
RELEASE NOTES FOR FRUSDR UTILITY
Version 10.0 Build 6
February 05,2011


Copyright (c) 2011 Intel Corporation.

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Contents
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1. Introduction

2. Supported Platforms

3. Supported Operating Systems

4. Pre-requisites

5. Installation and Un-installation (WinPE)

6. Installation and Un-installation (UEFI)

7. Usage

8. Known Issues

9. Unsupported Features

10. Changes since the previous release

11. Legal Information


1. Introduction

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FRUSDR is used for updating the FRU(Field Replacable Unit) ,SDR (Sensor Data Record) of various miccro-controllers on a given platform through the use of platform-specific CFG,FRU and SDR 
files.The FRUSDR Utility communicates with other controllers on the IPMB. This Utility will display the details of the different areas like SDR Area , FRU Area and SMBIOS Area of the Server.  


2. Supported Platforms

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    S1200BT platform series.


3. Supported Operating Systems

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    Microsoft WinPE 2.0,WinPE 2.1 and WinPE 3.0
    UEFI 2.0


4. Pre-requisites

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   1. Boot to the appropriate WinPE (2.0 or 2.1 or 3.0) Environment OR UEFI 2.0.
   
   
5. Installation and Un-installation (WinPE)

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   Installation:

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     1. Copy the compressed ZIP file into your local directory (e.g. C:\FRUSDR).

     2. Unzip the folder.

     3. There will be ReleaseNotes.txt and folders named drivers, win_x86, win_x64.  

     4. Go to drivers folder and you can find a win folder and inside win folder, you will find two 	folder   called x86 and x64. Choose appropriate folder depends on the Operating System and 	execute the Install.cmd command.

     5. Go to win_x86 or win_x64 folder based on the operating system and you can find 	frusdr.exe,imbapi.dll and msipmi.dll. 

   Uninstallation:

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     1. To uninstall FRUSDR utility, manually delete the contents of the directory where the 

        utility present.

     2. To uninstall the drivers, please follow this path : drivers->win and choose the x86 or x64 depends on the Operating system and run the uninstall.cmd.


6. Installation and Un-installation (UEFI)

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   Installation:

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   1. Unzip the related zip file on any windows machine and take the folder copy to any external media.

   2. Connect the external media to system.

   3. Go to the directory where frusdr.efi is present in the external media

   4. Run frusdr.efi -h for usage.

   Uninstallation:
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   1. To uninstall FRUSDR utility, manually delete the contents of the directory where the utility is present.
    

7. Usage

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   The following is the procedure to execute the FRUSDR utility:

      The FRUSDR can be run as a command-line application for some of the actions that

      it performs, including updating the Firmware of BMC,HSC and ME from either binary or hex file.


		frusdr <switch> [File Name] 


      a. To view the command-line help:


                frusdr /h   


      b. Command Line Syntax:

	Usage:  FRUSDR 		 

        /? or /h              Displays usage information. 		 

        /d {smb,fru,sdr}      Only displays requested area.	

        /cfg filename.cfg     Uses custom CFG file. 		 


	This utility must be run from a system executing WinPE.		 

	Upon completing the programming of the FRU and SDR areas,		 

	the server should be rebooted. For IPMI 1.0 compliant 		 

	systems the SDR repository should be programmed before the 

	FRU areas. IPMI 1.5 and IPMI 2.0 systems do not have this		 	

	requirement. For pre-IPMI 1.0 platforms, programming the BMC FRU

	clears the SDR repository, therefore the SDR repository		 	

	must be reprogrammed.		 


Note: Users may alternatively use a '-' instead of the '/'."}

* In place of '/', user can use '-' also.


8. Known Issues

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 1. The number of characters for the asset tag field should not exceed 25. This will corrupt the FRU data and the FRU needs to be 
    updated using the "/fru" command. This will be fixed in the future release of the utility.

 3. During Fan signal detection, the utility currently displays the FAN TACH reading on the screen. This will be 
    removed in the next release.

 4. The user needs to enable the "Plug and Play BMC" setting in the BIOS, in order to enable the MS IPMI driver in winPE. Otherwise the utility will error out.


9. Unsupported Features

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 None.


10. Changes since the previous release

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 Fixed the issues raised on the previous release.


11. Legal Information

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                               LEGAL INFORMATION

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