CN110427199B

CN110427199B - Method, equipment and readable medium for upgrading BMC and BIOS in matching manner

Info

Publication number: CN110427199B
Application number: CN201910561009.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 钟以冠; 刘成平; 郭锋
Original assignee: Suzhou Inspur Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou Inspur Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-06-26
Filing date: 2019-06-26
Publication date: 2022-08-02
Anticipated expiration: 2039-06-26
Also published as: CN110427199A

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for upgrading BMC and BIOS in a matching way, which comprises the following steps: setting a server automatic matching strategy of the BMC and the BIOS; acquiring the current versions of the BMC and the BIOS of the server at regular time, and judging whether an upgrading condition is met according to an automatic matching strategy; in response to the upgrade condition being met, upgrading one of the BMC and the BIOS according to the automatic matching strategy; and upgrading the other one of the BMC and the BIOS according to the upgraded BMC and BIOS. The invention also discloses a computer device and a readable storage medium. The method and the device for upgrading the BMC and the BIOS in a matching way can automatically upgrade the firmware of the server, ensure that the BMC version and the BIOS version of the server are optimally matched, and improve the running performance of the server.

Description

Method, equipment and readable medium for upgrading BMC and BIOS in matching manner

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of servers, and in particular, to a method, a device, and a readable medium for upgrading a BMC and a BIOS in a supporting manner.

Background

In the information age, servers are becoming more and more important, and management of servers is indispensable. The server firmware plays a very important role in the management of the server. With the increase and improvement of firmware functions, upgrading operations are often required for firmware systems.

In a traditional upgrading mode, a user needs to log in a BMC interface of a server or a in-band operating system and upload an upgrading file for upgrading. Under the condition that a plurality of servers are provided, one server is required to be operated, the upgrading is very troublesome, the BMC version and the BIOS version are often used in a matched mode, another firmware of a matched version needs to be manually updated after one firmware is updated, the operation is complex, and the use is inconvenient.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, an object of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for upgrading a BMC and a BIOS in a matching manner, where the method and the apparatus are mainly to perform automatic upgrade of the BMC or the BIOS on a server meeting a condition by configuring upgrade policies of the BMC and the BIOS in advance, and when a firmware is upgraded, automatically match another optimal firmware version, and upgrade the firmware by an automatic configuration policy, so as to improve the usability and reliability of the upgrade of the server firmware and reduce the labor operation and maintenance cost.

Based on the above object, an aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a method for upgrading a BMC and a BIOS in a matching manner, including the following steps: setting a server automatic matching strategy of the BMC and the BIOS; acquiring the current versions of the BMC and the BIOS of the server at regular time, and judging whether an upgrading condition is met according to an automatic matching strategy; in response to the upgrade condition being met, upgrading one of the BMC and the BIOS according to the automatic matching strategy; and upgrading the other one of the BMC and the BIOS according to the upgraded BMC and BIOS.

In some embodiments, the automatic matching policy comprises: and upgrading the BMC and the BIOS to the latest version or the version which is the most matched with the server or the fixed version.

In some embodiments, determining whether the upgrade condition is satisfied comprises: the current versions of the BMC and BIOS are compared to the versions in the firmware version maintenance list.

In some embodiments, upgrading the other of the BMC and the BIOS based on the upgraded BMC and BIOS includes: acquiring an upgraded version of one of BMC and BIOS; and matching the other of the BMC and the BIOS according to the version, finding out the optimal version and upgrading the other of the BMC and the BIOS to the optimal version.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: and checking whether the BMC and the BIOS are upgraded successfully.

In another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a computer device, including: at least one processor; and a memory storing computer instructions executable on the processor, the instructions being executable by the processor to perform the steps of: setting a server automatic matching strategy of the BMC and the BIOS; acquiring the current versions of the BMC and the BIOS of the server at regular time, and judging whether an upgrading condition is met according to an automatic matching strategy; in response to the upgrade condition being met, upgrading one of the BMC and the BIOS according to the automatic matching strategy; and upgrading the other of the BMC and the BIOS according to the upgraded BMC or BIOS.

In some embodiments, the steps further comprise: and checking whether the BMC and the BIOS are upgraded successfully.

In yet another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a computer-readable storage medium is also provided, which stores a computer program for executing the above method when executed by a processor.

