Dell 2950 / PERC5 FW Upgrade

[Stephen Dowdy]

Alexander Dupuy wrote, On 01/21/2009 12:25 PM:
> Apropos of firmware upgrades, is there any way to get the revisions of 
> all the various firmware for PE 1950/2950 using command-line tools while 
> running under Linux?
> 
> I know that I can get the BIOS revision from `syscfg --biosver` and the 
> BMC firmware revision with `ipmitool -I open mc info | grep 
> Firmware.Revision` and for the PERC 5/i & 6/i RAID controllers, I can 
> get firmware revision with `MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -a0 | grep Build` so I 
> can get the most critical firmware revisions.
> 
> I haven't seen any obvious way to get the SAS backplane firmware, or SAS 
> 5/i embedded SAS controller firmware revisions.  Is any of that logged 
> in /var/log/messages by the corresponding drivers, or available in other 
> ways?  This is under RHEL 5, if that matters at all.
> 
> @alex

Alex,

Of course the standard answers is OMSA, but i don't use it because
it's a bit large for my liking.

FWIW, attached is a script (incomplete) i use to obtain such information.
It requires 'dmidecode, ipmitool, ddcprobe (detect monitor info)'.
(some of it is trial/error w/ dmidecode)

# /opt/sbin/ral-superinv
Hostname:        [rtdf-c2]
Manufacturer:    [Dell Inc.]
Model:           [PowerEdge 2950]
Serial Number:   [5HCTWR1]
BIOS Version:    [2.4.3]
BMC Version:     [2.28]
PERC5E Version:  [1.03, 1.03, 1.03, 1.03, 1.03, 1.03, 1.03, 1.03]
SASBP Version:   [1.05]
MD1000 Version:  [A.04, A.04, A.04, A.04, A.04]

I haven't integrated the Serial Number detection code for the MD1000
(and PV220) which use the following sg3utils call:

# sg_ses -p 0x4 /dev/sg3 | grep '^ 20[[:space:]]\+' | cut -b68-74
4N5DWU1

--stephen
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Stephen Dowdy  -  Systems Administrator  -  NCAR/RAL
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