Chapter 20. Designing for nondisruptive upgrades 27520.5 RLM firmware NDUThe RLM is a remote management card that is installed in N6000 and N7000 seriescontrollers. It provides remote platform management capabilities such as remote platformmanagement, remote access, monitoring, troubleshooting, and logging. The RLM isoperational regardless of the state of the controller, and is available if the controller has inputpower. The RLM firmware can be updated by the Data ONTAP command-line interface or theRLM command-line interface. Both procedures are nondisruptive upgrades of the RLMfirmware.Perform nondisruptive upgrades by downloading the latest RLM firmware from the IBMSupport site to a web server on a network accessible by the controller. After the firmware is ndownloaded, use one of these methods to download the firmware to the RLM: From the Data ONTAP command-line interface:From the controller console, issue the following command to install the firmware:software install http://web_server_name/path/RLM_FW.zip -fThe installation can take up to 30 minutes to complete. To update the files afterinstallation, use the rlm update –f command. From the RLM command-line interface:Issue the following command to install the firmware:update http://web_server_ip_address/path/RLM_FW.tar.gz -fThen reboot the RLM with the rlm reboot command.