The invention has the following beneficial technical effects: the upgrading strategy of BMC and BIOS is configured in advance, the BMC or BIOS is automatically upgraded for the server meeting the conditions, when one firmware is upgraded, the optimal firmware version is automatically matched, the firmware is upgraded through the automatic configuration strategy, the usability and the reliability of the upgrade of the server firmware are improved, and the labor operation and maintenance cost is reduced.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other embodiments can be obtained by using the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a method for upgrading a BMC and a BIOS in a matching manner according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for upgrading the BMC and the BIOS in a matching manner.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the following embodiments of the present invention are described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

It should be noted that all expressions using "first" and "second" in the embodiments of the present invention are used for distinguishing two entities with the same name but different names or different parameters, and it should be noted that "first" and "second" are merely for convenience of description and should not be construed as limitations of the embodiments of the present invention, and they are not described in any more detail in the following embodiments.

Based on the above purpose, the first aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides an embodiment of a method for upgrading a BMC and a BIOS in a matching manner. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an embodiment of a method for upgrading a BMC and a BIOS in a supporting manner according to the present invention. As shown in fig. 1, the embodiment of the present invention includes the following steps:

s1, setting a server automatic matching strategy of the BMC and the BIOS;

s2, acquiring the current versions of the BMC and the BIOS of the server at regular time, and judging whether the upgrading conditions are met according to the automatic matching strategy; and

s3, responding to the condition of meeting the upgrade, and upgrading one of BMC and BIOS according to the automatic matching strategy;

and S4, upgrading the other one of the BMC and the BIOS according to the upgraded BMC or BIOS.

BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) supports industry standard IPMI specifications that describe Management functions that have been built into the motherboard. These functions include: local and remote diagnostics, console support, configuration management, hardware management, troubleshooting, and the like. The BIOS (Basic Input Output System) is a set of programs that are fixed on a ROM chip on a main board in a computer, and stores the most important Basic Input and Output programs of the computer, a self-test program after power-on, and a System self-start program, and can read and write specific information set by the System from the CMOS. The primary function of the BIOS is to provide the lowest level, most direct hardware setup and control for the computer, and in addition, the BIOS provides some system parameters to the operating system.

This embodiment is implemented by using Python or Java. Firstly, configuring version libraries of firmware BMC and BIOS, and storing information such as BMC and BIOS upgrading files and configuration files of a server; and then setting the server to automatically match the strategy. In some embodiments, the automatic matching policy comprises: and upgrading the BMC and the BIOS to the latest version or the version which is the most matched with the server or the fixed version. The system generally sets up the BMC and the BIOS to be matched and upgraded to the latest version by default, and can also set the version to be set finally by a manual input mode. Different servers may be configured with different server firmware upgrade policies.

And acquiring the current versions of the BMC and the BIOS of the server at regular time, and judging whether the upgrading conditions are met. The current versions of the BMC and the BIOS may be acquired at regular intervals, and then compared with the versions in the firmware version maintenance list. If the current version is found not to be consistent with the version in the automatic matching strategy, matching upgrade can be carried out.

When both the BMC and the BIOS in the servers meet the upgrading conditions, upgrading tasks can be added, and then the servers in the upgrading tasks are upgraded in batches.

And upgrading one of the BMC and the BIOS according to the automatic matching strategy, and upgrading the other of the BMC and the BIOS according to the upgraded BMC and BIOS. For example, the BMC may be updated first according to the automatic matching policy, and then the BIOS may be updated according to the updated BMC; or the BIOS can be upgraded firstly according to the automatic matching strategy, and then the BMC can be upgraded according to the upgraded BIOS. The upgrading sequence of the BMC and the BIOS can be adjusted, and only the BMC and the BIOS need to be upgraded finally.

In some embodiments, upgrading the other of the BMC and the BIOS based on the upgraded BMC and BIOS includes: acquiring an upgraded version of one of BMC and BIOS; and matching the other of the BMC and the BIOS according to the version, finding out the optimal version and upgrading the other of the BMC and the BIOS to the optimal version. For example, the BMC may be upgraded to the version that is most matched with the server, and then the matching degrees of all BIOS versions and the version of the BMC may be calculated, and the BIOS with the highest matching degree is selected from the versions to be upgraded. Of course, in other embodiments, the BMC may be upgraded to the latest version or the fixed version, and then the BIOS may be upgraded according to the version of the BMC. Or, the BIOS may be upgraded to the version that matches the server best, the latest version, or a fixed version, and the BMC may be upgraded according to the version of the BIOS.

In some embodiments, the BMC and BIOS may also be upgraded to the latest version or the fixed version at the same time.

In some embodiments, after upgrading the BMC and BIOS, whether the BMC and BIOS are upgraded successfully can be checked to ensure that the firmware of the server is upgraded to the most appropriate version.

