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flash-hpe-smartupdate-ignore-warnings

Let HPE SUM proceed past warnings during a block firmware update

When true, the hpe-firmware-flash task passes --ignore-warnings to smartupdate upgrade, so the update proceeds past warnings that would otherwise stop it. This includes the TPM warning on systems with a Trusted Platform Module enabled, low disk space, a pending iLO installation queue, and a system managed by HPE OneView.

When false (the default), SUM stops on a warning without installing anything and the task fails, showing the warning in the job log.

--ignore-warnings is the only warning-related switch that smartupdate upgrade accepts. Unlike the legacy SUM CLI, it has no separate TPM bypass switch, so the TPM warning cannot be bypassed on its own.

WARNING: updating the system ROM or iLO with a TPM enabled can change the TPM PCR measurements. Disk encryption keys sealed to the TPM (LUKS with TPM unlock, BitLocker) may then fail to unseal, locking the operating system out of its encrypted disks. Suspend or re-seal those keys before enabling this on such systems.

This does not affect hpe-firmware-flash-list, which already bypasses the TPM warning for system ROM and iLO packages.

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