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Cisco UCS C Rack version CIMC issue with adobe flash player end of life

 


Issue: can not open CIMC in the browser due to Adobe Flash no longer supported

it affecting firmware ver 2.x

Workaround:

Uninstall current flash and Firefox, use flash_player 22.exe with Firefox ver 45

You can download it from here 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oSoNuoCevCx00tQfT0eJLwaBEegmWJwE

next step:  upgrade the firmware to ver3.x above

NOTE: 2.0.4c and above you should be able to upgrade to 3.0.3f or 3.0.4 easily then you can goto 4.0 or 4.1 as required

Don't upgrade to 3.0.3a, this version have a bug

ver 3.x above using HTML5

After firmware upgraded: you need to download and install the latest Firefox that support HTML5

Firmware upgrade matrix

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw/CIMC-Upgrade-Downgrade-Matrix/index.html

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Workaround 2:

Run power shell script on FE laptop:

Change IP, username and password on the script, before you run it

Script:

$cimcIP = "10.20.100.100"

$cimcUsername = "admin"

$cimcPassword = "password"


[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::ServerCertificateValidationCallback = {$true}

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12


$Auth = @{uri = "https://$cimcIP/nuova";

                   Method = 'POST';

   Body = "<aaaLogin inName='$cimcUsername' inPassword='$cimcPassword'></aaaLogin>";

}


[xml]$AuthXML = Invoke-WebRequest @Auth -UseBasicParsing


$AuthCookie = $AuthXML.aaaLogin.outCookie


$GetComputeAuthTokens = @{uri = "https://$cimcIP/nuova";

                   Method = 'POST';

   Body = "<aaaGetComputeAuthTokens cookie='$AuthCookie'/>";

}


[xml]$GetComputeAuthTokensXML = Invoke-WebRequest @GetComputeAuthTokens -UseBasicParsing


$Token = $GetComputeAuthTokensXML.aaaGetComputeAuthTokens.outTokens -replace ",", "&tkn2="


$KVMurl = "https://$cimcIP/kvm.jnlp?cimcAddr=$cimcIP&cimcName=KVM&tkn1=$Token"

javaws "https://$cimcIP/kvm.jnlp?cimcAddr=$cimcIP&cimcName=KVM&tkn1=$Token"

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Workaround 3

upgrade using CLI

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw/cli/config/guide/4_0/b_Cisco_UCS_C-Series_CLI_Configuration_Guide_40/b_Cisco_UCS_C-Series_CLI_Configuration_Guide_40_chapter_01110.html#task_25869FBB5C9D41A597D17912DAF1BCFD

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Workaround 4

https://www.maxthon.com/download/previous-version-browser-free-download/

Download Maxthon Cloud Browser

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