Test Design of rflash python version

Test Design of rflash python version

Introduction

This document provides an overview of the activities that are planned to be conducted on the IBM Witherspoon Physical Machine Firmware updating support testing. This test plan is intended for the use of xCAT FVT team.

The test is against xCAT version 2.13.11. The build of xCAT will be picked up from the xcat.org And the build of the latest Firmware of Witherspoon machines are downloaded from following link.

pfd.austin.ibm.com/releasenotes/indexop910.html

Overview of xCAT FVT

Test Software Requirements

Operating System ：Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4

Other Softwares

xCAT 2.13.11

Test Hardware Requirements

MN: any machines with latest xcat installed
CN: Witherspoon node (p9)

xCAT Test Detail Section

Test environment preparation

• new OpenBMC python version rpm installation steps:

  • Use yum install gcc and python-devel.ppc64le:

    yum install -y gcc python-devel.ppc64le 
    

  • Install pip refer to https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/. Use pip to install gevent, greenlet, certifi, chardet, idna, urllib3, requests:

    pip install gevent greenlet certifi chardet idna urllib3 requests
    

  • Download and install xCAT-openbmc-py-2.13.10-snap201801250418.noarch.rpm:

    wget http://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/beta/xCAT-openbmc-py-2.13.10-snap201801250418.noarch.rpm
    yum localinstall -y xCAT-openbmc-py-2.13.10-snap201801250418.noarch.rpm
    

  • enable OpenBMC python version:

    export XCAT_OPENBMC_PYTHON=YES
    

Test cases

Test case 1

Check if rflash -c/--check could give out the firmware of node

1. Define node. The node's definition should have bmc's ip. BMC should work correctly.
2. Run rflash -c or rflash --check.
3. Expected output should be the nodes' firmware level.