Brocade Communications Systems 2.1 NOS Administrator’s Guide, Installing and Maintaining Firmware

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NOS Administrator’s Guide	1

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New Content for the NOS Administrator’s Guide

The updates in this chapter are for the Network OS Administrator’s Guide Supporting Network OS v2.1.1 (53-1002491-01), originally published in December 2011.

NOTE

The updates are arranged by the chapter names as they appear in the original document.

Chapter 6, Installing and Maintaining Firmware

Replace the section titled “Downloading firmware from a USB device” on page 56 with the following section.

Downloading firmware from a USB device

The Brocade VDX 6710, 6720, and 6730 switches support firmware download from a Brocade-branded USB device. Third-party USB devices are not supported. Before you can access the USB device, you must enable the device and mount it as a file system. The firmware images to be downloaded must be stored in the factory-configured firmware directory. Multiple images can be stored under this directory.

1.Ensure that the USB device is connected to the switch.

2.Enter the usb on command.

switch# usb on

Trying to enable USB device. Please wait...

USB storage enabled

3. Optional: Enter the usb dir command.

switch# usb dir

firmwarekey\ 0B 2010 Aug 15 15:13 support\ 106MB 2010 Aug 24 05:36 config\ 0B 2010 Aug 15 15:13 firmware\ 380MB 2010 Aug 15 15:13

NOS_v2.1.1\ 379MB 2010 Aug 15 15:31 Available space on usbstorage 74%

4.Enter the firmware download usb command followed by the relative path to the firmware directory.

Network OS Documentation Update	1
53-1002606-06