3Com ENTERPRISE OS 11.3 Contents, About This Guide, Overview, Planning And Preparing The Upgrade

Models: ENTERPRISE OS 11.3

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS GUIDE

 

Conventions 7

 

 

Year 2000 Compliance

8

 

 

 

1 OVERVIEW

 

 

Upgrade Tools and Process

9

 

How the Utilities Work

10

Primary, Secondary, and Test Boot Sources 10

Automatic or Manual Recovery 10

Rules and Support Limitations 11

Take Time to Plan 11

2INSTALLING THE UTILITIES ON A NETWORK MANAGEMENT STATION

Installing the Utilities on a Windows System 13

Installing the Utilities on a UNIX System 14

Preparing for the Installation

14

Procedure 14

 

Setting up for Auto Startup

16

3PLANNING AND PREPARING THE UPGRADE

Setting up for TFTP File Transfers

17

Setting up for FTP File Transfers

17

Automatic Recovery 18

 

Manual Recovery

19

 

Checking DRAM

20

 

Checking Flash Memory 20

Checking the Software Version 21

Planning Tables 21

4UPGRADING USING THE NETBUILDER UPGRADE LINK APPLICATION

Status and Settings Pages

27

Settings Page 28

 

Verifying for Upgrading

29

Installing Software on the NMS 29

Procedure 30

Upgrading Software 31

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3Com ENTERPRISE OS 11.3 Contents, About This Guide, Overview, Installing The Utilities On A Network Management Station