Brocade Communications Systems DCX 8510-4 manual Downloading firmware from an FTP server

5 Control processor blade (CP8) removal and replacement

		v7.0.0
5 CP1	FOS	v6.3.0a	STANDBY *
		v6.3.0a

*Local CP

WARNING: The local CP and remote CP have different versions of firmware, please retry firmwaredownload command.

4.You must bring the replacement blade to the same firmware level as the active blade by running the firmwareDownload -scommand directly on the replacement blade to bring it up to the proper level. The firmwareshow command results show which slots hold the active and standby (replacement) CP blades.

If you are using an FTP server to download the firmware, skip to “Downloading firmware from an FTP server.”

If you are using a USB device to download the firmware, skip to “Downloading firmware from a USB device.” If the firmware on the standby CP blade is more than one level down from the level on the active CP blade, you must have formatted USB devices for each of the versions you will need to upgrade.

Table 9 shows the steps for upgrading from Fabric OS version 7.0.0.

TABLE 9	Steps for upgrading through multiple versions of Fabric OS
If you are at Fabric OS version		and your target version is	do these upgrade steps
7.0.0x		7.0.1	use firmwaredownload -s to upgrade directly
			to 7.0.0x

Downloading firmware from an FTP server

For this task, refer to Table 9 for the correct sequence of upgrading firmware versions to reach your target version.

Complete the following steps to download the firmware from an FTP server.

1.Log in to the standby CP blade as admin. If you need to know the IP address of the standby blade, run ipaddrshow.

You should remain logged in to the active CP blade in order to monitor it.

2.Run firmwareDownload -sto download the firmware to the standby CP blade. The -soption also disables the autoreboot, so you will have to manually issue a reboot after the download finishes to initiate firmwarecommit. Enter all requested information (use default values).

3.When the download process finishes, run firmwareDownloadStatus to verify that the firmware has been updated.The command displays a running account of the progress of the firmwareDownload command (if it is still running) until the command has completed. The final message is similar to the following and will appear with a date and time stamp:

Slot 4 (CP0, active): Firmwaredownload command has completed successfully. Use firmwareshow to verify the firmware versions.

4.On the standby CP blade (the blade for which you just changed the firmware level), run reboot. The reboot of the standby CP will initiate a firmwarecommit to the secondary partition and log you out.

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