{"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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1307 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/km_67019_large1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"km_67019_large[1]\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>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 <strong>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<p>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<p>Download the HUU ISO file:<\/p>\r\n<ol type=\"a\">\r\n\t<li><a name=\"task_A3B2806C424E491DB893C1A1007DF397__substep_033F4B6617804EBA9511B73CD4B5F588\"><\/a> Navigate to the following URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/cisco\/software\/navigator.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/?\/?www.cisco.com\/?cisco\/?software\/?navigator.html<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a name=\"task_A3B2806C424E491DB893C1A1007DF397__substep_99E364169CF4407C9EDC6D5993F7EB42\"><\/a> In the middle column, click <span class=\"uicontrol\"> Servers \u2013 Unified Computing<\/span>.<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a name=\"task_A3B2806C424E491DB893C1A1007DF397__substep_7F58F1A473F4458EA2D14FBAA1D1747C\"><\/a> In the right-hand column, click <span class=\"uicontrol\">Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Standalone Server Software<\/span>.<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a name=\"task_A3B2806C424E491DB893C1A1007DF397__substep_E94A0DAEF4B44AFBBC30C4A5927D940F\"><\/a> Choose the name of your model of server in the right column.<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a name=\"task_A3B2806C424E491DB893C1A1007DF397__substep_E1C85FB15ABB48FCA4C56CF64F46BC0E\"><\/a> Click <span class=\"uicontrol\">Unified Computing System (UCS) Server Firmware<\/span>.<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a name=\"task_A3B2806C424E491DB893C1A1007DF397__substep_70C1ADD3A9B6462AB7C9E807C8E41778\"><\/a> Choose the release number.<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a name=\"task_A3B2806C424E491DB893C1A1007DF397__substep_D8A3306F174D458B98EA188F5D9EEC09\"><\/a> Click <span class=\"uicontrol\">Download Now<\/span> to download the <span class=\"filepath\">ucs-<var class=\"varname\">server platform<\/var>-huu-<var class=\"varname\">version_number<\/var>.iso<\/span> file.<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a name=\"task_A3B2806C424E491DB893C1A1007DF397__substep_72FF2D2EB7A64CDAB5111650D1F5323D\"><\/a> Verify the information on the next page, and click <span class=\"uicontrol\">Proceed With Download<\/span>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[796,794,793,791,795,792],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixes","tag-c420-m3","tag-cimc","tag-cisco-integrated-management-controller","tag-cisico","tag-failure-to-communicate-with-cimc-on-cisco-ucs","tag-ucs-420-m3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}