Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 455)

Offline and Online Adapter Management Utilities Version 10.2 User Manual P010071-01A Rev. A
1. Introduction
Online Adapter Management Utility
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Online Adapter Management Utility
The Online Adapter Management Utility uses a command line interface allowing you
to build scripts for automated and unattended firmware and boot code download
solutions for Emulex LightPulse
®
Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs),
LightPulse
®
FC and Fibre Channel over Ethernet/network interface card (FCoE/NIC)
Converged Fabric Adapters (CFAs), and OneConnect TM UCNAs that are in production
systems. You can also download firmware and boot code on local and remote machines
simultaneously. The Standalone Adapter Management utility, which allows you to
update firmware on Emulex adapters without needing to install any tools, is also
available. See “Running the Standalone Adapter Management Utility” on page 485 for
more information.
The Online Adapter Management Utility uses auto-discovery (/auto) so you do not
need to maintain the fwmatrix.txt configuration file. When auto-discovery is invoked,
the utility automatically discovers local adapters and performs selected operations such
as: /ff (force firmware), /fb (force boot), /update, /downgrade, and /rewrite.
When using auto-discovery you must populate the firmware and boot subdirectories
with image files for specific adapter models. Auto-discovery requires the use of Emulex
defined firmware and boot code file names in their respective directories.
If you do not want to use auto-discovery, the Online Adapter Management Utility can
update the firmware or boot code of an adapter using the fwmatrix.txt configuration
file. When using the fwmatrix.txt file, you must update each supported adapter's type,
firmware, and boot code entries and place the corresponding firmware and boot code
images into their respective directories. The fwmatrix.txt file enables all operations that
are used with auto-discovery.
Note: Unlike the offline utility, you do not install the online utility; you extract it.
Once extracted, you must go to the directory into which the online utility was
extracted and run it from the command prompt.
Key Capabilities
Key capabilities include the following functionality that are available on all versions of
the utility unless otherwise indicated:
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Auto-discovers adapters and does not use the fwmatrix.txt configuration file.
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Downgrades firmware or boot code if the downgrade version is older than the
version that is currently installed on an adapter.
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Forces a boot code download on an adapter.
Note: /fb is not available in the ElxflashOfffline_NIC_Only kit.

Processes FC HBAs only.
Note: This functionality is not available in the ElxflashOfffline_NIC_Only
kit.
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Forces a firmware download on an adapter.