How to upgrade FW via IPMITool on MIC-5604

Purpose

To guide customer upgrade MIC-5604 firmware through KCS or IOL.

MIC-5604 Firmware could be upgraded in the following ways through the HPM mechanism:

• From the Host: Over KCS 
• Over LAN

Following demonstration will utilize KCS interface as an example.

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.

• BMC bootloader:

# ipmitool hpm upgrade bootloader.img activate

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

# ipmitool hpm upgrade bmc.img activate

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

# ipmitool hpm upgrade fpga.img activate

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

# ipmitool hpm upgrade bios.img activate

• NVRAM:

# ipmitool hpm upgrade NVRAM.img activate

• FW version Check: 

# ipmitool hpm check