Supermicro Update Manager (SUM)

Supermicro Update Manager (SUM) is used for managing and configuring the BIOS/BMC firmware for Supermicro X10 generation motherboards and above. As a CLI (Command Line Interface) utility, SUM is able to execute parallel commands from a centralized management server. Two channels are available for management: the OOB (Out-of-Band) channel for communication through the BMC/IPMI interface, and the In-Band channel for communication through the local system interfaces. Through the OOB channel, most management commands can be executed independently of the OS on the managed system and even without OS installed. SUM supports Linux, ARM Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD. Thin Agent Service (TAS) is required for some functions.

Licensing: SFT-DCMS-SINGLE or SFT-OOB-LIC is required for each target node.

Features

  • Key Management
    • Activate/Query Product Keys
  • System Checks
    • OOB Support
    • Asset Information
    • System Utilization2
    • Sensor Data
    • Service Calls (License: SFT-DCMS-SINGLE and SFT-DCMS-SVC-KEY)
    • Memory PFA6
    • Memory Health6
    • Intel On-Demand Capabilities6,7
  • BIOS Management
    • Root-of-Trust (RoT) Management1
    • Update BIOS Firmware
    • BIOS Information
    • Get Current/Default BIOS Settings3
    • Change BIOS settings
    • Get/Change/Edit DMI Information
    • Set BIOS password
  • BMC Management
    • Get/Set Lockdown Mode1
    • Root-of-Trust (RoT) Management1
    • Update BMC Firmware
    • BMC Information
    • Get/Change BMC Configuration
    • Set BMC password
  • Event Log Management
    • Get/Clear System Event Logs
    • Get/Clear Maintenance Event logs
    • Get crash dump1
  • GPU Management
    • Get GPU Information1
  • CPLD Management
    • Update MB CPLD Firmware
    • Get CPLD Information
  • Storage Management (supports only 3108 RAID cards)
    • Erase RAID HDD1,4
    • Erase Disk1
    • Update RAID Controller Firmware1,5
    • RAID Controller Information1
    • Get/Change RAID Configuration1,5
    • Update PMem Firmware1
    • PMem Information
    • SATA Information
    • NVMe Information1
  • CMM Management
    • Update CMM Firmware
    • CMM Information
    • Get/Change CMM Configuration
    • Set CMM Password
    • Update BBP Firmware
    • BBP information
    • Get/Set Blade Power Status
  • Applications
    • Mount/Unmount ISO/Floppy image
    • Raw Command
    • Get/Set USB Access Mode1
    • Get/Set Server UID
    • Set HTTP boot
  • TPM Management
    • Provision TPM
    • Get TPM information
  • PSU Management
    • Get PSU information
    • Get/Set Power Status
  • NIC Management (only supports PLDM devices)
    • Get AOC NIC information1
    • Update AOC NIC FW1
  1. License: SFT-DCMS-SINGLE
  2. TAS required
  3. Supports a text-based user interface (TUI) to make editing BIOS settings intuitive and user-friendly, providing nice visibility and a lower learning curve.
  4. Only 3108 RAID controller
  5. For X11 platforms, the command only supports Broadcom 3108 RAID controller. For X12 and later platforms, the command supports Broadcom 3008, 3108, 3908, 3916 and Marvell SE9230 RAID controllers.
  6. Intel 4th Gen Xeon® Scalable processors and later CPUs
  7. Intel LAC Key required. Please contact Supermicro

System Requirements

Managed System Hardware

  • X10 and later platforms

Operating System

  • Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 Update 3 (x86_64) or later
  • Linux: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (x86_64) or later
  • Linux: Debian 7 (x86_64) or later
  • Windows: Windows Server 2008 (x64) or later
  • FreeBSD: FreeBSD 7.1 (x86_64) or later

 
System Architecture

SUM UEFI

The Supermicro Update Manager UEFI version (SUM UEFI) is used to locally manage the system BIOS/BMC and update BIOS/BMC firmware image under EFI shell on X12/H12 and later platforms except H12 non-RoT systems.

FS1:\_\0724\> SUM.efi -u ADMIN -p ADMIN -I redfish_hi -c UpdateBmc --file ..\SMT
_X12AST2500_ROT-RSA4K_002308d.bin
Supermicro Update Manager (for UEFI BIOS) 1.00 (2020/07/24) (UEFI)
Copyright(C) 2013-2020 Super Micro Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.

Status: Start updating BMC for 169.254.3.254

************************************WARNING************************************
    Do not remove AC power from the server.
*******************************************************************************


Uploading FW ...................................................................
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..............................................................................Do
ne

Updating FW >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Status: BMC is upd
ated for 169.254.3.254

Update Complete, Please wait for BMC reboot, about 6 mins

...............................................................................

Features

  • BIOS Management
    • BIOS Firmware Update
    • BIOS Information
    • Get/Change/Edit DMI Information*
    • Root-of-Trust (RoT) Management
  • BMC Management
    • BMC Firmware Update
    • BMC Information
    • Root-of-Trust (RoT) Management
    • OEM RAW Command
  • CPLD Management
    • MB CPLD Firmware Update
    • CPLD Information

* License: SFT-OOB-LIC

System Requirements

Managed System Hardware

  • X12/H12 and later platforms except H12 non-RoT systems

Operating System

  • EFI shell

Resources

For additional information, contact
Email: support@supermicro.com
Twitter: @Supermicro_SW