PowerSwitch: OS10: How to check switch ONIE and BIOS versions

Summary: The purpose of this article is to provide instructions on how to verify what BIOS and ONIE versions are installed in the switch before updating OS10.

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Instructions

To check what BIOS version the switch is running, issue the OS10 command: show system

OS10# show system

Node Id              : 1
MAC                  : f0:d4:e2:36:9e:cb
Number of MACs       : 128
Up Time              : 22:01:01
Voltage              : 12   Volts
Current              : 4   Amps
Power                : 52  Watts


-- Unit 1 --
Status                     : up
System Identifier          : 1
Down Reason                : user-triggered
Digital Optical Monitoring : disable
System Location LED        : off
Required Type              : S4112F
Current Type               : S4112F
Hardware Revision          : A04
Software Version           : 10.5.2.0P1
Physical Ports             : 12x10GbE, 3x100GbE
BIOS                          : 3.33.0.1-7   
System CPLD                   : 1.1          
Master CPLD                   : 0.2


To verify if the switch is up to date on the BIOS and ONIE versions, check the Dell Support website. Reference the service tag or switch model.

Note: In current versions of OS10 the PCIe, BIOS, BMC, Firmware Updater, ONIE, and SSD versions are all present in the output of "show system". Example below:

OS10# show system

Node Id              : 1
MAC                  : c8:f7:50:f0:ae:41
Number of MACs       : 256
Up Time              : 5 days 05:30:03
DiagOS               : 3.00.3.41-2
PCIe Version         : 2.6

-- Unit 1 --
Status                     : up
System Identifier          : 1
Down Reason                : unknown
Digital Optical Monitoring : disable
System Location LED        : off
Required Type              : S5248F
Current Type               : S5248F
Hardware Revision          : A01
Software Version           : 10.6.0.1
Physical Ports             : 48x25GbE, 4x100GbE, 2x200GbE
BIOS                          :   3.40.0.9-17                           
BMC                           :   1.08                                  
Firmware Updater              :   3.40.5.1-26                           
ONIE                          :   3.40.1.1-9                            
SSD                           :   L20B12                                
OCORE-FPGA@pci_0000_04_00.0   :   3.4                                   
System CPLD                   : 0.9                                     
Secondary CPLD 1              : 1.0                                     
Secondary CPLD 2              : 1.0                                     
Secondary CPLD 3              : 0.0                                     
Secondary CPLD 4              : 0.0  

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To check the ONIE version on the switch on older versions of OS10, issue the command: system "/mnt/onie-boot/onie/tools/bin/onie-version"

OS10# system "/mnt/onie-boot/onie/tools/bin/onie-version"
ONIE version        : 3.40.1.1-6
ONIE vendor_id      : 674
ONIE build_machine  : dellemc_s5200_c3538
ONIE machine_rev    : 0
ONIE arch           : x86_64
ONIE build_platform : x86_64-dellemc_s5200_c3538-r0
ONIE config_version : 1
ONIE build_date     : 2018-11-13T23:24-08:00
ONIE partition_type : gpt
ONIE kernel_version : 4.9.30
ONIE firmware       : auto
ONIE switch_asic    : bcm
ONIE skip_ethmgmt_macs: no
ONIE grub_image_name: grubx64.efi
ONIE uefi_boot_loader: grubx64.efi
ONIE uefi_arch      : x64

Affected Products

MX Series, E Series, SmartFabric OS10 Software
Article Properties
Article Number: 000190639
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 01 يوليو 2026
Version:  4
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