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BMC version appears 15.95P1 after update BMC firmware

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Applies to

  • Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
  • AFF A250
  • ONTAP 9

Issue

  • Updating BMC FW to 15.6, but it changed to 15.95P1 version, after when BMC reboot, it downgraded to 15.5P1.
  • Accessing with SP of a node in ssh, BMC console appears "Unable to open/create the Log File" message.

[12388 : 12388 INFO]Error sending Signal USR1 to  UART Logging application

[12388 : 12388 CRITICAL][uartlog.c:917]ERROR: Unable to open/create the Log File /var/sollog/SOLHostCapture.log::: No such file or directory
                    [12388 : 12388 CRITICAL][uartlog.c:111]ERROR: Unable to open/create the Log File /var/sollog/SOLHostCapture.log

  • Before BMC reboot:

Cluster::*> sp show

    IP           Firmware
Node          Type Status      Configured   Version   IP Address
------------- ---- -----------
------------ --------- -------------------------
node-01 BMC online   true         15.95P1   XX.XXX.XX.XXX
node-02 BMC unknown  true         15.95P1   XX.XXX.XX.XXX
2 entries were
displayed.

  • Rebooting the SP, SP has downgrades it to pre-update 15.5P1:

Cluster::*> sp show
                               IP           Firmware
Node
Type Status      Configured   Version   IP Address
------------- ---- ----------- ------------ ---------
-------------------------
node-01 BMC online   true         15.5P1    XX.XXX.XX.XXX
node-02 BMC online   true         15.5P1    XX.XXX.XX.XXX
2 entries were displayed.

 

 

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