Chapter 7 Managing Firmware and Configurations

Working with Software Images

Uploading an Image File by Using RCP

You can upload an image from the WMIC to an RCP 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 RCP server:

 

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 upload-sw

Uploads the currently running WMIC image to the RCP

 

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

server.

 

me.tar]

For //username, specify the username; for the RCP copy

 

 

 

 

request to execute, 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 name of the software image to be

 

 

uploaded. Directory and image names are case sensitive.

 

 

The image-name.taris the name of software image to be

 

 

stored on the server.

 

 

 

The archive upload-swprivileged EXEC command builds an image file on the server by uploading these files in order: info, the IOS image, the HTML files, and info.ver. After these files are uploaded, the upload algorithm creates the tar file format.

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