In some embodiments, the BMC and BIOS may fail the upgrade. When upgrading of the BMC and the BIOS fails, failure information can be collected, failure reasons can be determined, the failure reasons can be automatically solved, and upgrading is carried out again.

In some embodiments, after the upgrade of the BMC and the BIOS is successful, the other firmware of the server may be upgraded in a supporting manner according to the BMC and the BIOS.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method for upgrading a BMC and a BIOS in a supporting manner. As shown in fig. 2, beginning at block 101 and proceeding to block 102, a version library of BMC and BIOS is configured, which may store all BMC and BIOS upgrade files and configuration files of the server; proceeding next to block 103, a server auto-match policy is set, which may include multiple types, such as upgrading the BMC or BIOS to the latest version; then, the method advances to a block 104, and the current versions of the BMC and the BIOS of the server are obtained at regular time; then, the process proceeds to a block 105, whether an upgrade condition is met is judged, if the upgrade condition is met, the process proceeds to a block 106, and if the upgrade condition is not met, the process proceeds to a block 109, and the process is finished; block 106 is to upgrade one of the BMC and the BIOS according to the auto-match policy, and then proceed to block 107 to upgrade the other of the BMC and the BIOS according to the upgraded BMC and BIOS; then, the process proceeds to block 108, whether the BMC and the BIOS are successfully upgraded is determined, if the upgrade is successful, the process proceeds to block 109, the process is ended, and if the upgrade is failed, the process returns to block 106, and the BMC and the BIOS are upgraded again.

According to the embodiment, the upgrading strategies of the BMC and the BIOS are preset, the BMC or the BIOS is automatically upgraded for the server meeting the conditions, when one firmware is upgraded, the optimal firmware version is automatically matched, other firmware is automatically upgraded, manual operation is reduced, the firmware is upgraded through an automatic configuration strategy, the usability and the reliability of upgrading the firmware of the server are improved, and the manual operation and maintenance cost is reduced.

It should be particularly noted that, the steps in the foregoing embodiments of the method for upgrading a BMC and a BIOS may be mutually intersected, replaced, added, or deleted, so that these methods for upgrading a BMC and a BIOS through reasonable permutation and combination should also belong to the scope of the present invention, and should not limit the scope of the present invention to the embodiments.

In view of the above object, a second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a computer device, including: at least one processor; and a memory storing computer instructions executable on the processor, the instructions being executable by the processor to perform the steps of: s1, setting a server automatic matching strategy of the BMC and the BIOS; s2, acquiring the current versions of the BMC and the BIOS of the server at regular time, and judging whether the upgrading conditions are met according to the automatic matching strategy; s3, responding to the condition of meeting the upgrade, and upgrading one of BMC and BIOS according to the automatic matching strategy; and S4, upgrading the other one of the BMC and the BIOS according to the upgraded BMC and BIOS. In some embodiments, the automatic matching policy comprises: and upgrading the BMC and the BIOS to the latest version or the version which is the most matched with the server or the fixed version.

In some embodiments, upgrading the other of the BMC and BIOS based on the upgraded BMC and BIOS includes: acquiring an upgraded version of one of BMC and BIOS; and matching the other of the BMC and the BIOS according to the version, finding out the optimal version and upgrading the other of the BMC and the BIOS to the optimal version.

The invention also provides a computer readable storage medium storing a computer program which, when executed by a processor, performs the method as above.

Finally, it should be noted that, as one of ordinary skill in the art can appreciate that all or part of the processes of the methods of the above embodiments may be implemented by instructing relevant hardware by a computer program, and the program of the method for upgrading the BMC and the BIOS may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and when executed, may include the processes of the embodiments of the methods as described above. The storage medium of the program may be a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a Read Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), or the like. The embodiments of the computer program may achieve the same or similar effects as any of the above-described method embodiments.

Furthermore, the methods disclosed according to embodiments of the present invention may also be implemented as a computer program executed by a processor, which may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Which when executed by a processor performs the above-described functions defined in the methods disclosed in embodiments of the invention.

Further, the above method steps and system elements may also be implemented using a controller and a computer readable storage medium for storing a computer program for causing the controller to implement the functions of the above steps or elements.

Further, it should be appreciated that the computer-readable storage media (e.g., memory) herein can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. By way of example, and not limitation, nonvolatile memory can include Read Only Memory (ROM), Programmable ROM (PROM), Electrically Programmable ROM (EPROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM (EEPROM), or flash memory. Volatile memory can include Random Access Memory (RAM), which can act as external cache memory. By way of example and not limitation, RAM is available in a variety of forms such as synchronous RAM (DRAM), Dynamic RAM (DRAM), Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), Enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), and Direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM). The storage devices of the disclosed aspects are intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and other suitable types of memory.

