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fwupdate Tool Command Syntax and Conventions
CLI Tools Device-Naming Convention
The fwupdate tool is a utility that enables you to query, update, and validate the firmware of storage devices such as HBA, expanders, and disks on Sun x64 Enterprise servers. For x86 systems, fwupdate is a component of Sun Server CLI Tools (CLI Tools), which provides command-line interface tools that configure Sun servers. For Sun SPARC systems, currently only fwupdate tool is supported.
Solaris SUNWssm fwupdate consists of the following packages:
Core libraries (Prerequisite packages to be installed first)
SUNWssm-storage-libs
SUNWssm-arclibs
SUNWssm-lsilibs
SSM fwupdate CLI Tool
SUNWssm-fwupdate
You can download the Solaris SUNW-ssm packages with a single tar file named sparc_ssm.tar.gz.
See How to Install fwupdate for instructions on downloading and installing the SUNW-ssm packages.