Infoblox supports upgrading firmware on the following NIOS-X physical servers:

• Dell VEP-1425

• Dell VEP-1485

• B1-212

To update the firmware on your NIOS-X physical servers, do the following:

1. Go to the Dell official website.

2. On the Drivers and Downloads page, click the down arrow to expand the firmware updater section.
   
   

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3. In the expanded section, click the View full driver details link.
   
   

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4. On the firmware updater page, navigate to the Firmware Images section, and then click Download.
   
   

5. 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.
   
   

6. You can now install the firmware upgrade script via the debug CLI or an USB flash drive.

Applying Firmware Updates Using the Debug CLI

1. Log in to the debug CLI.

2. 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 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 NIOS-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 NIOS-X server

   transfer_sb    - transfer support bundle to the remote NIOS-X server using scp protocol

   vmstat         - report virtual memory statistics

    

   (ib-debug-cli)$
   
   

3. 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.

4. Enter firmware info at the command prompt to check the current firmware version.

Applying Firmware Updates Using a USB Flash Drive

1. Download the firmware script zip file on to a USB flash drive.

2. Insert the USB drive in to the hardware appliance.

3. All supported NIOS-X physical servers running the latest ISO package will auto-detect the firmware script and update the firmware automatically.