IBM RS/6000 Update System or Service Processor Flash Service Aid, Display Firmware Device Node

Update System or Service Processor Flash Service Aid

Note: This service aid is only supported for Online Diagnostics

This service aid allows you to update the system or service processor

Additional

update

and

recovery instructions

may

be

provided;

also

you

nee

the fully qualified path and file name of

the

flash

update

image

file.

update

image

file

is

on

a

diskette,

you

need

the

AIX

DOS

utilities

pac

the

diskette. You

can dosdiruse

thecommand

to

find

out

the

name

of

the

update

image file. This

service

aiddosreaduses commandthe

to

put

the

file/varinto

the

file

system.

Refer

to

the

update

instructions,

or

to

the System Management Services “Con

page 4-4

or

“Display

Configuration”

on

page 4-25

or

Service

Processor

menus

page

3-7,

to determine the level of

the

system unit or service processo

this service aid to update the system or service

processor

flash

will n

current

contents

of

the

flash.

The

flash

image

file

will

be

/varcopiedfile insystthem. If

there

is

not

enough

space

in

/varthe file system for the flash

update

image

file,

an

error

is

this occurs, exit the service aid, increase/var filethesystemsize andof

theretry

the

service aid. After the file is copied,

a warning screen will ask for co

continue the flash update. Continuing the flash update

will

eventually

cause

system

to

reboot

and

return

to

the

AIX

login prompt. After the system

un

the file/var/update_flash_image

can

be

removed to conserve space/var filein the

system.

Display Firmware Device Node

Note: Runs on CHRP systems units only.

This task displays the firmware device node information that appears on CH forms. The format of the output data will not necessarily be the same b ferent levels of AIX. It is intended to be used to gather more informa individual or particular devices on the system.

Display Resource Attributes

This task will display the Customized Device Attributes associated with a resource. This task is similar to lsattrrunning-Ethe-l resource command.

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