BloxOne Infoblox supports upgrading firmware on the following hardware appliancesNIOS-X physical servers:
Dell VEP-1425
Dell VEP-1485
Infoblox B1-212
To update the firmware on your hardware appliancesNIOS-X physical servers, do the following:
Go to the Dell official website.
On the Drivers and Downloads page, click the down arrow to expand the firmware updater section.
In the expanded section, click the View full driver details link.
On the firmware updater page, navigate to the Firmware Images section, and then click Download.
On the firmware updater EULA page, read the license agreement, and then click Accept at the bottom of the page. This will initiate the automatic download of the update file. The downloaded file will be saved in a .zip format. Other file formats are not supported.
You can now install the firmware upgrade script via the debug CLI or an USB flash drive.
Applying Firmware Updates Using the Debug CLI
Log in to the debug CLI.
Enter help at the command prompt and look for the firmware command option.
root@bloxone-infoblox:/home/dev# debug-cli
(ib-debug-cli)$ help
clear - clear the terminal screen
df - report file system disk space usage
dig - DNS lookup utility
du - estimate file space usage
exit - exit the program (console mode), switch to healthchecks (dual mode)
firmware - apply patch on the host NIOS-X server or print BIOS, SSD, and network card firmware info
free - display amount of free and used memory in the system
help - display list of commands allowed to execute
ifconfig - display a network interface
iostat - report CPU statistics and input/output statistics for devices and partitions
ip - show routing, network devices, interfaces and tunnels
nslookup - query Internet name servers
ntpq - standard NTP query program
ping - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hostsNIOS-X servers
route - show the IP routing table
service_config - display and transfer service config file
ss - utility to investigate sockets
ssh - enable or disable ssh
tcpdump - dump traffic on a network
top - display Linux processes
traceroute - print the route packets trace to network hostNIOS-X server
transfer_sb - transfer support bundle to the remote host NIOS-X server using scp protocol
vmstat - report virtual memory statistics
(ib-debug-cli)$
Enter firmware apply at the command prompt to run the firmware apply command. Note that if the firmware version is already up to date, you will see the following message on the debug CLI console after running the firmware apply command. Otherwise, the system will upgrade the firmware to the latest version.
(ib-debug-cli)$ firmware apply rsharma@192.168.1.2:/Users/rsharma/Downloads/Linux_DLMC2b_SFDN004E_20220315.zip
The authenticity of host NIOS-X server '192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2)' can't be established.
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Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.2' (ECDSA) to the list of known hostsNIOS-X servers.
Password:
/tmp/tmp.iZEbWyy4YV ~
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Firmware Version: 10.2.4-1.0-00047
(ib-debug-cli)$
Applying Firmware Updates Using a USB Flash Drive
Download the firmware script zip file on to a USB flash drive.
Insert the USB drive in to the hardware appliance.
All supported hardware appliances NIOS-X physical servers running the latest ISO package will auto-detect the firmware script and update the firmware automatically.
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