Manual Mode update Subcommand - Oracle® Server CLI Tools User's Guide

Manual Mode `update` Subcommand

The manual mode update command enables you to update a single device using a firmware image file. Only one firmware image and one component can be specified per execution of this command.

The manual mode update subcommand supports the following targets:

sp-bios-firmware
disk-firmware
expander-firmware
expander-manufacturing_image
fc-controller-firmware
ib-controller-firmware
sas-bridge-firmware
sas-controller-firmware
sas-controller-bios
sas-controller-fcode
sas-controller-efi

Note ‐ Emulex Fiber Channel cards can not be updated using fwupdate on a server running Oracle Solaris 11 or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.

Note ‐ You cannot update the disks on the Flash Accelerator F40 PCIe Card directly. The Flash Accelerator F40 PCIe Card SSDs are updated when the general firmware package is applied to the PCIe card. You encounter an error if you try to apply an update directly to the Flash Accelerator F40 PCIe Card SSD devices.

Options for the update subcommand in manual mode are listed in the following table.

Short Option	Long Option	Descriptions
`–n`	`–-device_name`	Name of the device to update. The name is the mapped name, which you can retrieve by using the `fwupdate list` command. This option is mandatory for single component mode, but optional when used with an XML file.
`–f`	`–-filename`=`filename`	A mandatory option, with a mandatory parameter, designating the name of the firmware image file that is to be applied.
`–r`	`–-reset`	Reset the component after the update has finished.
`–d`	`–-dry-run`	Optional. Checks all input, executes an available dry-run `check` command on the firmware and component, but makes no permanent changes.
`–o`	`–-output`=`filename`	Log all actions in the specified file.
`–q`	`–-quiet`	Suppresses informational message output and only returns error codes.

The following is a manual mode update command example:

fwupdate update disk-firmware -n c1d1 -f diskfirmware.file

Note ‐ Only one device can be specified per fwupdate execution. Every device that needs to be updated must be run as a separate fwupdate command.

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