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Operating Systems Solaris firmware update on t5120 Post 302298817 by upengan78 on Wednesday 18th of March 2009 05:11:01 PM

03-18-2009

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firmware update on t5120

Hi,

I am using 3 t5120 sparc systems, OS solaris 10.

I am confused by update manager behaviour and sun support.

Sun support guy, tells me install patch : 136932-09 (#136932-09: Hardware/PROM: SPARC Enterprise T5120 & T5220 Sun System Firmware with LDOMS support)

When I checked Install.info, it clearly says, once done with prerequisits then use update manager (1.0.10 which systems have) to locate firmware patch. but the update manager in my case does not show any such firmware update available.

What is confusing is step 3 in Install.info

Quote:

1. On the host (Solaris domain), maximize the Sun Update Manager
Window.

2. Select the "Available Updates" tab located in the upper right hand
portion
of the window
3. Review the "Synopsis" column to find entry containing "...Sun
Firmware System Firmware Update". This entry will be specific to your
particular system type.
NOTE: If there is NO entry containing the string above and all
of the prerequisites listed above are met, the firmware stack version
currently loaded on your Service Processor is up to date and does not
require updating.

The NOTE clearly says that if you do not see update available then system does not need one.

Now support guy says, he does not know anything about update manager at all Smilie

and I should download patch from sun.com or he can email me.

The question here is, is it wise to do this firmware update when update manager does not show it (even though 1.0.10 is supposed to show firmware updates on t5120) Check: What's Been Fixed in Update Manager 1.0.10? - Patch Management - wikis.sun.com)

Hope you understand my question,

I would like to know from people who have done this firmware update. How did they do it and was it success?

OK, Reason why I am doing it is, @ sc> console -f hangs , resetsc -y gives this error:

Quote:

sc> resetsc -y
Performing hard reset on the SC failed
resetsc: No such inventory

Support guy tells me install the above patch but does not seem knowledgeble enough to support his suggestion.

Thanks

upengan78

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update-manager

UPDATE-MANAGER(8)                                             System Manager's Manual                                            UPDATE-MANAGER(8)

NAME

       update-manager - graphical management of software packages updates

SYNOPSIS

       update-manager [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Update-manager  is a frontend for the apt package management system. It allows you to perform some actions of the command line tool apt-get
       in a graphical environment.

       Update-manager is especially designed for upgrading your system, or migrating your system towards a more recent version.

OPTIONS

       For a daily use, you may launch update-manager with no options so that your system is just upgraded.

       For migration purposes, update-manager accepts some options:

       -h, --help
              Show a similar help message

       -c, --check-dist-upgrades
              Check if a new distribution release is available

       -d, --devel-release
              Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is possible

       -p, --proposed
              Try to run a dist-upgrade

       --dist-upgrade
              Try to run a dist-upgrade

ACTIONS PERFORMED DURING AN UPGRADE TO A NEW VERSION

       * eventually reinstall the package ubuntu-desktop

       * switch to an updated sources.list entries

       * adds the default user to new groups if needed

SEE ALSO

       Synaptic, sources.list, aptitude

AUTHORS

       update-manager was developed by Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> with various contributors (see AUTHORS file)

       This manual page was originally written by Bruno Mangin and Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  (C)  2006-2007 Canonical

       There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software under the terms of  the  GNU General  Public License.  For more information about
       these matters, see the files named COPYING.

                                                                  August 2, 2007                                                 UPDATE-MANAGER(8)