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Operating Systems AIX HMC Upgrade Question Post 302739165 by acascianelli on Monday 3rd of December 2012 04:00:19 PM
Old 12-03-2012
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Originally Posted by kah00na
Managed systems have two sides to the firmware - temporary and permanent. I don't know if there is a way to manually move the temporary over to the permanent side, but I do know that moving it is the first step of any firmware upgrade. When I upgrade my HMC, I make sure that my that the side of the firmware my managed systems were booted from (usually the temporary side) are at firmware releases supported by the HMC code I'm going to install. If it all is compatible, then I do the upgrade. If your levels are all good with each other, you should be able to upgrade.
The firmware on the system is compatible. The problem is that because I did not re-IPL the system after upgrading, the HMC is seeing that the new firmware version is deferred till a re-IPL. However, the activated firmware version is that of the version I upgraded to.

I'm trying to find out if I need to re-IPL my managed systems for them to compatible with newer versions of HMC or if simply being the current activated version is good enough.
 

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