For firmware files, please contact support.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Saving Existing Configuration
• Updating IPMI Firmware
  • Via IPMI
  • Via Linux

Before updating firmware, it is recommended to save your existing configuration

Saving Existing Configuration

• From the IPMI webui, navigate to "Maintenance -> Backup Configuration"
• Tick "Check All" box
• Click "Download" button
• Your config file will be downloaded to your local machine. Please rename appropriately
  • The file format is "<filename>.bak"

Updating IPMI Firmware

Via IPMI

• From the IPMI webui, navigate to "Maintenance -> Firmware Update"
  
• Click "Choose File", and select the firmware file provided by the Blackcore support team
  • This will be in the format "<filename>.ima"
• Click "Start firmware update"
• You will see the following screen:
  Note the default mode will overwrite all existing settings

• To preserve existing configuration, please tick "Preserver all Configuration" checkbox, or adjust settings in "Maintenance -> Preserve Configuration" prior to flashing.
• Click "Proceed to Flash", the file will now be uploaded to the BMC
• Once uploaded, you will be given an version-compare overview
• Click "Flash Selected sections" and accept the message prompt, the firmware will now flash
• Once flashed, the IPMI will reset, this will make the interface inaccessible for a number of minutes
• Once the flash is completed, the webui will come back up and you will be able to log back in
  

Via Linux

• Download the IPMI firmware flash tool ("yafuflash") and IPMI firmware file ("<file>.ima") provided by Blackcore support to a folder on the host system

Note: you can use "wget" command on the links provided by Blackcore Support to download the files to your system. 
For example: 
wget <link provided> -O yafuflash 
wget <link provided> -O firmware.ima

• Execute the following command to flash the IPMI firmware

# Make the file executable 
chmod +x yafuflash 
# Update the Firmware 
sudo ./yafuflash -KCS -full -non-interactive -preserve-config firmware.ima 


Note: "-preserve-config" flag is not needed if you want to wipe all data 
Note: This process is slow and can take 10 minutes or more! Do not interrupt the flashing process under any circumstances.

• You will see the below output
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• Once flashing has completed, the BMC will reset, this can take a further 5 minutes.
• After the BMC has reset, you may need to reload the IPMI driver in Linux before you can run commands like "ipmitool"

# Reload IPMI driver 
sudo modprobe ipmi_si 
# Check IPMI version 
sudo ipmitool mc info 
# Check IPMI IP 
sudo ipmitool lan print 8

If config was not preserved, IPMI user and password will reset to defaults, this is:

Version 1.60.10 or higher:
    User: admin
    Pass: admin123

Version 1.60.1 or lower:
    User: admin
    Pass: admin

You will need to login once, and will be prompted to update the default password