(OA)On-Board Administrator on C7000/C3000 - FIRMWARE UPDATE

Good day!All,

Welcome Back! Today i will share with you all the steps we followed to updated OA for c7000/c3000.

Basically there are couple of ways to accomplish the task

1. Using HP SPP , pointing to Active OA IP and re-mediating it
2. Manual download of bin file and updating it..

Before you even start thinking for updating Firmware always safe to take a backup, so login to Active OA using the IP address and on the left hand side expand Enclosure Settings, Configurations and click Show Config, a Text File will just pop up, save it which will be your backup file in-case you have to restore it.

Option 1 using HP SPP i already posted a article on how to apply it for a Windows Server, the steps are the same just that While Adding Node you type in the IP Address of the Active OA and choose the right type as below.

Note: I am using June HP SPP ..

Option 2 :

1. Download the Bin file from HP Site
2.Expand Active Administrator and click on Firmware update , it will show the current Firmware level

3.Click on Browse and point it to the bin file you downloaded and click Update..
4. Click ok on the below pop-up

5. You will see something like this below saying updating Firmware...

6.That was easy we just updated the OA Firmware , to double check click Rack Firmware and see if it shows updated Firmware version

In-case you guys wondering if this required downtime, well after doing so many updates i can confidently say that this doesn't require downtime and can be updated any time.
If anyone out there had any downtime doing this please share the information to me..


Hope this helps someone!!!!