Performing the HP ILO 4 Firmware upgrade via command line

Performing the HP ILO 4 Firmware upgrade via command line

The most popular way to update HP ILO firmware is using the web-interface, but in our case we are going to use the command line. ILO can be updated either directly using bin file or you can use rpm/CPxxxx.scexe file to update the ILO firmware.

The server we are using is HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server with ILO 4 with current firmware 1.13.

I have already downloaded the firmware for ILO 4 (CP032487.scexe).

Copy the downloaded firmware from your desktop to the server

Server Name : myhpserver

ILO Name: myhpserver-ilo

Current ILO version : 1.13

Latest ILO version : 2.55

[root@Jumphost]$ssh administrator@myhpserver-ilo

Warning: Permanently added 'myhpserver-ilo,1xx.2xx.1xx.xx1' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.

administrator@myhpserver-ilo's password:

User:administrator logged-in to myhpserver(1xx.2xx.1xx.xx1)

iLO Advanced 1.13 at Aug 2012

Server Name: xxxxxx-369B28G

Server Power: On

</>hpiLO->

</>hpiLO->

As soon as you login into server you will see the version of ILO, the current version of ILO is shown 1.13 Either bin/rpm/CPxxxx.scexe file can be used to udpate the ILO.

If you are using the bin file you are directly load file on ILO and then reset the ILO.

CASE 1: Below mentioned steps can be referred in case of bin file. 

Place the file on your FTP server under /images/fw and load firmware directly on ILO

</>hpiLO->load /map1/firmware1 -source http://192.168.1.1/images/fw/iLO4_100.bin

Once you have loaded the firmware you need to reset the ILO.

</>hpiLO-> cd /map1

</map1>hpiLO-> reset

CASE 2: Below mentioned steps can be used in case if you have rpm/CPxxxx.scexe file
Copy the rpm/CPxxxx.scexe file to myhepserver.

Here I have already copied file to myhpserver, the server whose ILO needs to be updated.

In case if you are using rpm, then install the rpm

root@myhpserver#rpm -ivh          hp-firmware-ilo4-2.55-1.1.i386.rpm

After installation of rpm list the CPxxxx.scexe file using #rpm -ql command

root@myhpserver#rpm -ql hp-firmware-ilo4-2.44-1.1.i386

root@myhpserver#./CP032487.scexe

If you have directly downloaded the CPxxxx.scexe file, then make sure you change the permission of the CPxxxx.scexe file to 7555 and then you run CPxxxx.scexe

Once you have ran the CPxxxx.scexe file then login into ILO  reset the ILO.

</>hpiLO-> cd /map1

</map1>hpiLO-> reset

As soon you can login into the ILO after ILO reset you you can see the new version of ILO 4

[root@Jumphost]$ssh administrator@myhpserver-ilo

Warning: Permanently added 'myhpserver-ilo,1xx.2xx.1xx.xx1' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.

administrator@myhpserver-ilo's password:

User:administrator logged-in to myhpserver(1xx.2xx.1xx.xx1)

iLO Advanced 2.55  at  Aug 16 2017

Server Name: xxxxxx-3xxxx8G

Server Power: On

Here the ILO 4 is updated to 2.55 from 1.13