HP Lights-Out 100 Remote Management User Manual

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6.

Click Apply. The BMC is reset.

7.

Reconnect to the web browser. A typical flash can take several minutes.

Updating the firmware through the online flash utility

The Lights-Out 100 Online Flash Utility allows a user to update the BMC firmware through a
supported operating system without resetting the server. The online flash utilities may be
downloaded at

http://www.hp.com/

under the downloads section for each platform.

Supported operating systems include the following:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (i386, x86_64)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 (i386, x86_64)

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i386, x86_64)

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (i386, x86_64)

Windows Server 2008 (x86, x64) - All Editions

Windows Server 2008 R2 – All Editions

NOTE:

Windows Server 2003 is not supported.

To use the online flash component on a Windows operating system, perform the following steps:
1.

Copy the LO-100 online flash utility to a directory on the server file system.

2.

Double click the executable file.

3.

Click “Install.”

4.

Wait for the installation process to complete.

NOTE:

This may take up to 45 minutes on some servers. Do not shut down the server or

interrupt the flash process.

5.

Click “Finish.” No restart is necessary upon completion.

To use the online flash component on a Linux operating system, perform the following steps:
1.

Copy the LO-100 online flash utility to a directory on the server file system.

2.

Open a bash shell at the directory where the online flash component is located.

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