Chapter 6 Managing the Device Hardware

EPLD Configuration

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The Downloads page lists the software types that can be downloaded for the device that you specified.

Step 8 Click NX-OS EPLD Updates.

The Downloads page lists software releases that you can download.

Step 9 Choose Latest Releases > 4.0(2).

The Downloads page displays image information, including a link to the downloadable Tar file, to the right of the the releases.

Step 10 Click the link for the Tar file.

The Downloads page displays a Download button and lists information for the Tar file.

Step 11 Click Download.

The Supporting Documents page opens to display the rules for downloading the software.

Step 12 Read the rules and click Agree.

A File Download dialog box opens to ask if you want to open or save the images file.

Step 13 Click Save.

The Save As dialog box appears.

Step 14 Indicate where to save the Tar file and click Save.

The Tar file saves to the location that you specified.

You are ready to prepare the EPLD images for Installation (see the “Preparing the EPLD Images for Installation” section on page 6-29).

Preparing the EPLD Images for Installation

Before you can update the EPLD images for each of your system modules, you must determine the Cisco NX-OS version that your system is using, make sure that there is space for the new EPLD images, and download the images.

To prepare the EPLD images for installation, follow these steps:

Step 1 Log into the device through the console port, an SSH session, or a Telnet session.

Step 2 Verify that the device is using the expected version of the Cisco NX-OS operating system. The kickstart and system lines indicate the Cisco NX-OS version. This step determines the versions of EPLD images that you must download.

switch# show version

Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software TAC support: http://www.cisco.com/tac

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