Upgrade iLO firmware via SSH

AS you may know, you can connect to OA (HP Onboard Administrator) or iLO via SSH.

This is a good solution to upgrade iLO firmware without logging on to OA or iLO. So just you needs to access to OA or iLO and you must have administrator role on the consoles. Download proper iLO images from HP site for each of iLO version and put it on a web server, then open a SSH console and run the following commands:

First iLO:

cd map1/firmware1
load -source http://webserver/ilox_x.bin

After running the commands you have to wait for some minutes and iLO will reset.

You may see the below results:

status=1
status_tag=COMMAND SPAWNED
Attempting to load iLOX firmware image.

status=0
status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED
Resetting iLO.

I got no error when I was upgrading iLO via iLO SSH console but if you face with any error, share it with me.

Now OA:

update ilo <all/device bay number> http://webserver/ilox_x.bin

If you want to upgrade all iLO firmwares in OA, you should use ALL otherwise you should use device bay number.

I got some errors during iLO upgrade via OA SSH console:


An error occurred while executing the script on iLO. Please review the RIBCL results.<!-- Transfering image: 0% complete -->

About this error, I have found nothing and I just restart upgrade process and use device bay number.

An error occurred while executing the script on iLO. Please review the RIBCL results.

About this, same as the previous error.

But if you face with this error:

The file was not proper iLO image for ....

You upload wrong image file and need to check.

The solution is a good solution when you need to upgrade more than one iLO at the same time.

Hope this post help you to save your time.

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