMC. Two of the available IPMI interfaces are useful for HPM updates: "KCS" and ipmitool over lan (IOL) with RMCP+ protocol support. Compare to IOL, if updating firmware via KCS interface in local OS, that will take much longer time to complete the process especially updating BIOS firmware. So , if possible , upgrade firmware through ipmitool over lan is always recommended.

Minimum requirement

• ipmitool on local host (FWA-5070) and external machine
• FWA-5070 BMC ready (standby power was ON) 

Steps

(1) Find physical Ethernet  port to access BMC

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

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

(2) Perform F/W upgrade from an External machine which connects to MGMT ports 

Commands format will be followings 

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

 

Following Upgrade sequence is highly recommended if you need perform all of them

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 soft reboot  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 soft reboot* the system after the upgrade, then run the command again for backup BIOS. 

 * If BIOS got ME , MRC changed ,"AC" power cycle would be required to reload PCH code , Advantech    

   representative will inform you in advance according to PCN

# 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