1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, am a new comer to the AIX side. i had 3 specific questions. 1) what is firmware 2) how to locate the firmware running on a unix server 3) how to do firmware update(is it something i download from IBM site) thanks everybody for taking the time and plz reply. karthik (5 Replies)

2. Solaris

I have solaris X4500 with ILOM version 1.1.1. I want to update the firmware. I know that we need to use load -source tftp://tftpserver/image file But I do not understand what is the IP address of the tftp server that we need to type in there. Kindly, help me with this. Thank you (5 Replies)

3. Solaris

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... (4 Replies)

4. AIX

Hello I have a question I have several partitions P550 Aix 5.3 and I need to update the HBA firmware, in some partitions I have two HBA and in others I have one HBA only. My question is if I have to reboot my partitions after update the firmware level. and If I can do it online or I have... (2 Replies)

5. Solaris

how can we download the firmware form the host to the XSCF , My host is not configured with either FTP,HTTPS or proxy server. Someone told me we can do it with getflashimage but i did not find any info getflashimage man page to do it. Any help will be appreciated. (3 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hi, Can you pls. provide me detailed procedure on how to update system BIOS and ILOM Firmware for x4100 M2 servers. Thanks. :) (1 Reply)

7. Hardware

Hi Guys and Gals, does anyone know how to update the firmware on the drives in a storagetek 2540? Thanks in advance Rgrds Martin (0 Replies)

8. Solaris

Hello there! I am familiar with Linux, FreeBSD, but relatively new to Solaris. Because I wanted to play a little with servers and networks, I got a used SunFire v20z with AMD Opteron processors and installed OpenIndiana 151a8 on top of that. This is the first machine of this kind I have ever... (1 Reply)

9. AIX

A team member installed the wrong version of License Code on a Power 740 system used in our Development environment. The system will no longer boot. Does anyone have IBM documentation or experience to share on recovering a system that currently reports "Unsupported License Code version... (1 Reply)