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Chapter 14. Firmware maintenance 443
The following steps show how to start the ASMI through Websm:
1. Sign on to the HMC using the Websm client
1. In the HMC Navigation area, click Service Applications.
2. Then click Service Focal Point.
3. In the right-hand window click Service Utilities.
4. The Service Utilities panel is displayed (Figure 14-27). You must first select the Managed
System you wish to connect to by clicking and highlighting that system 1. Then click on the
Selected tab on the drop down menu tool bar and click Launch ASM Menu 2.
Figure 14-27 Service Utilities panel
5. The Launch ASM Interface screen is then shown (Figure 14-28).
Figure 14-28 Launch ASM Interface screen
Click OK to launch the ASM browser interface.
6. On the ASMI Welcome pane, specify your user ID and password, and click Log In. The
default user ID is admin and password is also admin.
Important: If you change the update policy to allow firmware updates from the operating
system, firmware updates from the HMC are not allowed unless the system is powered off.
When the managed system is powered off, firmware updates can be performed from the
HMC regardless of the setting of this policy.
However, care should be taken when updating firmware from both the HMC and the
operating system. If you change the update policy to operating system and an i5 service
partition has a lower level of firmware installed than the firmware updated from the HMC,
then the firmware will be overlaid with the older firmware from the i5/OS load source.
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