How to upgrade SKY-8101N firmware through IPMI

Description:

Upgrading F/W via ipmitool is supported by the BMC. The available IPMI interfaces for update 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 :

When multiple f/w need to be updated, please follow the sequence in order to avoid unexpected behavior after upgrade.

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

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

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

• BMC bootloader:

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

• FW version Check: After upgrade, run the command to confirm FW version.

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

PICMG HPM.1 Upgrade Agent 1.0.9:
-------Target Information-------
Device Id : 0xba
Device Revision : 0x81
Product Id : 0x8101
Manufacturer Id : 0x2839 (Advantech)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|ID | Name | Versions |
| | | Active | Backup | Deferred |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0|8101N BL | 0.11 00000000 | ---.-- -------- | ---.-- -------- |
| 1|8101N BMC | 1.02 00000000 | 1.02 00000000 | ---.-- -------- |
|* 2|8101N FPGA | 0.20 00000000 | 0.20 00000000 | ---.-- -------- |
|* 3|8101N BIOS | 2.16 00000000 | 2.16 00000000 | ---.-- -------- |
|* 4|8101N NVRAM | 6.00 00000000 | ---.-- -------- | ---.-- -------- |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
(*) Component requires Payload Cold Reset