Those of skill would further appreciate that the various illustrative logical blocks, modules, circuits, and algorithm steps described in connection with the disclosure herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, computer software, or combinations of both. To clearly illustrate this interchangeability of hardware and software, various illustrative components, blocks, modules, circuits, and steps have been described above generally in terms of their functionality. Whether such functionality is implemented as software or hardware depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the overall system. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the disclosed embodiments of the present invention.

The various illustrative logical blocks, modules, and circuits described in connection with the disclosure herein may be implemented or performed with the following components designed to perform the functions herein: a general purpose processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination of these components. A general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor may be any conventional processor, controller, microcontroller, or state machine. A processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices, e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP, and/or any other such configuration.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the disclosure herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in a combination of the two. A software module may reside in RAM memory, flash memory, ROM memory, EPROM memory, EEPROM memory, registers, hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor such the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. In the alternative, the storage medium may be integral to the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside in an ASIC. The ASIC may reside in a user terminal. In the alternative, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.

In one or more exemplary designs, the functions may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium. Computer-readable media includes both computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another. A storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by a general purpose or special purpose computer. By way of example, and not limitation, such computer-readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a general-purpose or special-purpose computer, or a general-purpose or special-purpose processor. Also, any connection is properly termed a computer-readable medium. For example, if the software is transmitted from a website, server, or other remote source using a coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave, then the coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, DSL, or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave are included in the definition of medium. Disk and disc, as used herein, includes Compact Disc (CD), laser disc, optical disc, Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), floppy disk, blu-ray disc where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, while discs reproduce data optically with lasers. Combinations of the above should also be included within the scope of computer-readable media.

The foregoing is an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, but it should be noted that various changes and modifications could be made herein without departing from the scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims. The functions, steps and/or actions of the method claims in accordance with the disclosed embodiments described herein need not be performed in any particular order. Furthermore, although elements of the disclosed embodiments of the invention may be described or claimed in the singular, the plural is contemplated unless limitation to the singular is explicitly stated.

It should be understood that, as used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly supports the exception. It should also be understood that "and/or" as used herein is meant to include any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

The numbers of the embodiments disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description, and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps of implementing the above embodiments may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by a program instructing relevant hardware, and the program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and the above-mentioned storage medium may be a read-only memory, a magnetic disk or an optical disk, etc.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: the discussion of any embodiment above is meant to be exemplary only, and is not intended to intimate that the scope of the disclosure, including the claims, of embodiments of the invention is limited to these examples; within the idea of an embodiment of the invention, also technical features in the above embodiment or in different embodiments may be combined and there are many other variations of the different aspects of the embodiments of the invention as described above, which are not provided in detail for the sake of brevity. Therefore, any omissions, modifications, substitutions, improvements, and the like that may be made without departing from the spirit and principles of the embodiments of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. A method for upgrading BMC and BIOS in a matching way is characterized by comprising the following steps:

setting a server automatic matching strategy of the BMC and the BIOS;

acquiring the current versions of the BMC and the BIOS of the server at regular time, and judging whether an upgrading condition is met according to the automatic matching strategy;

in response to the upgrade condition being met, upgrading one of the BMC and the BIOS according to the automatic matching strategy;

upgrading the other one of the BMC and the BIOS according to the upgraded BMC or BIOS;

wherein the upgrading the other of the BMC and the BIOS according to the upgraded BMC or BIOS comprises: acquiring an upgraded version of one of BMC and BIOS; and matching the other of the BMC and the BIOS according to the version, finding out the optimal version and upgrading the other of the BMC and the BIOS to the optimal version.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatic matching policy comprises:

and upgrading the BMC and the BIOS to the latest version or the version which is the most matched with the server or the fixed version.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining whether an upgrade condition is satisfied comprises:

the current versions of the BMC and BIOS are compared to the versions in the firmware version maintenance list.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising: and checking whether the BMC and the BIOS are upgraded successfully.

5. A computer device, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory storing computer instructions executable on the processor, the instructions being executable by the processor to implement the steps of:

setting a server automatic matching strategy of the BMC and the BIOS;

6. The computer device of claim 5, wherein the automatic matching policy comprises: and upgrading the BMC and the BIOS to the latest version or the version which is most matched with the server or the fixed version.

7. The computer device of claim 5, wherein the steps further comprise: and checking whether the BMC and the BIOS are upgraded successfully.

8. A computer-readable storage medium, in which a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, is adapted to carry out the method of any one of claims 1 to 4.