Chapter 7 Managing Firmware and Configurations

Working with Software Images

Downloading an Image File by Using RCP

You can download a new image file and replace or keep the current image.

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

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow Steps 1 through 6 to download a new image from an RCP server and overwrite the existing image. To keep the current image, skip Step 6.

 

Command

Purpose

Step 1

 

 

 

Verify that the RCP server is properly configured by

 

 

referring to the “Preparing to Download or Upload an Image

 

 

File by Using RCP” section on page 7-27.

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 (see Steps 4 and 5).

Step 4

 

 

ip rcmd remote-username username

(Optional) Specifies the remote username.

Step 5

 

 

end

Returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Step 6

 

 

archive download-sw /overwrite /reload

Downloads the image file from the RCP server to the

 

rcp:[[[//[username@]location]/directory]/image-na

WMIC, and overwrite the current image.

 

me.tar]

The /overwrite option overwrites the software image in

 

 

 

 

flash with the downloaded image.

 

 

The /reload option reloads the system after

 

 

downloading the image unless the configuration has

 

 

been changed and not saved.

 

 

For //username, specify the username. For the RCP copy

 

 

request to execute successfully, an account must be

 

 

defined on the network server for the remote username.

 

 

For more information, see the “Preparing to Download

 

 

or Upload an Image File by Using RCP” section on

 

 

page 7-27.

 

 

For @location, specify the IP address of the RCP server.

 

 

For /directory/image-name.tar, specify the directory

 

 

(optional) and the image to download. Directory and

 

 

image names are case sensitive.

 

 

 

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