Replacing the Supervisor Engine

Chapter 7 Maintaining the Cisco Catalyst 5500 Multiswitch Router

Replacing Hardware Components

Step 4 Grasp the handle of the module with one hand and place your other hand under the carrier to support and guide the module out of the slot. Avoid touching the module.

Step 5 Carefully pull the module straight out of the slot, keeping your other hand under the carrier to guide it. Keep the module at a 90-degree orientation to the backplane.

Step 6 Place the removed module on an antistatic mat or antistatic foam.

Step 7 If the slot is to remain empty, install a module filler plate to keep dust out of the chassis and to maintain proper airflow through the module compartment.

Caution Always install a switching module filler plate in empty switching module slots to maintain the proper flow of cooling air across the modules.

Note When you remove and replace the supervisor engine, the system provides status messages on the console screen. The messages are for information only. Enter the show system and show module commands to view specific information. For additional information, refer to the Catalyst 5000 Series Software Configuration Guide and the Catalyst 5000 Series Command Reference. Also, refer to the Preface for a description of Cisco Connection Online (CCO).

To replace the supervisor engine, perform the following steps. Note that the supervisor engine must go in slot 1 and the redundant supervisor engine in slot 2.

Step 1 Remove the module filler plate, if any.

Step 2 Grasp the handle of the module with one hand and carefully align the module with the slot, keeping your other hand under the carrier to support it. Keep the module at a 90-degree orientation to the backplane.

Step 3 Carefully push the module straight into the slot, keeping one hand under the carrier to guide it. Avoid touching the module.

Step 4 Make sure that the ejector levers are pushed in, holding the module to the backplane connector. Step 5 Use a screwdriver to tighten the captive installation screws at the left and right sides of the module. Step 6 Reattach network interface cables to the module ports.

Using Flash Memory (PCMCIA) Cards (Supervisor Engine III)

The Flash memory (PCMCIA) card slots on the front panel of Supervisor Engine III are for additional PCMCIA-based Flash memory. You can use this Flash memory to store and run Cisco IOS images, or to serve as an I/O device. Occasionally, it might be necessary to remove and replace Flash memory cards; however, removing Flash memory cards is not required and is not recommended after the cards are installed in the slots.

Supervisor Engine III has two PCMCIA slots: slot 0 (bottom) and slot 1 (top). The following procedure is generic and can be used for a Flash memory card in either slot position.

Cisco MGC Software Release 7 Operations, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Guide

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