HP-UX 11i Version 1 Installation and Update Guide, September 2003

Install/Update System Requirements
Firmware Requirements
Chapter 3 59
Checking Server Firmware Version
There are two methods to check firmware version on HP servers:
OnlineDiagnostics or the boot display (see page 60). Use
OnlineDiagnostics if you do not want to reboot your system.
Using OnlineDiagnostics: If the OnlineDiagnostics are not already
on your system, you can find them on the HP-UX 11i v1 Support Plus
CD, or on your OE media (CD or DVD).
Step 1. As root, run the Support Tools Manager (STM) utility:
/usr/sbin/cstm
Step 2. Use the map command to find the device number (Dev Num) for the
processors on your system; search for items with the product description
CPU:
cstm>map
systemA.hp.com
Dev
Num Path Product
=== ==================== =========================
1 system system ()
...
34 160 CPU (5c4)
35 166 CPU (5c4)
Select any one of the processors (CPU) to use in the next step.
Step 3. Use the CPU device number as input to the sel dev command to request
information on that processor. For example:
cstm>sel dev 34; info
-- Updating Map --
Updating Map...
Step 4. Use the information log command (il) to find the firmware version
number:
cstm>il
-- Converting a (5060) byte raw log file to text. --
... (output lines are omitted)