In this post, I show how I update my Microserver Gen8 iLO4 version. One of the ways to do it is via command line but i decided to use the web interface (the most common way).
New version
At the time of writing this, the version i had was iLO 2.50 (Sep 23 2016) and the new version is the 2.70 (May 14 2019). This version comes with a new feature: HTML5 Remote Console.
Download the software
Enter the following link: http://www.hpe.com/support/iLO4
Download for example the Windows version (I downloaded the one in the picture below) that is a cp038075.exe file.
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-1.png)
Extract
Run it to extract the contents…
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-2.png)
One of the extracted files is ilo4_270.bin that will be the one that must be uploaded in the web interface:
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-3.png)
Update
So, enter your iLO console, Firmware and in the file input box, select the ilo4_270.bin file
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-4.png)
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-5.png)
Confirm the warning message
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-6.png)
And wait until the update process finishes…
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-7.png)
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-8.png)
Check
Once finished, enter again your credentials in the iLO login page, and check the check the update process finished correctly. Take a look at the iLO events (“Firmware upgrade to version 2.70” message should appear).
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-9.png)
… firmware information confirming the current version is 2.70
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-10.png)
Test HTML5 console
And finally, go the Remote Console section and enjoy your HTML5 based console!
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-11.png)
![](https://somoit.net/content/images/2019/07/home-server-update-ilo4-firmware-html5-console-12.png)