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IPMI, Event logs, IPMI Watchdog, Partition ID, MPEventGen Intel Itanium 9500 Series processors.

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packages in the bundle which must be updated, but is not expected to exceed 150 minutes under any conditions. Typical firmware updates will take less time to complete. IPMI During the process of an online complex firmware update, no IPMI requests can be serviced until the update completes. This means that partition configuration changes, including iCAP changes, will not be allowed. For reference purposes the following IPMI CLI commands are unavailable: • parcreate • pardefault • pardbmgr • parremove • parmodify • parstatus • cplxmodify • vparcreate • vparremove • vparmodify • vparboot • vparreset • vparstatus • icapmodify • icapstatus • plg9hlth • seedGlobalMca • perf-mode • MPEventGen (Intel Itanium 9500 Series processors). Event logs Forward Progress Logs and System Event Logs normally captured by the server management system will not be updated during the firmware update process. IPMI Watchdog During the online complex firmware update process, the IPMI watchdog timeout will be disabled. It will be re-enabled when the system wakes up. The OS will discover the watchdog timer has disappeared after the firmware update process has completed, and will recreate it by design. Partition ID The # getconf _CS_PARTITION_IDENT command (which returns HP-UX partition ID), is used for licensing. It is a concatenation of UUID + nPartition # + vPar #. UUID is continuously available from the SMBIOS table. The latter two (nPartition, vPar #s) are obtained using an IPMI call which may fail during the firmware update process. HP-UX caches this information after the very first call to getconf _CS_PARTITION_IDENT, so this command would only fail if it had never been run before the firmware update process began. 70 Complex Overview

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packages in the bundle which must be updated, but is not expected to exceed 150 minutes under
any conditions. Typical firmware updates will take less time to complete.
IPMI
During the process of an online complex firmware update, no IPMI requests can be serviced until
the update completes. This means that partition configuration changes, including iCAP changes,
will not be allowed. For reference purposes the following IPMI CLI commands are unavailable:
•
parcreate
•
pardefault
•
pardbmgr
•
parremove
•
parmodify
•
parstatus
•
cplxmodify
•
vparcreate
•
vparremove
•
vparmodify
•
vparboot
•
vparreset
•
vparstatus
•
icapmodify
•
icapstatus
•
plg9hlth
•
seedGlobalMca
•
perf-mode
•
MPEventGen (Intel Itanium 9500 Series processors).
Event logs
Forward Progress Logs and System Event Logs normally captured by the server management system
will not be updated during the firmware update process.
IPMI Watchdog
During the online complex firmware update process, the IPMI watchdog timeout will be disabled.
It will be re-enabled when the system wakes up. The OS will discover the watchdog timer has
disappeared after the firmware update process has completed, and will recreate it by design.
Partition ID
The
# getconf _CS_PARTITION_IDENT
command (which returns HP-UX partition ID), is used
for licensing. It is a concatenation of UUID + nPartition # + vPar #. UUID is continuously available
from the SMBIOS table. The latter two (nPartition, vPar #s) are obtained using an IPMI call which
may fail during the firmware update process. HP-UX caches this information after the very first call
to
getconf _CS_PARTITION_IDENT
, so this command would only fail if it had never been run
before the firmware update process began.
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Complex Overview