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126 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview
7.1.3 Power Firmware Management tasks
You can manage firmware on Power Systems using the Resources tab on the
Welcome page of the SDMC GUI.
Power Firmware Management: Definitions
Before start out discussion of Power Firmware Management tasks, we need to
define some terminology:
T/P-side An FSP has two flash sides: Temporary (T) and
permanent (P). They are used in conjunction to
perform a backup of a firmware level deemed to be
stable and accepted by the customer. During a
normal installation, the user writes the new firmware
to the T side of the FSP. If this new version is not
acceptable, the user can then revert back to the
saved firmware that exists on the P side.
Accept Copies the current T side of the FSP to the P side so
that it acts as the new backup version of firmware.
Reject Copies the saved P side of the FSP to the T side so
that it acts as a restore operation. This function is
available when you perform an IPL of the FSP on the
P side.
Synchronize For systems with redundant FSPs, copies the
contents of the active FSP to the non-active
redundant component.
Remove and Activate This operation is similar to the Reject operation, but
is available when the FSP is running on the T side.
The difference is that for a Remove and Activate, the
new code level being restored is also activated,
because the user is currently running on the FSP
side that is being restored. For a Reject, the user is
not running on the FSP side that is being restored,
so no activation needs to be done.
Disruptive Activate Performs an IPL (system reboot) and activation of
the code on the FSP side that is set as the next IPL
side. This operation also activates any updates that
were deferred from a previous installation.
Set Next IPL Side Toggles which FSP side (T or P) becomes active on
the next IPL.