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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