Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 479)

Offline and Online Adapter Management Utilities Version 10.2 User Manual P010071-01A Rev. A
3. Adapter Management Utility Command Line Interface
Silent (/s)
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where <description> is Success or Error, and <n> = 0 for completion with no errors or a
non-zero error code for any error.
Notes:
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FCoE, iSCSI, and NIC-only adapters require a system reboot to activate new
firmware.
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If the preview switch is also used, the Status =<description> field displays
“Preview.”
Silent (/s)
Usage:
/s
The silent switch prevents all output from being displayed.
Example usage:
./elxflash /f /auto /s
– Forces a firmware and boot code download using
auto-discovery and mutes all output to stdout.

The fwmatrix.txt file is ignored. The desired versions of firmware and boot code
must be placed in their respective directories.

If multiple versions of firmware and/or boot code are found for an adapter,
Elxflash uses the most recent versions when performing the firmware and boot
code downloads.
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No output is printed to stdout.
./elxflash /f /s
– Forces a firmware and boot code download using the
fwmatrix.txt file and mutes all output to stdout.

For each installed and supported adapter, a download of firmware and boot
code is forced using the versions specified in the fwmatrix.txt file.

No output is printed to stdout.
Discover UCNAs using SysFS (/sysfs)
Note: This switch requires that libsysfs is installed. If the libsysfs library is not found,
the /sysfs switch is not available.
Usage:
/sysfs + operational switch
/sysfs is an operational switch that discovers UCNA functions using the SysFS tool and
executes firmware downloads by using the ethtool or SysFS tool. The /sysfs switch is
used with any switch that displays adapter information, for example /q, or any
combination of switches that executes a download. The following switches can be used:

/f - force firmware and boot code
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/fb - force boot code
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/ff - force firmware
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/downgrade or /g