From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 09:26:03 EST
my ce always says to warn him first, so he can have the cards on hand. inspires confidence, doesn't it? I trashed an h50 once doing a microcode update. not fun.
I was also told not to jump more than 4 microcode versions. if you're further behind than that, consider doing it in steps (which opens the risk window a bit, too).
Frankly, i've been too scared to do it again since i was up all night replacing the card on the h50.
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of Williamson, Alan
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:08 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Microcode / Firmware Upgrades on 9076-270 SP Node
All,
I need to upgrade the firmware on all of our SP nodes. ( 9076-270 wide nodes ), and I have a few questions. I've downloaded the code and instructions from the web but:-
1) Do you guys always do these upgrades yourselves or do you use IBM engineers?
2) Do you have spare service processor cards etc. incase of problems? I remember we once had a trashed F50 service processor card due to a firmware upgrade.
3) Are there any Gotchas I should be aware of? Or is it as straight forward as running the shutdown whilst pointing to the new firmware and then just waiting for the box to come back up?
Thanks In Advance,
Alan
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 22:17:20 EDT