Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 454)

Offline and Online Adapter Management Utilities Version 10.2 User Manual P010071-01A Rev. A
1. Introduction
Offline Adapter Management Utility
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1. Introduction
This document explains how to use the adapter management utility kits for Linux and
Windows pre-boot environments (offline management), as well as, the FreeBSD
operating system.
You can also use adapter management utility kits for production environments referred
to as the online adapter management utility.
Offline Adapter Management Utility
The Offline Adapter Management Utility kits allow you to configure Emulex
®
adapters
before you install or boot a server operating system. You can also use a Standalone
Offline Adapter Management utility, which allows you to update firmware on Emulex
adapters without needing to install any tools. See “Running the Standalone Adapter
Management Utility” on page 485 for more information.
The offline utility includes:

winlpcfg/Elxflash for Windows

linlpcfg/Elxflash for Linux

linlpcfg/Elxflash for FreeBSD
The winlpcfg and the linlpcfg are management utilities for adapter configuration and
diagnostics for Windows and Linux respectively. linlpcfg is also used for the FreeBSD
operating system. The lpcfg utility can also download firmware, but you must
manually select which adapters to update.
Elxflash is a firmware download utility. When the /auto switch is used, Elxflash
automatically chooses the "best" image to download. When the fwmatrix.txt file is used,
you choose which images to apply to adapters.
Additionally, Linux has an offline utility for network interface card (NIC) adapters
only. This utility uses operating system-provided features and utilities to discover
Universal Converged Network Adapters (UCNAs) and download firmware. This
utility relies on the inbox driver for supported distributions and only supports UCNAs.
See “Offline Adapter Management Utility - NIC Only” on page 459 for more
information.
Note: The Offline Adapter Management utility, except for the standalone version,
must be installed on your system before you can run it. While the standalone
utility does not need to be installed before it is run, you must go to the directory
into which the standalone utility was extracted and run it from the command
prompt.
See “Offline Adapter Management Utility Command Line Interface” on page 484 for
further information on the offline utility.