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July 18th, 2023 06:00
How to check bmc firmware revision over ipmi in whole format
Hi,
I would like to check firmware revision of PowerEdge R740 over ipmitool. For the example I have iDRAC9 in version 6.10.30.00 and ipmitool mc info return "FirmwareRevision: 6.10" (return only major and minor version). Ipmitool mc info also returns "Aux Firmware Rev Info", which contains additional information about firmware revision. Could you please describe "Aux Firmware Rev Info" value (4 bytes)? Or even better send link on document, where "Aux Firmware Rev Info" is described. According to ipmi v2.0 this attribute is vendor specific.
example
#ipmitool mc info
device ID : 32
Device Revision : 1
Firmware Revision : 6.10
IPMI Version : 2.0
Manufacturer ID : 674
Manufacturer Name : DELL Inc
Product ID : 256 (0x0100)
Product Name : Unknown (0x100)
Device Available : yes
Provides Device SDRs : yes
Additional Device Support :
Sensor Device
SDR Repository Device
SEL Device
FRU Inventory Device
IPMB Event Receiver
Bridge
Chassis Device
Aux Firmware Rev Info :
0x00
0x1d
0x1e
0x00
Thanks
Radek Stritesky
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July 18th, 2023 12:00
Hello strita,
There is not document.
What I can find is this:
Aux Firmware Rev Info :
0x00
0x1d
0x1e
0x00
the 1st and 4th entries are 0s
the 2nd is the build number
the 3rd is the sub-release version
You would be looking converting the 3rd item to Decimal, which in this case is 30
There is not a document. You would just need to convert to decimal.
I will say I'm not too familiar with using ipmi tools but I hope this helps.