{"id":1306,"date":"2014-07-21T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2014-07-21T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T13:00:01","slug":"failure-to-communicate-with-cimc-on-cisco-ucs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/fixes\/failure-to-communicate-with-cimc-on-cisco-ucs","title":{"rendered":"Failure to communicate with CIMC on Cisco UCS"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\"km_67019_large[1]\"Recently unboxing a UCS 420 M3, I tried to boot the server and access the CIMC , however upon pressing F8 to boot into the CIMC console, it would display the CIMC briefly with some Errors about DNS and Hostnames , then show Failure to communicate with CIMC\u00a0<\/strong>then continue the normal boot procedure. I tried getting access to the CIMC through the BIOS ( Usually with the F8 key ) however this would not work either.<\/p>\r\n

In the end I had to Update the Bios and other features of the server to the latest version (6b) via steps below<\/p>\r\n

Download the HUU ISO file:<\/p>\r\n

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  1. <\/a> Navigate to the following URL: http:\/?\/?www.cisco.com\/?cisco\/?software\/?navigator.html<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n\t
  2. <\/a> In the middle column, click Servers \u2013 Unified Computing<\/span>.<\/li>\r\n\t
  3. <\/a> In the right-hand column, click Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Standalone Server Software<\/span>.<\/li>\r\n\t
  4. <\/a> Choose the name of your model of server in the right column.<\/li>\r\n\t
  5. <\/a> Click Unified Computing System (UCS) Server Firmware<\/span>.<\/li>\r\n\t
  6. <\/a> Choose the release number.<\/li>\r\n\t
  7. <\/a> Click Download Now<\/span> to download the ucs-server platform<\/var>-huu-version_number<\/var>.iso<\/span> file.<\/li>\r\n\t
  8. <\/a> Verify the information on the next page, and click Proceed With Download<\/span>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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