HP iLo Firmware Upgrade For HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 Running freeBSD

OS: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4

I am in a bit of a situation. I need to upgrade iLo on a an HP 360DL box but all the hponcfg utilities I need are only linux(debian or redhat) packages.

Here are some links to documentation.

HP Utilities needed for upgrade.

HP support page that doesn't work because i am running freeBSD 11

2 Answers

You can upgrade iLO through its own web UI, through Administration → Firmware. For example, if it's iLO 4, then upload the ILO4_270.BIN file (which can be extracted from the official .scexe or Windows .exe package using 7zip).

Here is what I ended up doing. I extracted the bin file from the HP firmware package by doing

CP032487.scexe --unpack=/<unpack path>

I installed apache on the server, and mapped the ilo4_255.bin file on the server with an apache alias.

Alias /ilo4_255.bin /foo/foobar/ilo4_255.bin
<Directory /foo/foobar/ilo4_255.bin> Require all granted
</Directory>

Then I ssh'd into the iLo box itself and ran

load /map1/firmware1 -source 

And just like that we are all fixed up!