The following procedure describes how to perform a comparison
of the installed versions of firmware on a local system with the latest
versions of firmware available on the Web using removable media.
Before you begin
Prerequisite: The local system
must have Internet access.
Procedure
- Insert the media into the system, and if necessary, mount
the removable media.
- From a command line, change to the directory for the removable
media.
- Enter the following command to collect system information:
ibm_utl_dsa_v.r.m_portable_plaform -ux [-x] [-v] [-text]
where v.r.m is
the version of Dynamic System Analysis, and
platform is the supported operating system.
When the comparison
is finished, the analysis is written to a compressed CIM-XML output
file by default. You can also create HTML output by specifying the -v option
and ASCII text output by specifying the -text option.
If you specify the -x option, compressed CIM-XML
output is not created, and you must specify the -v or -text option,
or both.
Note: Internet access is required for
the -ux option.