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458 Logical Partitions on System i5

The next screen shown is the iSeries Recommended Fixes - Server Firmware: Update Policy

Set to Operating System Web page (Figure 14-47)

Figure 14-47 i5 recommended fixes Web site MHxxxxx- in-band

There are numerous ways of obtaining the i5 firmware. Normally the firmware is ordered by

using a marker PTF MHxxxxx. This marker PTF may have several co-requisite PTFs which

make up the firmware package.

򐂰 Order a firmware MHxxxxx 1 marker PTF electronically or on CD by using the

SNDPTFORD i5/OS command or Fix Central. For example, the SF225_096 firmware can

be ordered by using requesting PTF MH00248.

򐂰 Order the firmware by clicking the Go link 2 and ordering through the Internet. You must

have a registered IBM ID to order the HMC fixes through the Internet.

򐂰 MHxxxxx PTFs are also contained in both Cumulative PTF packages and the HIPER

Group package. You should check which firmware PTFs are included in these packages

before installing.

Installing i5 in-band firmware updates

In this section we show how to update the i5 firmware through an i5/OS service partition using

the MHxxxxx marker PTFs. After you have received the MHxxxxx PTFs they should be

loaded and applied using the standard i5/OS PTF procedure. Our example shows how to

update the managed system firmware from SF220_075 to SF225_096 using the marker PTF

MH00248. The system used in this exercise is running on the b-side for i5/OS and the t-side

for the server firmware - recommend normal system operations. Our example is based on

firmware levels available at the time of writing this redbook and may change with future

releases.

Important: You must have your firmware update policy set to operating system AND have

one of your i5/OS partitions set to be the service partition to be able to update the

managed systems firmware through the in-band method.