Firmware management

Use the command-line interface to administer the firmware level of your system.

Firmware object

The Firmware object has the following methods:

__lshift__: This method is an alias for the upgrade() method.
upgrade: Upgrades the firmware on the system with the contents of the specified file. This function accepts a single parameter that specifies a local file containing a firmware image to be uploaded and installed on the system. The parameter must be either the file name of the firmware image or a Python file object from which the firmware image can be read. This function uploads the firmware image and initiates the upgrade process before returning. Because firmware images are large, this upload process might take a considerable amount of time, especially if the network connection to the system is slow. This function raises exceptions to indicate problems reading the local firmware image or transferring the image to the Cloud Pak System.