Q-Logic 8100 SERIES manual Management Tool Installation, Using QLogic Bios and Uefi Utilities

4–Installation in a Linux Environment Management Tool Installation

Using QLogic BIOS and UEFI Utilities

You can update firmware without a first installing an operating system on the server. Such firmware upgrades are considered offline upgrades.

To update firmware on BIOS servers:

1.Boot the server into DOS using either a DOS-bootable 3.5-inch disk or a USB memory stick containing the extracted multi-boot image.

2.Run the script update.bat.

3.Verify the firmware installation as described in “Determining the Installed Firmware Version” on page 4-22.

To update firmware on UEFI servers:

1.Boot the server into the UEFI shell using an in-built shell or a third-party UEFI shell from a USB memory stick containing the adapter multi-boot image.

2.Run the script update.nsh.

3.Verify the firmware installation as described in “Determining the Installed Firmware Version” on page 4-22.

For information about using QLogic offline utilities, refer to Section 9.

Management Tool Installation

QLogic 8100 Series Adapters can be managed with QLogic utilities or with Linux utilities. The QLogic utilities are:

QConvergeConsole web management GUI, which is used to configure and manage QLogic Fibre Channel adapters, Intelligent Ethernet Adapters, and Converged Network Adapters within storage area networks (SANs).

QConvergeConsole CLI, which is used to configure and manage QLogic Fibre Channel adapters, Intelligent Ethernet Adapters, and Converged Network Adapters within SANs. The QConvergeConsole CLI also includes the networking (NIC) commands, previously supported in a separate networking CLI utility.

Linux utilities—A set of scripts that perform FCoE-related administrator tasks, including rescanning for LUNs and collecting support information. The Linux utilities are:

ethtool—A utility that displays and configures the QLogic adapter networking function. For more information about this utility, refer to the ethtool manual pages.

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