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Route Switch Processor (RSP8) Installation and Configuration Guide
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Configuring High System Availability
Step4 Enter global configuration mode and configure the system to boot first from a
Cisco IOS Release 12.0(22.3)S1 system image and then from a Cisco IOS Release 12.0(23)S system
image.
Router# configure terminal
Router(config)# boot system flash slot0:rsp-pv-mz.120-22.3.S1
Router(config)# boot system flash slot0:rsp-pv-mz.120-23.S
Withthis configuration, when the slot 6 RSP is active, it looks first in its PC Card slot 0 for the system
image filersp-pv-mz.120-22.3.S1 to boot. Finding this file, the router boots from that system image.
When the slot 7 RSP is active, it also looks first in its slot 0 for the system image file
rsp-pv-mz.120-22.3.S1 to boot. Because that image does not existin that location, the slot 7 RSP looks
forthe system image file rsp-pv-mz.120-23.S in slot 0 to boot. Finding this file in its PC Card slot 0, the
router boots from that system image. In this way,each RSP can reboot the system using its own system
image when it becomes the active RSP.
Step5 Configure the system further with a fault-tolerant booting strategy:
Router(config)# boot system tftp rsp-pv-mz.120-23.S 10.1.1.25
Step6 Setthe configuration register to enable loading of the system image from a network server or from Flash
memory and save the changes to the active and the standby startup configuration file:
Router(config)# config-register 0x010F
Router(config)# end
Router# copy running-config startup-config
Step7 Reload the system so that the active RSP uses the new Cisco IOS Release 12.0(22.3)S1 system image:
Router# reload
This completes the sample procedure for upgrading to a new software version.
Backing Up with an Older Software Version Example
The following example describes a backup scenario under the following conditions:
Theactive RSP is in processor slot 6, and the standby RSP is in processor slot 7 of a Cisco 7513 or
Cisco 7513-MX.
Both the active and the standby RSPs currently use the same image,rsp-pv-mz.120-22.3.S1, in PC
Card slot 0.
Wewant to use Cisco IOS Release 12.0(23)S as a backup to guard against software failures, and we
will configure HSA operation for software error protection.