SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP25078 PART NUMBER: 310331-006 FILE NAME: SP25078.EXE TITLE: Systems ROMPaq Firmware Upgrade Diskette for HP ProLiant DL380 G3 Servers. VERSION: 4.05A LANGUAGE: English CATEGORY: ROMPaqs DIVISIONS: Systems PRODUCTS AFFECTED: HP ProLiant DL380 G3 OPERATING SYSTEM: ALL SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: N/A PREREQUISITE: N/A EFFECTIVE DATE: August 8, 2003 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 2.X SUPERSEDES: SP24768 DESCRIPTION: This release provides updated system ROM images for the latest maintenance releases of HP DL380 G3 Servers. New Features - ProLiant DL380 G3 ROM P29 (07/25/2003) ============================================ Updated to new PXE version 6.2.11 Added BIOS Serial Console auto-enable upon detection of VT100 compatible terminal running at 9600 Baud connected to COM1. Replaced Full-screen menu GUI with a Command-Line interface (CLI) for all ROM embedded utilities (RBSU, etc.) when the server is being controlled remotely via the BIOS Serial Console option. Customers that do not use the embedded BIOS Serial Console feature will not notice any difference in functionality. Detailed differences as follows: 1) System will check for a VT100 compatible terminal running at 9600 Baud connected to the COM1 serial port and enable the BIOS Serial Console option automatically if one is detected. This is the default out-of-box behavior. This obviates the need to run RBSU with a local keyboard and monitor attached initially to enable the BIOS Serial Console feature. Customers that have had their configuration custom set should not notice any difference. Customers that use BIOS Serial Console feature, but at a different baud rate than 9600 or with a non-VT100 compatible terminal will still need to configure the feature via RBSU initially. 2) The interface for all ROM embedded utilities such as RBSU will run with a Command-Line interface (CLI) if the user is controlling the ProLiant server remotely through the BIOS Serial Console option. The CLI interface has built in HELP commands. The HELP command provides a list of all available commands for each embedded utility. The CLI interface for each embedded utility provides equivalent functionality of the full-screen GUI interface. Additionally, the CLI interface in the RBSU utility also has new scripting support via a 'SHOW CONFIG SCRIPT' command. 3) The normal full-screen menu interface will still be used for all embedded utilities if a local keyboard and monitor is attached and being used instead of the BIOS Serial Console feature. Also, the CLI interface for ROM embedded utilities can be disabled altogether via an override setting in the RBSU - BIOS Serial Console menu. Problems Fixed - ProLiant DL380 G3 ROM P29 (07/25/2003) ============================================ None. HOW TO USE: 1. Obtain a formatted 1.44 MB diskette. 2. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change to that directory. The file that is downloaded is SP25078.EXE. 3. From that drive and directory, execute the SoftPaq file: SP25078 [ENTER] You will be prompted to place the formatted 1.44 MB diskette into a diskette drive to create diskette. 4. After the diskette is created, you may delete the downloaded file SP25078.EXE if you wish. Copyright 2003, Hewlett-Packard Company. All rights reserved. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies