HP Insight Control for Linux 6.0 User Guide

8.2.6 Adding or removing firmware files from the firmware tar file
HP continuously releases new firmware for various devices, and these new releases are usually
included in the next revision of the Firmware Maintenance CD. However there might be times
when you will want to start using this new firmware before the next CD is released.
There also might be times when you do not want to update the firmware on a specific device,
and so you do not want that device’s firmware file to be included in the firmware tar file.
To make changes to the collection of firmware files that will be used for automatic firmware
updates, you will need to extract the contents of the firmware tar file, add and remove what
you want, and create a new tar file.
NOTE: This procedure requires 300 to 400 MB of temporary disk space.
The procedure is as follows:
1. Create a temporary directory for the contents of the existing tar file.
# mkdir /tmp/fw-temp
2. Extract the contents of the existing tar file:
# cd /tmp/fw-temp
# tar xf /opt/repository/firmware/firmware-files.tar
3. Add or remove the required firmware files.
Here are some examples; all these examples are performed from the temporary directory
for the firmware, /tmp/fw-temp:
# Copy latest firmware from /root
cp /root/CP009403.scexe .
# Download latest iLO firmware direct from hp.com
wget ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/CP009237.scexe
# Remove system BIOS so it won’t get updated
rm CP009139.scexe
NOTE: When downloading new firmware files or removing older files, note that HP Insight
Control for Linux uses only the files designated as Linux Online Flash Component;
all these files end with the .scexe extension.
Be sure you are manipulating the correct file types. The HP ProLiant Firmware Maintenance
CD has an index so you know exactly which firmware files are for which devices.
4. Re-create the firmware tar file:
# cd /tmp/fw-temp
# tar cf /opt/repository/firmware/firmware-files.tar .
5. Remove the temporary directory and its contents.
# rm –rf /tmp/fw-temp
8.2.7 Firmware update time out
Firmware update times out before completion
After Insight Control for Linux initiates a firmware update, it waits for the RAM disk to signal
that the firmware update has completed. If, for some reason (such as lost communication with
the RAM disk), Insight Control for Linux does not receive that notification, the firmware update
task eventually times out.
The default value is 900 seconds (15 minutes), which should be sufficient for most situations,
However, you can modify this value to account for special situations when fifteen minutes is not
enough time to complete the firmware update.
102 Using HP Insight Control for Linux to update HP ProLiant firmware