Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 467)

Offline and Online Adapter Management Utilities Version 10.2 User Manual P010071-01A Rev. A
3. Adapter Management Utility Command Line Interface
Auto-Discovery (/auto)
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3. Adapter Management Utility Command Line
Interface
There are two supported modes for each Adapter Management Utility (Elxflash)
switch. The first mode relies on the fwmatrix.txt file. It is your responsibility to update
the firmware and boot code directories with the appropriate firmware and boot code
images.
Note: Ensure that there are no spaces in the in the fwmatrix.txt model name to avoid a
firmware update failure.
The second mode is auto-discovery. When the /auto switch is used with the following
switches, the Adapter Management Utility automatically discovers adapters and, using
the firmware and boot subdirectories, performs the specified operation on each
adapter.
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/f
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/ff
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/fb
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/downgrade
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/rewrite
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/update
Auto-Discovery (/auto)
Usage: /auto
The auto-discovery switch instructs the Adapter Management Utility to ignore the
fwmatrix.txt file, automatically discover local adapters, and perform specified
operations employing an additional switch using the firmware and boot directories.
The /auto switch must be used with an additional operational switch such as:

/f

/ff
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/fb

/downgrade

/rewrite

/update
Example usage:
./elxflash /auto /update – Updates the firmware and boot code using the firmware
and boot directories.
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The fwmatrix.txt file is ignored. You must place the desired versions of
firmware in the firmware directory.