Chapter 7 Managing Firmware and Configurations

Working with Software Images

If you specify the /leave-old-sw, the existing files are not removed. If there is not enough space to install the new image and keep the running image, the download process stops, and an error message is displayed.

The algorithm installs the downloaded image onto the system board flash device (flash:). The image is placed into a new directory named with the software version string, and the BOOT path-list is updated to point to the newly installed image. Use the privileged EXEC mode show boot command to display boot attributes, and use the global configuration boot command to change the boot attributes.

If you kept the old image during the download process (you specified the /leave-old-swkeyword), you can remove it by entering the delete /force /recursive filesystem:/file-urlprivileged EXEC command. For filesystem, use flash: for the system board flash device. For file-url, enter the directory name of the old software image. All the files in the directory and the directory are removed.

Uploading an Image File by Using FTP

You can upload an image from the WMIC to an FTP server. You can later download this image to the same WMIC or to another WMIC of the same type.

Caution For the download and upload algorithms to operate properly, do not rename image directories.

The upload feature is available only if the HTML pages associated with the Cluster Management Suite (CMS) have been installed with the existing image.

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to upload an image to an FTP server:

 

Command

Purpose

Step 1

 

 

 

Verify that the FTP server is properly configured by referring

 

 

to the “Preparing to Download or Upload a Configuration

 

 

File by Using FTP” section on page 7-12.

Step 2

 

 

 

Log in to the WMIC through a Telnet session.

Step 3

 

 

configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

 

 

This step is required only if you override the default remote

 

 

username or password (see Steps 4, 5, and 6).

Step 4

 

 

ip ftp username username

(Optional) Changes the default remote username.

Step 5

 

 

ip ftp password password

(Optional) Changes the default password.

 

 

 

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3200 specifications

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