Hi Team,

Please find below the procedure to upgrade ALOM firmware in Sun Fire V125, V210,
V215, V240, V245, V250, V440, V445 and Netra 210, 240 and 440 servers.

I hope itll be helpful in future.

Upgrading ALOM on SunFire V215 to v. 1.6.10

Note: Presently, versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5.x and 1.6 of ALOM are in use but ALOM
1.6.x is the most recent and up-to-date version of this product available for download.

The best way to get Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager is from My Oracle Support (MOS).

- Login to MOS and go to the Patches & Updates tab.

- In the patch search field click on Product or Family
- In the product field put in 'Advanced Lights Out Manager' and click the
search button.
- The next page will provide a patch name 10263984
- Click the patch number 10263984 and the page will show a button for Download
- Click 'Download' and obtain the file shown: p10263984_160_Generic.zip
- Unzip the file, it will provide the following firmware:
* ALOM_1.6.10_fw_hw0.tar.gz - ALOM 1.6.10 Firmware for Sun Fire V125,
V210, V240, V250, V440, and Netra 210, 240 and 440
* ALOM_1.6.10_fw_hw8.tar.gz - ALOM 1.6.10 Firmware for Sun Fire V215,
V245 and V445

Login to the system and become root. Do not do this on the console as you will be
disconnected and will not be able to complete the procedure. The host OS will not go
down during this operation.

1 mkdir /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/images/

2 mv p10263984_160_Generic.zip /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/images/

3 cd /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/images

4 unzip *zip
Archive: p10263984_160_Generic.zip>
inflating: ALOM_1.6.10_fw_hw0.tar.gz
inflating: ALOM_1.6.10_fw_hw8.tar.gz
inflating: license_agreement1.html
inflating: readme.html
5 more readme.html (Ive removed the html stuff for readability)
Effective Date:
Long Description:

Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) is the standard system controller for out-of-band
management for Sun Fire V125, V210, V215, V240, V245, V250, V440, V445 and Netra 210, 240
and 440 servers. Its main functions allow for monitoring and control of the system, and for
remotely managing a server in a typical lights-out environment. It combines the features of RSC,
LOM and LOMlite in addition to many new capabilities. Before installation, please read the install
instructions included in the download package.

In Sun Fire V440 and V250 servers that use a ALOM System Controller Card, daughter cards
marked with part number 501-6346-06 (or higher, not -01 through -05) absolutely require ALOM
release 1.4 or later. ALOM is pre-installed on your system.This download is being made available
to customers who wish to upgrade to the current ALOM release or for some reason need to
reinstall the ALOM firmware on their system.

There are two different download files. Please select the file appropriate to your particular Sun
Fire or Netra server model.

Short Description:

ALOM is the standard System Controller for remote out-of-band management for Entry-level
servers.

Im upgrading a SunFire V215 so I select ALOM_1.6.10_fw_hw8.tar.gz

6 gunzip ALOM_1.6.10_fw_hw8.tar.gz

7 tar xvf ALOM_1.6.10_fw_hw8.tar

x README, 9057 bytes, 18 tape blocks
x copyright, 2915 bytes, 6 tape blocks
x Legal, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x Legal/THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt, 14286 bytes, 28 tape blocks
x Legal/ALOM_Entitlement.txt, 882 bytes, 2 tape blocks
x Legal/819-0764-10_SLA_Multi.pdf, 20025392 bytes, 39113 tape blocks
x alomfw, 3222346 bytes, 6294 tape blocks

8 /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/scadm download alomfw

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Download completed successfullyPlease wait for verification

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Complete

9 ALOM is now rebooting and the HOST OS remains running.

10 cd /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin

11 ./scadm version
SC Version v1.6
SC Bootmon Version: v1.6.10
SC Firmware Version: v1.6.10