Document Revision History | NVIDIA BlueField BMC Software

Rev v25.04 – April 30, 2025

Updated:

Section "Data Port Module High Power Consumption Notification"
Section "Data Port Module Thermal 'Going High' Notification"
Section "Data Port Module Thermal 'Going Low' Notification"
Section "Reset Control Using IPMI"
Section "SDR Sensor List"
Section "Getting List of Support Sensors"

Added:

Section "Voltage Sensors"
Section "Power Sensors"
Section "Power Deviation Sensors"
Section "PCIe Correctable Error"
Section "PCIe Uncorrectable Error"
Section "PCIe Fatal Error"
Section "ATX Power Error"
Section "Getting Measurements"
Section "RAS PCIe Error"
Section "ATX Power Error"
Page "DPU BMC SPDM Attestation via Redfish"
Section "Deleting Static IPv4 Address"
Section "Adding IPv4 Address"
Section "Root CA Management Commands"

Rev v25.01 – February 25, 2025

Updates to hierarchy under BlueField Management and BMC Management sections.

Rev v25.01 – February 6, 2025

Added:

Page "Appendix - BlueField Management in NIC Mode"

Updated:

Page ""
Page "BlueField Modes of Operation Configuration"
Page "Deploying BlueField Software Using BFB from BMC"

Rev v24.10-LTSU1 FUR – January 02, 2025

Added:

Page "Unsupported BMC Functionalities in NIC Mode"

Rev v24.10-LTSU1 – December 06, 2024

Added:

Section "RAS Logging"

Updated:

Section "Enabling Serial Redirect Mode to Run from Arm or BMC OS"
Section "Getting 3-port Switch Ports Mode"
Section "Configuring Router IPv6 Mode"
Section "Configuring IPv6 Static Router IP"
Section "Configuring IPv6 Static Router MAC"

Rev v24.10 – October 31, 2024

Added:

Section "BIOS Debug Mode"
Sensor ddr_temp to section "Temperature Sensors"
Sensor ddr_temp to section "SDR Sensor List"
Informational note to page "BlueField Arm State"
Section "Data Port Module Events"
Section "Arm Frequency Change Redfish System Command"
Section "Data Port Module Temperature Going High"
Section "Data Port Module Temperature Going Low"

Updated:

Section "Enabling/Disabling IPv6 DHCP"
Section "Serial Over LAN"
Section "Arm Frequency Change"
Section "BMC FRUs"
Notes about the size of a single BMC on "BMC and BlueField Logs"

Rev v24.07 – August 14, 2024

Added:

Page "Guest Tunnel"
Page "Rsyslog"
Section "Initial Provisioning of Golden Image to BMC"
Section "Retrieving Golden Image Version Information"
Section "Retrieving Golden Image Version Information Using Redfish"

Updated:

Section "Redfish Management Interface"
Diagram on page "CEC and BMC Firmware Operations"
Multipart update with MultipartHttpPushUri command in section "Trigger Secure Firmware Update"
Section "ForceUpdate"
Section "Updating BMC"
Section "Updating CEC"
Section "Installing BFB"
Section "Changing Default UEFI Password Using Redfish"
Section "Retrieve Information on Pending Settings"
Section "FRU Reading IPMI Commands"
Section "Hard Rebooting BlueField"
Section "Updating BMC"
Section "RAS Errors"
Section "System Commands"
Page "BlueField Host Network Interface"

Rev v24.04 – May 05, 2024

Added:

Page "BlueField Host Network Interface"
Section "LLDP in Redfish"
Page "BlueField Arm State"
Section "Product Instance Identifier"
Section "CEC Activation and Reset" under "BMC and CEC Firmware Update"
Section "BMC DPU Information"

Updated:

Section "Installing BFB"
Section "FRU Reading IPMI Commands"

Rev v24.01 – February 08, 2024

Added:

Section "Monitoring DPU OS Shutdown from BMC"
Section "Example for CSR Generation, Certificate Creation and Replacement"
Page "BlueField Modes of Operation Configuration"
Section "Redfish Event Log"
Cmds 0xa8 0x00 and 0xa8 0x01 to "NVIDIA OEM Commands"

Updated:

Rev v23.10 – November 30, 2023

Added:

Section "Power Capping"
Section "DPU Chassis"
Section "BlueField Console Log"
Section "Viewing Currently Installed CA Certificates"
Section "CA Certificates Collection Modification"
Section "Enable RShim on DPU BMC"
Section "Network Management Redfish Commands"
Section "CEC Update" under "BMC and CEC Firmware Update"
Section "OOB Network 3-Port Switch Control"
Appendix "Provisioning Software Upgrade Flow"

Updated:

Rev v23.09 – September 20, 2023

Added:

Section "System Inventory"
Section "DPU Chassis"
Section "NIC Subsystem Management"
Section "Table of Common Redfish Commands"

Updated:

Section "System FRU"
Section "System Logs"
Section "List of IPMI Supported FRUs"
Section "Boot Configuration"
Section "BIOS Secure Boot Configuration"
Section "BIOS Configuration"
Section "Reset Control"

Rev v23.07 – August 10, 2023

Added:

Section "Changing Default Password"
Section "Account Service"
Section "Configuring BIOS Secure Boot"
Section "Configuring BIOS"
Section "Redfish Certificate Management"
The commands 0x32 0x97 and 0x32 0x98 to "NVIDIA Custom Commands"

Updated:

Note in section "Network Protocol Support"
Section "Boot Configuration"
Section "Installing BFB"
Section "BMC and CEC Firmware Update" and its subsections

Rev v23.04 – May 17, 2023

Added:

Figure "NVIDIA® BlueField®-3 BMC Connector" to section "BMC Console Interface"
Section "SEL Messages"
Section "Updating BMC and Glacier Firmware with Vendor Field Mode" which is relevant for NVIDIA® BlueField®-3 DPU only
Page "Serial Redirect Mode"
Section "BlueField BMC Redfish Triggers"
Command 0x32 0x92 and 0x32 0x93 to "NVIDIA Custom Commands" table

Updated:

Section "BMC Management Interface" with new password requirements
Section "Sensor Data Record (SDR) Repository"
Link status codes to the p0_link and p1_link sensors in section "List of IPMI Supported Sensors"
Section "BMC and CEC Firmware Update"

Rev 2.8.2-34 – October 21, 2022

Added:

Page "Vendor Field Mode"
Section "DPU Reset"

Updated:

Section "Boot Configuration" with note on DPU boot override setting

Rev 2.8.2 – June 01, 2022

Updated:

NIC thermal sensors line in table under section "SDR Entry List"

Rev 2.8.2 – April 04, 2022

Updated:

Page "NVIDIA OEM Commands"

Last updated: April 12, 2025