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Hi,

We have a task. The maintainer of the IBM systems and needs to know the
firmware levels we have running on all our IBM SP frames. Because we
may have a problem supporting the hardware as the firmware levels are
very old, in that case we may not be able to supply spares with the
same firmware levels.

My requirements are: -

1) Find the existing levels
2) Find what the latest levels of firmware are from IBM

Any help would be appreciated

Hi Lakshmikanth,

You run
#lscfg -vp | grep -p Plat
Platform Firmware:
ROM Level.(alterable).......3K050715
where 3k050715 is the Firmware installed

And to get the latest firware use the below link
http://w3dcs.btv.ibm.com/software/swd/

That search string only seems to work on certain models. For me that
only works on 6H1's and 6M1's. Ex:

root@cws_sp:/>dsh "lscfg -vp | grep -p Plat" | dshbak -c
HOSTS
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
unxr_sp unxv_sp
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Platform Firmware:
ROM Level.(alterable).......CM021213
Version.....................RS6K
System Info Specific.(YL)...U0.1-P1/Y2
Physical Location: U0.1-P1/Y2


HOSTS
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
unxd_sp
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Platform Firmware:
ROM Level.(alterable).......MM021213
Version.....................RS6K
System Info Specific.(YL)...U0.1-P1/Y2
Physical Location: U0.1-P1/Y2


HOSTS
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
unxt_sp
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Platform Firmware:
ROM Level.(alterable).......CM020807
Version.....................RS6K
System Info Specific.(YL)...U0.1-P1/Y2
Physical Location: U0.1-P1/Y2

root@cws_sp:/>

To find the answer for my Silver Nodes, I had to use:
root@cws_sp:/>dsh "lscfg -vp | grep -p 'System Firmware'" | dshbak -c
HOSTS
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
unxa_sp unxb_sp unxc_sp
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
System Firmware:
ROM Level.(alterable).......L98362
Version.....................RS6K
System Info Specific.(YL)...P2

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 02:32 -0800, Lakshmikanth Putti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a task. The maintainer of the IBM systems and needs to know the
> firmware levels we have running on all our IBM SP frames. Because we
> may have a problem supporting the hardware as the firmware levels are
> very old, in that case we may not be able to supply spares with the
> same firmware levels.
>
> My requirements are: -
>
> 1) Find the existing levels
> 2) Find what the latest levels of firmware are from IBM
>
> Any help would be appreciated

Does 'invscout' not work? If it does, you can upload the report here:

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp...?page=mds.html

Wil