Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA) firmware update of IMM2, DSA, and UEFI fails and logs that another update is in progress. This error occurs when the IMM is under heavy load.
(IMM2 = Integrated Management Module II, DSA = Dynamic System Analysis, UEFI = Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
Source
RETAIN tip: H214561
Symptom
Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA) firmware update of IMM2 or
DSA or UEFI fails and logs that another update is in progress. This
occurs when the IMM is under heavy load.
(where IMM2 = Integrated Management Module II, DSA = Dynamic
System Analysis, UEFI = Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
Affected configurations
The system can be any of the following Lenovo x86 servers:
- Lenovo Flex System x240 Compute Node, type
2588, any model
- Lenovo Flex System x240 Compute Node, type
7162, any model
- Lenovo Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node,
type 2591, any model
- Lenovo Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node,
type 9532, any model
- Lenovo Flex System x280 Compute Node, type
7196, any model
- Lenovo Flex System x880 Compute Node, type
4259, any model
- Lenovo Flex System x880 Compute Node, type
7196, any model
- Lenovo System x3500 M5, type 5464, any
model
- Lenovo System x3550 M5, type 5463, any
model
- Lenovo System x3650 M5, type 5462, any
model
- Lenovo System x3750 M4, type 8753, any
model
- Lenovo System x3850 X6, type 6241, any
model
- Lenovo System x3950 X6, type 6241, any
model
The system is configured with at least one of the following:
- Lenovo XClarity Administrator, any
version
This tip is not option specific.
The following system firmware levels is affected: Build ID:
TCOO08Q
Note: This does not imply that the network operating
system will work under all combinations of hardware and
software.
Please see the compatibility page for more information:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/
Solution
This behavior will be corrected in a future release of IMM.
The target date for this release is scheduled for Fourth Quarter
2015.
The file is or will be available by selecting the appropriate
Product Group, type of System, Product name, Product machine type,
and Operating system on IBM Support's Fix Central Web page, at the
following
URL:Â Â Â Â
Workaround
When this issue occurs, retry the firmware update.
Additional information
Since the probability of the IMM reporting wrong update status
is very low, users can retry the update operation in LXCA when the
failure occurs.
Lenovo x86 servers:Operating system independent / None
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