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How to check BIOS and BMC Version

How to check the BIOS and BMC versionTable of contents

Check BIOS version
Check BMC version
Create Shell Script
JavaScript

1. Check BIOS version

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Using the “dmidecode” command

# dmidecode -t bios | egrep -i "version|date"
Version: 0.11
Release Date: 04/20/2022# dmidecode -s bios-version
0.11# dmidecode -s bios-release-date
04/20/2022
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Using the “curl” command

# curl -s -k -u bmc_user:bmc_user_password -X GET https://<BMC-IP-Address>/redfish/v1/UpdateService/FirmwareInventory/BIOS | python -m json.tool | grep -i version
"Version": "00.11.0000"
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2. Check BMC version

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Using the “ipmitool” command

# ipmitool mc info | egrep -i "firmware" | grep -iv "aux"
Firmware Revision : 0.11# cat /sys/class/ipmi/ipmi0/device/bmc/firmware_revision
0.11
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Using the “curl” command

# curl -s -k -u bmc_user:bmc_user_password -X GET https://<BMC-IP-Address>/redfish/v1/UpdateService/FirmwareInventory/BMC | python -m json.tool | grep -i version
"Version": "0.11.0"
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3. Create Shell Script

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https://github.com/JackKimUSA/linux

# vim check_bios_bmc.sh
#!/bin/bashprintf "%-20s" "BIOS_Ver"
printf "%-20s" "BIOS_Date"
printf "%-10s" "BMC_Ver"
printf "\n"printf "%-20s" "$(dmidecode -s bios-version)"
printf "%-20s" "$(dmidecode -s bios-release-date)"
printf "%-10s" "$(cat /sys/class/ipmi/ipmi0/device/bmc/firmware_revision)"
printf "\n"# sh check_bios_bmc.sh
BIOS_Ver BIOS_Date BMC_Ver
0.11 04/20/2022 0.11
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