Checking the firmware version

To check the firmware version, do one of the following:

1. Access the BladeCenter^® Management Module.
2. Click Monitors → Firmware VPD. The Blade Server Firmware VPD window contains the build identifier, release, and revision.

From the Linux^® command line, run the following commands:

# for file in `ls /proc/device-tree/openprom/*bank*`; do echo $file; \
  cat $file; echo; echo; done 

The following sample output shows that the blade has been booted from the temporary firmware bank, which contains version 6.14.E of the firmware.

/proc/device-tree/openprom/ibm,fw-bank
T
/proc/device-tree/openprom/ibm,fw-perm-bank
CB1FW614E       , 06-26-2006 22:52
/proc/device-tree/openprom/ibm,fw-temp-bank
CB1FW614E       , 06-26-2006 22:52