You can update bootable images on writable media using the image configuration file created by Lenovo XClarity Essentials Bootable Media Creator.
Complete the following procedure to update existing bootable media.
- On a command line, enter the command name with no options to start the Bootable Media Creator wizard.
The command name varies and is based on the operating system from which you are running the command. The following table lists the name of the command for each supported operating system.
For more information about the supported operating systems, see Supported operating systems.| Operating system | Command name |
|---|
| Microsoft Windows | lnvgy_utl_lxce_bomcxxx_xx.x.x_windows_indiv.exe |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.X AMD64/EM64T and above | lnvgy_utl_lxce_bomcxxx_xx.x.x_linux_indiv.bin |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.X AMD64/EM64T and above | lnvgy_utl_lxce_bomcxxx_xx.x.x_linux_indiv.bin |
- On the Welcome page, type a description in the Descriptive name field. The descriptive text is displayed on the screen when you use the bootable media.
- Click Load in a previously saved configuration to load settings that are defined in a specific configuration file.
- Click Next.
- Type the fully qualified path and file name for the configuration file, and then click Next.
- On the Targeted System page, select one or more machine types to be supported by the bootable media, click Next, and do one of the following based on your needs:
To update the system support list for all functions, click Update List.
To roll back to the original system support lists bundled with each function, click Rollback.
To add or delete machine types for Lenovo systems, click + or -.
If you select the machine types in the Lenovo Platforms table, you cannot select the machine types in the Storage Platforms table.
- On the Media Purpose page, complete these fields and then click Next:
- Updates
- Select this option bundle LXCE UpdateXpress and firmware updates for the targeted systems on the bootable media.
- The firmware is updated in LXCE UpdateXpress.
- This function updates only firmware. Device drivers must be updated separately.
- Full
Select this option to integrate all functions in one image, including firmware updates, VPD updates, inventory and FFDC collection, advanced system configuration, diagnostics, RAID configuration, and so on.
To generate the RAID configuration, select Look in a local directory for the RAID configuration file (*.ini), then the RAID configuration file will be generated in the specified path.
- On the Acquire Location page, complete these fields, and then click Next:
- Check the Lenovo Web site
- Select this radio button to acquire the latest updates from the Lenovo Web site before creating the bootable media.
- UpdateXpress System Pack (UXSPs)
- This is preferred method to obtain updates.
- Select this radio button to acquire complete UpdateXpress System Packs. Each UpdateXpress System Pack contains an integration-tested bundle of online, firmware updates for each ThinkSystem, System x, and BladeCenter system.
- Latest available individual updates
- Select this option to acquire individual updates.
- Look in a local directory
- Select this option to acquire updates, tools, and boot environment from the local system. Type the fully qualified path and file name in the given field, or click the Browse to select the file.
- On the Network Access page, if you have no special requirement for security access, click Test Connection to check the network connection of the Target URL, and click Next. If you have more security concerns, before clicking Test Connection, configure Proxy server and/or Custom URL security configuration depending on your security requirements as follows:
- On the Target Directory page, specify the directory where you want to store the downloaded files.
- Click Next. On the Media Format page, specify the format to use for the bootable media.
- To create an ISO image:
- For Device type, select CD/DVD.
- Select Write to image file and then type the fully qualified path and file name for the ISO image in the given field.
To copy all update packages to system memory before update starts, select Copy payloads to system memory.
- To create a USB flash drive:
- For Device type, select USB.
- Select Write directly to device to write the bootable medium to the specified USB flash drive.
- For Disk, select the letter associated with the USB flash drive for Windows (such as E:) or the device name for Linux (such as /dev/sdb).
- To create PXE files:
- For Device type, select PXE.
- For PXE TFTP server address, specify the IP address of the TFTP server to use for PXE boot.
- For Directory to write PXE files to, select the fully qualified path or click Browse to select the path where you want to write the PXE files in the given field.
- Click Next.
If you selected Update functions on the
Media Purpose page, the
Unattended Mode Configuration page is displayed. Complete the following applicable fields:
- Reboot BMC after updating BMC firmware automatically
- Do not use unattended mode
- Select this radio button to disable unattended mode.
- Use unattended mode
- Select this radio button to enable unattended updates. If you select this option you must complete the following additional fields:
- Upload log files to:
- Use this list to choose where to place the log files when unattended updates are complete. Your choices are:
- TFTP Server
- FTP Server
- NFS Share
- Samba Server
- USB Drive
- SFTP Server
- To upload log files to a TFTP, FTP, Samba, or SFTP server, or to an NFS share, the directory where the files are to be uploaded must already exist (it will not be created as part of the upload process), and it must allow anonymous access.
- To upload the unattended log package to the specified location, you must ensure that you can perform the following actions, if you are using the Rhel6.4 x86-64 operating system environment:
- For Samba shares: mount -t cifs //$address/$directory $mount_point -o user=anonymous, password=anonymous
- For NFS shares: mount -t nfs $address:$directory $mount_point
- For FTP and TFTP uploads, ensure that the local file can be uploaded to the address and directory specified in the FTP or TFTP command.
- Considering the security, users should input the credential of the FTP/Samba/SFTP server in the unattended mode.
- Server Address
- The address of the server where the log files will be loaded.
- Save to directory
- The directory where the logs are saved.
- Action after update is completed.
- Your choices are:
- On the Confirm Choices page, review the configuration information you provided for creating the bootable media.
- Optional: Click Save to save this configuration information to a file, which you can import into this tool to recreate this bootable media at a later time.
- On the Update Selection page, select the packages to be updated.
To filter the packages, select Group by Machine Type/Group by category/All Updates, or search the target machine in the search box.
- Click Next.
The Creation Progress page is displayed. Bootable Media Creator acquires UpdateXpress System Pack updates, Update tool and Maintenance Mode OS, additionally acquires Dynamic System Analysisand Advance System Utility if System X server and FULL function are selected on the Media Purpose page, and then creates the bootable media. A progress bar indicates that the acquisition and creation are in progress and shows the percentage of progress.
To create a new USBKey, you can select an existing USBKey, and click Create Again. The same USBKey will be created.
- When the bootable media is finished, click Next.
You can also copy and run the commands generated in Step 15.
- Click Finish.
