Linux Deployment Tools

Modified on Wed, 9 Oct at 2:17 PM

This article applies to the following products:
    RPL
    RPL-R
    SPR-M
    SPR-X
    3100-SM+
    3100-SX+

Blackcore provide a variety of tools to help clients deploy and maintain our systems. If the functionality you need isn't provided please contact support with a feature request - we will do our best to accommodate new features.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

IPMI Firmware Update
BIOS User Profiles
BIOS firmware
AMISCE
Redfish

IPMI Firmware Update

To update IPMI firmware via Linux, you can use the YafuFlash tool, with the following syntax:

./Yafuflash -nw -ip <ip> -U <username> -P <password> <path-to-image-file>

Download: Latest IPMI firmware

BIOS User Profiles

You can use "BMCBIOSUserProfile" script to backup/restore BIOS user profiles.

To backup a profile:

./BMCBIOSUserProfile  -a backup -i <bmc_ip> -u <username> -p <password> -o <output-filename>

To load a profile:

./BMCBIOSUserProfile  -a restore -i <bmc_ip> -u <username> -p <password> -o <output-filename>

For full usage details please see guide here.

BIOS firmware

You can use "afulnx_64" tool to flash the BIOS firmware from linux:

./afulnx_64 <bios file> /B /P /K /N

Download: Latest BIOS firmware

AMISCE

The AMISCE tool is an advanced tool which can dump all NVRAM settings and also load changes back to the BIOS.

A user guide is included with the download.

A basic command to extract NVRAM variables to a file can be found below:

SCELNX_64 /o /s "<path to save file>" /v /d /hb

A basic command to load NVRAM variables to a file can be found below:

SCELNX_64 /i /s "<path to load>" /q /d /hb

Redfish

Many Redfish commands are supported.

Redfish can be accessed as normal via:

https://<IPMI IP>/redfish/v1

Documentation can be downloaded here.