Peripheral device firmware update using rest over IPMI interface firmware update module
Technologies are described herein for a representational state transfer (“REST” or “RESTful”) over IPMI interface for firmware to BMC communication and applications thereof. These applications include, but are not limited to, remote firmware configuration, firmware updates, peripheral device firmware updates, provision of management information such as system inventory data, cloning and batch migration of firmware configuration settings, and firmware integrity monitoring. This functionality can be provided in a way that enables communication between BMCs and firmware to utilize modern manageability interfaces while maintaining backward compatibility with previous IPMI implementations.
1. A computer-implemented method for updating a firmware of a peripheral device of a computing system, comprising:
transmitting a request for a firmware update instruction for the peripheral device from a firmware of the computing system to a baseboard management controller (BMC) over a representational state transfer (REST) over intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) interface;
identifying a location of a peripheral device firmware image transmitted from the BMC to the firmware of the computing system using original equipment manufacturer (OEM) IPMI commands containing REST Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests;
retrieving, by way of the firmware of the computing system, the peripheral device firmware image from the location of the peripheral device firmware image identified by data provided by the BMC; and
updating, by way of a firmware update module of the firmware, the firmware of the peripheral device using the peripheral device firmware image.
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the peripheral device comprises a PCIe device, and wherein the device firmware of the peripheral device comprises a PCIe firmware.
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the BMC provides the peripheral device firmware image to the firmware update module.
4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the location of the peripheral device firmware image is responsive to receiving the request at the BMC.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the location of the peripheral device firmware image comprises identifying non-standard data stored in a standard property.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the standard property comprises a property for identifying a location of a boot device.
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the location of the peripheral device firmware image is expressed using a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format based on an Open Data Protocol (OData).
8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by a processor of a computing system, cause the processor to:
transmit a request for a firmware update instruction for a peripheral device from a firmware of the computing system to a baseboard management controller (BMC) over a representational state transfer (REST) over intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) interface;
identify a location of a peripheral device firmware image transmitted from the BMC to the firmware of the peripheral device using original equipment manufacturer (OEM) IPMI commands containing REST Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests;
retrieve, by way of the firmware of the computing system, the peripheral device firmware image from the location of the peripheral device firmware image identified by data provided by the BMC; and
update, by way of a firmware update module of the firmware, the firmware of the peripheral device using the peripheral device firmware image.
9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , wherein the peripheral device comprises a PCIe device, and wherein the device firmware of the peripheral device comprises a PCIe firmware.
10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , having further instructions stored thereupon to cause the BMC to provide the peripheral device firmware image to the firmware update module.
11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , having further instructions stored thereupon to cause wherein the processor to identify the location of the peripheral device firmware image by identifying non-standard data stored in a standard property.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , having further instructions stored thereupon to cause the processor to identify the location of the peripheral device firmware image comprises non-standard data stored in a standard property.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the standard property comprises a property for identifying a location of a boot device.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , having further instructions stored thereupon to cause the processor to identify the location of the peripheral device firmware image using a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format based on an Open Data Protocol (OData).
15. A computing system, comprising:
one or more processors;
a baseboard management controller (BMC); and
at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to:
transmit a request for a firmware update instruction for a peripheral device from a firmware of the computing system to a baseboard management controller (BMC) over a representational state transfer (REST) over intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) interface;
identify a location of a peripheral device firmware image transmitted from the BMC to the firmware of the computing system using original equipment manufacturer (OEM) IPMI commands containing REST Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests;
retrieve, by way of the firmware of the computing system, the peripheral device firmware image from the location of the peripheral device firmware image identified by data provided by the BMC; and
update, by way of a firmware update module of the firmware, the firmware of the peripheral device using the peripheral device firmware image.
16. The computing system of claim 15 , wherein the peripheral device comprises a PCIe device, and wherein the device firmware of the peripheral device comprises a PCIe firmware.
17. The computing system of claim 15 , wherein the BMC provides the peripheral device firmware image to the firmware update module.
18. The computing system of claim 15 , wherein identifying the location of the peripheral device firmware image is responsive to receiving the request at the BMC.
19. The computing system of claim 15 , wherein identifying the location of the peripheral device firmware image comprises identifying non-standard data stored in a standard property.
20. The computing system of claim 19 , wherein the standard property comprises a property for identifying a location of a boot device.