Update HP iLO Firmware

Table of Contents
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 3
Objective 3
Environment................................................................................................................................ 3
2 Pre-requisite ....................................................................................................................................... 3
3 Update Plan ....................................................................................................................................... 3
To update using PowerShell........................................................................................................ 3
To update manually..................................................................................................................... 4
Procedure 4
4 Risks .................................................................................................................................................. 5
5 Impact ................................................................................................................................................ 5
6 Roll back Plan .................................................................................................................................... 5
7 Schedule: ........................................................................................................................................... 5
1 Introduction
This document describes the implementation plan for updating iLO on HP servers.

Objective
 Updating iLO by using the Flash Firmware feature
 Updating iLO firmware using Powershell

Environment
 HPE ProLiant Gen10 Servers

2 Pre-requisite
To implement the iLO update, we need the following information –

 List of HP server names with iLO IP addresses

 Credentials to login to the HP Management Console (iLO management Web console)
 Check the existing iLO firmware version

I will install the Install HP Management Powershell Pack on my computer and download the appropriate iLO
update *.bin firmware update file. This will be the latest iLO bin version which is ver 5.

3 Update Plan
To update using PowerShell
 Create a simple .csv file in Excel called HPEServers.csv and create a column called ServersiLO.
 Check the existing versions and see what needs updating. Run the below commands to do this:

# check the iLOs versions

$InputFile = "C:\Temp\HPEServers.csv"
$MyHPEFile = Import-CSV $InputFile
$credential = Get-Credential

foreach ($HPServer in $MyHPEFile) {

$Server = $HPServer.ServersiLO
$connection = Connect-HPEiLO -Credential $credential -
DisableCertificateAuthentication -IP $Server
Get-HPEiLOFirmwareVersion -Connection $connection
}
 To update the firmware, download the firmware .bin file and put it in the location of the input file. Then just
run the code below to update the iLOs

# update the iLOs

$firmwareFile = "C:\Temp\iLO5\ilo5_230.bin"
$InputFile = "C:\Temp\HPEServers.csv"
$MyHPEFile = Import-CSV $InputFile
$credential = Get-Credential

foreach ($HPServer in $MyHPEFile) {

$Server = $HPServer.ServersiLO
$connection = Connect-HPEiLO -Credential $credential -
DisableCertificateAuthentication -IP $Server
Update-HPEiLOFirmware -Connection $connection -Location $firmwareFile -
Confirm:$false
}

For TLS 1.2, we run this command before we run the main code above.

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

To update manually
To update each server manually, by logging into each server individually and -

 Update iLO firmware by using the Flash Firmware feature

 Update firmware from any network client by using the iLO web interface.

Procedure
 Obtain an iLO firmware or server firmware file. Download from HP site
 Click Firmware & OS Software in the navigation tree, and then click Update Firmware.

If the Update Firmware option is not displayed, click the ellipsis icon in the top right corner of the iLO web
interface, then click Update Firmware.

 Select the Local file or Remote file option.

In the Local binary file box, click Browse (Internet Explorer or Firefox) or Choose Files (Chrome), and then specify
the location of the firmware component.

4 Risks
The iLO firmware update exercise is low risk. There is no impact to the Production system because the iLO uses
its own dedicated NIC for management.

5 Impact
The iLO will require a restart after the firmware update. There is no impact to server Production connectivity.
Access to the HP management console maybe disrupted during the update.

6 Roll back Plan

If the update fails, the system will automatically revert back to the previous iLO version.

7 Schedule:
The tentative date is to schedule this update at 7pm and complete at 9pm on Friday the 15 of October.

 For 4-6 servers, the estimated time to do manual update will be 2 hours including monitoring for any issues
after the update.
 Update will start at 7pm and conclude by 8pm. Additional 1 hour to 9pm will be for observing and monitoring
the servers for issues including troubleshooting, roll back etc.