How to determine the installed version of Volume System Products Hardware Platform ALOM (Advanced Lights Out Management) firmware

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Update Date:	2010-09-13
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Solution 1009415.1 : How to determine the installed version of Volume System Products Hardware Platform ALOM (Advanced Lights Out Management) firmware

Applies to:

Sun Fire V240 Server
Sun Fire V250 Server
Sun Fire V440 Server
Sun Fire V445 Server - Version: Not Applicable and later [Release: NA and later]
Sun Fire V215 Server - Version: Not Applicable and later [Release: NA and later]
All Platforms

Goal

Description

This Technical Instruction will assist the reader in how to determine the version of ALOM firmware installed on their system, and from where to download the latest officially supported version.

The Sun[TM] Volume System Products (VSP) business unit and the Sun[TM] Customer
Support VSP Product Technical Support group, recommend that the ALOM of all VSP hardware platforms with the ALOM feature, to be at the latest officially supported release, which is available from the external Sun software download web site (detailed below).

Note: ALOM can also be referred to as the:
"system controller", "system management controller","remote management controller”.

Solution

Steps to Follow

To obtain the current ALOM version installed on your system execute either of the the following commands:

From Solaris:

# /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/scadm version -v

From within ALOM:

sc> showsc

The latest/current version of ALOM is always available from the external Sun software download web site.

You can reach that web site, starting from the following link:
http://www.sun.com/servers/alom.html

This gives an overview of the latest/current version of ALOM, as well as further links to Download the software, and for related Documentation.

Note: Recent ALOM software now offers 2 options to download. Please ensure that you download the CORRECT ALOM software for the system you are wanting to update.

Choose the appropriate package for the system type:

ALOM 1.6.10 Firmware for Sun Fire V215, V245 and V445
ALOM_1.6.10_fw_hw8.tar.gz 20.36 MB

ALOM 1.6.10 Firmware for Sun Fire V125, V210, V240, V250, V440, and Netra 210, 240 and 440
ALOM_1.6.10_fw_hw0.tar.gz 20.11 MB

Additional Information:

Here are some example outputs when trying to determine your current version of ALOM. These examples use the commands listed previously:

From Solaris:


# /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/scadm version -v

SC Version v1.6
SC Bootmon Version:  v1.6.3
SC Bootmon checksum: B420A0FC

SC Firmware Version:  v1.6.3
SC Build Release: 01

SC firmware checksum: 9C0A2AFC

SC firmware built: Dec 22 2006, 15:15:30

SC System Memory Size: 8MB

SC NVRAM Version = f

SC hardware type: 1

From ALOM:

sc> showsc
Advanced Lights Out Manager v1.6.3

parameter                value
---------                -----
if_network               true
if_modem                 false
if_connection            telnet
if_emailalerts           false
sys_autorestart          xir
sys_bootrestart          none
sys_bootfailrecovery     none
sys_maxbootfail          3
sys_xirtimeout           900
sys_boottimeout          120
sys_wdttimeout           60
netsc_tpelinktest        true
netsc_dhcp               false
netsc_ipaddr             xx.xx.xx.xx
netsc_ipnetmask          xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
netsc_ipgateway          xx.xx.xx.xx
mgt_mailhost
mgt_mailalert
sc_customerinfo
sc_escapechars           #.
sc_powerondelay          false
sc_powerstatememory      false
sc_clipasswdecho         true
sc_cliprompt             sc
sc_clitimeout            0
sc_clieventlevel         2
sc_backupuserdata        true
sys_eventlevel           2
ser_baudrate             9600
ser_parity               none
ser_stopbits             1
ser_data                 8
netsc_enetaddr           00:03:00:00:00:44
sys_hostname             v440
sys_enetaddr             00:03:00:00:00:3b

ALOM, firmware, version
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Change History
Date: 2005-04-12
User Name: 25440
Action: Created

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