SysAdmin’s Diary

dmidecode and hpasmcli can be used to check HP Proliant System ROM (BIOS) version in Linux. In this example, I’m checking System ROM version of HP Proliant BL460c which is running RHEL 5.2,

1) dmidecode, provided by dmidecode package.

# dmidecode 2.7
SMBIOS 2.4 present.
72 structures occupying 2245 bytes.
Table at 0x000EE000.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes.
BIOS Information
        Vendor: HP
        Version: I15
        Release Date: 11/02/2008
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 4096 kB
        Characteristics:

2) hpasmcli, provided by hpasm package.

[root@kptordb01 ~]# hpasmcli
HP management CLI for Linux (v1.0)
Copyright 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Group, L.P.

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NOTE: Some hpasmcli commands may not be supported on all Proliant servers.
      Type 'help' to get a list of all top level commands.
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hpasmcli> show server
System        : ProLiant BL460c G1
Serial No.    : [deleted]
ROM version   : I15 11/02/2008
iLo present   : Yes
Embedded NICs : 2
        NIC1 MAC: 00:1b:78:00:98:56
        NIC2 MAC: 00:1b:78:00:98:5e

Processor: 0
        Name         : Intel Xeon
        Stepping     : 11
        Speed        : 3000 MHz
        Bus          : 1333 MHz
        Core         : 4
        Thread       : 4
        Socket       : 1
        Level2 Cache : 8192 KBytes
        Status       : Ok

Processor total  : 1

Memory installed : 16384 MBytes
ECC supported    : Yes

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