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Method for realizing FW upgrading of LSI RAID card under Linux system without restarting system

A technology for system implementation and restart, which is applied in program loading/starting, software deployment, version control, etc. It can solve the problems of related software abnormality, time-consuming, and RAID card time-consuming, etc., so as to improve work efficiency, facilitate maintenance work, and save Effect of manual compile time

Inactive Publication Date: 2016-12-07
LANGCHAO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IND CO LTD
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[0002] During the entire life cycle of the RAID card, it is inevitable to perform routine FW upgrades on the RAID cards on the customer server. At this time, the server will run the business online. The business process will be very cumbersome and time-consuming. It is very necessary and efficient to upgrade the FW by suspending the business under the system without restarting the server.
[0003] It takes a lot of time to upgrade the FW of the RAID card without restarting the server that is not online. The customer not only needs to migrate the business, but also needs to close some programs related to the online business such as the database, and start these business-related programs when starting up again. The process will consume a lot of time and may cause abnormalities in related software such as databases, causing unnecessary troubles

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[0012] The content of the present invention is described in more detail below:

[0013] The invention integrates the instructions of the RAID management tool into the shell script, runs flash.sh in any directory under the Linux system to realize the automatic upgrade of the FW by running the flash.sh containing the FW file.

[0014] The method instruction body that introduces in the present invention has three parts, the first part, judging whether the RAID card management tool has been installed in the system, if no management tool needs to be installed; the second part, judging the system architecture, deciding which version of management to use Tools; the third part, upgrade FW and obtain FW version information through management tool commands.

[0015] (1) The first part is introduced below to determine whether the RAID card management tool has been installed in the system

[0016] [ ! -f / opt / MegaRAID / storcli / storcli* ] && rpm -i storcli-*.noarch.rpm> / dev / null || 2> / dev / ...

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The invention provides a method for realizing FW upgrading of an LSI RAID card under a Linux system without restarting the system, and belongs to the field of FW upgrading. The method is used on the basis of a shell script under the Linux system and an RAID card management tool Storcli; and through integrating an instruction of the RAID management tool into the shell script, an FW containing file operates flash.sh under any directory under the Linux system so as to realize automatic FW upgrading. According to the method provided by the invention, the work efficiency in the test work is improved, and convenience is provided for the later maintenance work of servers.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to FW upgrading technology, in particular to a method for realizing FW upgrading of an LSIRAID card under a Linux system without restarting the system. Background technique [0002] During the entire life cycle of the RAID card, it is inevitable to perform routine FW upgrades on the RAID cards on the customer server. At this time, the server will run the business online. The business process will be very cumbersome and time-consuming. It is very necessary and efficient to upgrade the FW by suspending the business under the system without restarting the server. [0003] It takes a lot of time to upgrade the FW of the RAID card without restarting the server that is not online. The customer not only needs to migrate the business, but also needs to close some programs related to the online business such as the database, and start these business-related programs when starting up again. The process will consume a lot of time and may ca...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F9/445G06F9/44
CPCG06F8/61G06F8/65G06F8/71
Inventor 王宏运
Owner LANGCHAO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IND CO LTD
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