Afterwards you have to clear out the SDR cache of FreeIPMI as ipmi-sensors wouldn’t work otherwise. The next step consists of connecting via telnet to the box and issue two commands: cd map1/firmware1 followed by load -source //$serverip/$filename -oemhpfiletype csr … the file is downloaded via TFTP and the BMC rebooted. So I just added the IPMI firmware image, and moved on to the next step. which luckily I already had laying around from when I updated the firmware of the APC powerstrips discussed in one of the posts linked above. *I wonder, why does HP provide you with two copies of the compressed firmware image, for a grand total of 3MB, instead of only one of the uncompressed one (2MB)? I suppose the origin of the compressed image is to be found in the 1.44MB floppy disk size limitation, but nowadays you don’t use floppies… oh well.*Īfter you have the uncompressed image, you have to set up a TFTP server. It’s described in HP’s advanced iLO usage guide, and seems to work fine, but it also requires another step to be taken in Windows (or FreeDOS): you have to use the ROMPAQ.EXE utility to decompress the compressed firmware image. When you extract it, you’re presented with instructions on how to build an USB key which you can then use to update the firmware via FreeDOS…Īfter searching around a bit more I found out that there is a way to update this over the network. The firmware download, even when selecting the RedHat Enterprise Linux option is a Windows EXE file (not an auto-extract archive, which you can extract from Linux, but their usual full-fledged setup software to extract in C:SWSetup). Neither support firmware update via HTML. So I decided to look into updating the firmware of the DL140 G3 and see if it would help us at all the original firmware on IPMI device was 2.10 while the latest one available is 2.21.
Now some of the first probes that Munin forwarded to Icinga we knew already about (in another post I wrote of how the CMOS battery ran out on two of the servers), but one was something that bothered me before as well: one of the boxes only has one CPU on board and it reports a value of 0 instead of N/A. As I wrote yesterday I’ve been doing system and network administration work here in LA as well, and I’ve set up Munin and Icinga to warn me when something required maintenance.
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