Specifications

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Introduction to the update process
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rfw-update
• Utilityforupdatingmultipleremotemodulesbyinvokingrsys‐updateoneachmodule
• RunsonahostthatisNOTbeingupdated,suchasaCPMorLinuxserver
•Usersuppliesaconfigurationscriptthatspecifiesthefollowing“upgradecampaign:”
•Themodulestoupgrade,howtoaccessthem,andwhatfirmwaretoinstall
•Optionaloverrideofupgradeorderandwhichupgradesareprocessedinparallel
•Optionalcheckstoverifychassisnumber,slotnumber,activebankand/orswitch
bankspriortoupdate
•Canupdatebothsetsofbanksonallaccessiblemodulesviaasinglecommandinvo cation
•Verifiestheupdatedfirmwarematchesthefileversionsaftereachactivation
• SuppliedasPerlsource,allowingeasylocalenhancement
Figure 1showstherfw‐updateandrsys‐updateprocessflow.
Figure 1. The rfw-update and rsys-update process flow
rsys-update
Single module upgrade tool
run on the target module
rfw-update
System software upgrade framework
run from an external host
reflash
Local LMP
software
upgrade tool
rsys-update
run on the
target module
rsys-update
run on the
target module
rsys-ipmitool
IPMC
subsystem
upgrade tool
Configuration file
(conf.rfw)
Linux host
Other
local basic
update utility
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