Bug ID 1280769: Fipsutil's fwcheck and fwupdate sub-commands show errors when run on R10920 and R5920 tenant.

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3

Fixed In:
17.1.1

Opened: Mar 24, 2023

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

When the two commands fwcheck and fwupdate are run, they will not be successful and throw error messages. bigip#fipsutil fwcheck ERROR: Failed to parse firmware version: CNN35XX-NFBE-FW-2.08-12 ERROR: Firmare version check failed. bigip#

Impact

No functional impact. Only ignorable error messages displayed.

Conditions

When the commands fwcheck and fwupdate are run on R10920 and R5920 fips tenant.

Workaround

Do not run these two commands on R10920 and R5920 fips tenant. To know the present firmware from tenant use "fipsutil info". To update the firmware on HSM card, do it from host system.

Fix Information

NA

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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