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Is it possible to see the date of last firmware install

Nathan Johnson

As the subject states, is it possible to find when the last firmware upgrade was installed?  We've been having a lot of quirky issues along with VPN performance issues and I'm trying to determine if they coincide with each other.  I've looked around in the CLI and can't find anything and was thinking it might be possible through the advanced shell.



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    I just did a search in the log using the current FW version.

    The admin part of the log shows the last firmware change including date and time.
    It's not the "installation" or upload date and time but time the version of the FW became active.

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    0 FormerMember

    Hi ,

    Thank you for reaching out to the Community! 

    From the Advanced Shell, run the following command: grep -i "BOOT_IMAGE" /log/syslog.log

    You will see the following log lines: 

    Sep 17 13:08:39 (none) user.notice kernel: [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=17_5_11_661 quiet ZD=30 SM=0 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8 console=ttyS0,9600n8
    Sep 21 09:29:28 (none) user.info kernel: [ 0.000000] Command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=17_5_14_714 zd=/dev/sda ro ro quiet console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8 

    The above log lines show that firmware from 17.5 MR11 to 17.5 MR14 was updated on September 21th. 

    When you update the firmware on the firewall, it auto reboots with the new firmware. It is logged under syslog.

    Thanks,

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    Peter, unfortunately the admin logs only go back a few weeks and what I'm looking for was sometime earlier in the year.

    Harsh, when I enter the command you suggested, it doesn't return anything (see snip below)

  • FormerMember
    0 FormerMember in reply to Nathan Johnson

    Hi ,

    Thank you for the update.

    If you do not see the output of that command, there is probably no entry in Syslog for "BOOt_IMAGE". 

    Can you check if there is anything in the syslog.log at all? 

    Thanks,

  • 0 in reply to FormerMember

    Yes, there's plenty of stuff in the log.