Upgrading Firmware On Management Processors - HP AB500A - Integrated Lights-Out Advanced User Manual

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Upgrading firmware on management processors

The Upgrade Firmware screen enables you to update the management processors to the firmware version
that supports directories. This screen also enables you to designate the location of the firmware image for
each management processor by either entering the path or clicking Browse.
IMPORTANT:
be accessible from the system that is running the migration utility. These binary images can be
downloaded from the HP website (http://www.hp.com/servers/lights-out).
Management processor
RILOE
RILOE II
iLO
iLO 2
The upgrade process might take a long time, depending on the number of management processors
selected. The firmware upgrade of a single management processor can take as long as five minutes to
complete. If an upgrade fails, a message appears in the Results column and HPQLOMIG continues to
upgrade the other discovered management processors.
IMPORTANT:
environment before running the utility on a production network. An incomplete transfer of the
firmware image to a management processor could result in having to locally reprogram the
management processor using a floppy diskette.
To upgrade the firmware on your management processors:
Select the management processors to be upgraded.
1.
For each discovered management processor type, enter the correct pathname to the firmware image
2.
or browse to the image.
Click Upgrade Firmware. The selected management processors are upgraded. Although this utility
3.
enables you to upgrade hundreds of management processors, only 25 management processors are
upgraded simultaneously. Network activity is considerable during this process.
Binary images of the firmware for the management processors are required to
Minimum firmware version
2.50
1.10
1.40
1.00
HP recommends testing the upgrade process and verifying the results in a test
HPQLOMIG directory migration utility 176