CentOS - Jul 2019 - HPE ProLiant - support Linux Vendor Firmware Service ?

hi guys

does anybody here runs on HPE ProLiant?
I was hoping you can tell whether HPE support Linux Vendor
Firmware Service and you actually get to upgrade ProLiants'
BIOS/firmware via fwupdmgr?

many thanks, L.

lejeczek via CentOS wrote:
> hi guys
>
> does anybody here runs on HPE ProLiant? I was hoping you can tell whether
> HPE support Linux Vendor
> Firmware Service and you actually get to upgrade ProLiants'
> BIOS/firmware via fwupdmgr?
>
>
Dunno 'bout "Linux Vendor Firmware Service", but HPE support, ah,
yeah...
let's not go there. And they *really* want you to use MS DOS to update the
firmware. Oh, and when we had support in to do repairs about 6 or so
months ago on our small SGI supercomputer (they bought SGI), the techs
were worried, because HPE was spinning off support to Unisys, and how they
were going to get parts....

      mark "at least it's not Oracle/Sun support is all I can say"

On 01/07/2019 18:38, mark wrote:
> lejeczek via CentOS wrote:
>> hi guys
>>
>> does anybody here runs on HPE ProLiant? I was hoping you can tell
whether
>> HPE support Linux Vendor
>> Firmware Service and you actually get to upgrade ProLiants'
>> BIOS/firmware via fwupdmgr?
>>
>>
> Dunno 'bout "Linux Vendor Firmware Service", but HPE support,
ah, yeah...
> let's not go there. And they *really* want you to use MS DOS to update
the
> firmware. Oh, and when we had support in to do repairs about 6 or so
> months ago on our small SGI supercomputer (they bought SGI), the techs
> were worried, because HPE was spinning off support to Unisys, and how they
> were going to get parts....
>
>       mark "at least it's not Oracle/Sun support is all I can
say"
>
hi, thanks for the info.
And you have tried fwupdmgr and no positive results? Which
Gen your ProLiants are?
On https://fwupd.org/ HPE logo shows up plus some notes but
first-hand experience is as always best to have, which I do
not have as I only begin to consider HPE hardware for the
first time.

Dell, which I have had for many years, do their own OMSA
which is better than nothing but this too is flaky at times.
I also a few years ago got Dell's tech support telling me to
do MS-DOS stuff in order to update BIOS.

I'm thinking & hoping that maybe IBM, since they are now
Redhat, will supply us with premium grade software support
for their hardware. Although IBM is a bit like Intel in my
opinion - they do not innovate that much, are old and
struggle to understand the end users like us.

Hi,

We had some DL380-Gen10 on production, firmware updates are made via iLO!
Then boot after it is done, on Dell (with OMSA) we can update from linux
and boot after, same thing on my point of view.

      Att.,

               Antonio.

Em seg, 1 de jul de 2019 ?s 14:12, lejeczek via CentOS <centos at
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escreveu:
> hi guys
>
> does anybody here runs on HPE ProLiant?
> I was hoping you can tell whether HPE support Linux Vendor
> Firmware Service and you actually get to upgrade ProLiants'
> BIOS/firmware via fwupdmgr?
>
> many thanks, L.
>
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On 01/07/2019 17:42, lejeczek via CentOS wrote:
> hi guys
>
> does anybody here runs on HPE ProLiant?
> I was hoping you can tell whether HPE support Linux Vendor
> Firmware Service and you actually get to upgrade ProLiants'
> BIOS/firmware via fwupdmgr?
>
> many thanks, L.
>
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So far it looks like not many people here if any at all, use
fwupd/LVFS which is a bit surprising to me since this if
what Redhat promote as a solution universally supported by
increasingly more hardware vendors.
I do upgrade UEFI/BIOS on my Dell Latitude with fwupd, have
had for last couple of years and it works beautifully,
though my other Lenovo e485 is missing from fwupd.

regards, L.

On Jul 1, 2019, at 16:47, lejeczek via CentOS <centos at centos.org>
wrote:
> So far it looks like not many people here if any at all, use
> fwupd/LVFS which is a bit surprising to me since this if
> what Redhat promote as a solution universally supported by
> increasingly more hardware vendors.
> I do upgrade UEFI/BIOS on my Dell Latitude with fwupd, have
> had for last couple of years and it works beautifully,
> though my other Lenovo e485 is missing from fwupd.
If you check out the device list:

https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devicelist

You can see that not a lot of older hardware is supported.  Dell seems to do a
better job than others, although I?m glad to see Lenovo has most of their recent
thinkpads there now.
?
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>