Aaron Delp’s BladeVault

I found an interesting bug in the latest version (1.42o) of the IBM Blade AMM (Advanced Management Module) that I wanted to share with everyone.  If you are using the new Intelligent Copper Pass Thru Modules you are not able to update the firmware on the ICPM.  If you try to update it using the AMM interface, you will get an error and the ICPM will not flash.

This may not be a deal killer for other switches but it was for the ICPM because we needed the latest version for the modules to work correctly (version 1.0.1.2 if I remember right).  So, catch 22….

IBM Support found the problem and it was indeed a bug in the 1.42o AMM.  If you back level to 1.42i, the problem goes away.  The problem is 1.42i is pulled from the web.  So, if you see this, open a ticket with IBM support and they will fix you up.

I assume the next version of the management module code will fix the bug and/or IBM will start shipping the ICPM’s with the 1.0.1.2 code on the ICPM so this article probably has a limited life span.

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