Enabling High Availability Features

To copy a Cisco IOS software image from a TFTP server to a Flash memory card or Flash Disk on the active RSP, use the following commands beginning in privileged EXEC configuration mode:

 

Command

Purpose

Step 1

 

 

Router# copy tftp slotslot-number:

Uses TFTP to copy a high availability Cisco IOS

 

 

image onto the Flash memory card or Flash Disk of

 

 

the active RSP.1

 

 

slotslot-number—Specifies the Flash memory

 

 

card or Flash Disk of the active RSP.

 

Address or name of remote host []? ip-address

The router prompts you for the IP address of the

 

 

 

 

TFTP server.

 

 

ip-address—Specifies the IP address of the TFTP

 

 

server that contains the new image.

 

Name of file to copy []? imagename<Return>

The router prompts you for the name of the image file

 

writing filename!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you are copying to the Flash memory card or Flash

 

 

 

 

Disk.

 

 

imagename—Indicates the name of the image to

 

 

be loaded onto the Flash memory card or Flash

 

 

Disk.

 

Destination filename? [imagename1] <Return>

The router prompts you to enter the name under

 

Accessing tftp://host ip-address/file 'imagename' on

 

which you want the file to appear at the destination.

 

ip-address.. found !

 

 

 

11188128 bytes copied in 2280.664 secs (4906

imagename1—Indicates the name of the image

 

bytes/sec)

as it appears at the destination.

 

 

Step 2

 

 

Router# copy tftp slaveslotslot-number:

Uses TFTP to copy a high availability Cisco IOS

 

 

image onto the Flash memory card or Flash Disk of

 

 

the standby RSP.

 

 

slaveslotslot-number—Specifies the Flash

 

Address or name of remote host []? ip-address

memory card or Flash Disk of the standby RSP.

 

 

 

 

The router prompts you for the IP address of the

 

 

TFTP server.

 

Name of file to copy []? imagename<Return>

ip-address—Specifies the IP address of the TFTP

 

writing

server that contains the new image.

 

filename!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

The router prompts you for the name of the image file

 

 

you are copying to the Flash memory card or Flash

 

Destination filename? [imagename1] <Return>

Disk.

 

 

 

Accessing file 'imagename' on ip-address.. found !

imagename—Indicates the name of the image to

 

903500 bytes available for writing without erasure.

be loaded onto the Flash memory card or Flash

 

Loading imagename from ip-address (via Ethernet1/0):

 

Disk.

 

!

 

 

 

[OK - 3320245/4194176 bytes]

The router prompts you to enter the name under

 

which you want the file to appear at the destination.

 

 

 

 

imagename1—Indicates the name of the image

 

 

as it appears at the destination.

 

 

 

1.Before you copy a file to Flash memory, be sure there is ample space available in Flash memory. Compare the size of the file you are copying to the amount of available Flash memory shown. If the space available is less than the space required by the file you will copy, the copy process will continue, but the entire file will not be copied into Flash memory.

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