Re: Upgrade the HMC: is it possible remotely?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Remote upgrades are awesome. I have upgraded MANY HMCs that I have never 
seen!

Follow the docs to the network install images. These are NOT the same 
images you get from Fix Central!!! You will then as suggested place them 
on an FTP server for the HMC to pull over with GetUpgFiles. Then a save 
upgrade data and a special IPL with upgrade and off it goes.

Now if you do not have the remove view option in the HMC you're running 
blind and it takes a while so I just set a PING and when it starts 
responding you'll have the GUI back in about 5 minutes.

As to your upgrade path I didn't review the link but 7.3.5 to 7.7.8 
seems a far jump, the rest of the jumps are spot on.


        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 9/21/2016 3:38 AM, Frigyes.Szepesi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi to the Gurus,
>
> We have an HMC on V7.3.5.0, we would like to upgrade it to the current level, V8.8.5.
>
> According to this document:
>
> http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.nsf/ibmscdirect/23C4789BA6F5321886256FD300586B7F
>
> the upgrade path would be:
>
> V7.3.5.0->V7.7.8->V8.8.1->V8.8.3->V8.8.5
>
> Is it correct?
>
> My other question is: is it possible to do the upgrade remotely? (By using files downloaded to a local FTP server, not by using DVD sor iso images on a flash dirve) In this document (upgrade to V7.7.8)
>
> http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/0/ece7c6d1526edf2986257c34004fbb25?OpenDocument&TableRow=5.2#5.
>
> I saw that it is possible to use getupgfiles command from the HMC to download files from a local FTP server, not IBM's. On later releases it is not mentioned, but I guess it is possible. Is it really?
>
> Frigyes Szepesi
>
> iSeries Specialist