Ondrej Žilinec – IT Blog

Once a while web-based update for firmware on IBM FlashSystem doesn’t work. Or it takes long time to finish. Then there is a time to make update manually by following steps:

• Download firmware update packages you would like to apply
• Log to FlashSystem using SSH and run command to clean failed or old files:

cleardumps -prefix /home/admin/upgrade

• Go back to your computer and upload downloaded firmware payload files into FlashSystem using following commands:

pscp.exe [FILE_TO_UPLOAD] superuser@[IP_FLASHSYSTEM]:/home/admin/upgrade

• When you upload required files (firmware image and upgradetest utility), you can select those files from web update system menu:

• Now you can proceed update as normal.

This bug with problem to upload huge files into FlashSystems are since 8.6.x.x of firmware.

Enjoy,