proliant firmware update

assuming a G7

warning // lessons learned

e.g. for 1.05 or 1.10 there is an upgrade path

    --> 1.28 --> 1.94

note 1.57 might also be a usable intermediary step

upgrade firmwares

boot with centos6 and choose “text-mode”

get a lease

mii-tool eth0
dhclient -v eth0

setup a root password, start SSH daemon and shutdown the system firewall

service iptables stop
service ip6tables stop
service sshd start
passwd

from workstation

host rescue-centos6
        hostkeyalgorithms +ssh-dss
        hostname 192.168.0.x
        user root

update remote known host key fingerprint

ssh rescue-centos6 hostname

send the firmwares to the rescue system as archives

scp firmwares-dl385.tar.gz rescue-centos6:
scp v1.94.tar.gz rescue-centos6:

then proceed from the node’s live-system

ssh rescue-centos6

ntpdate -u ru.pool.ntp.org
hwclock --utc --systohc

# (v1.28 or v1.57 first if you're really out-of-date)
tar xzf v1.94.tar.gz
cd v1.94/
rpm -ivh firmware-ilo3-1.94-1.1.i386.rpm
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/scexe-compat/CP046328.scexe
cd ../

tar xzf firmwares-dl385.tar.gz
cd firmwares-dl385/

cd power-mgmt/
./CP021012.scexe
(no reboot yet)
cd ../

cd smart-array/
rpm -ivh hp-firmware-smartarray-14ef73e580-6.64-2.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ql hp-firmware-smartarray-14ef73e580
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hp-scexe-compat/CP027071.scexe
(no reboot yet)
cd ../

cd system-rom/
rpm -ivh firmware-system-a18-2018.03.14-1.1.i386.rpm
rpm -ql firmware-system-a18
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/hp-scexe-compat/CP036025.scexe
cd ../

cd ../
poweroff

troubleshooting

Current firmware is 1.05 (Jun 01 2010 )
Firmware image is 0x802cc8(8400072) bytes
   99 percent of firmware sent.
Failed(2--4)!

ERROR: Unable to start flash. [ilo3_194.bin]