Fortinet 3.0 MR7 Testing firmware before upgrading, To test the firmware image before upgrading

Testing firmware before upgrading Managing firmware versions

Testing firmware before upgrading

You may want to test the firmware you want to install before upgrading to a new firmware version, maintenance or patch release. By testing the firmware image, you can familiarize yourself with the new features and changes to existing features, as well as understand how your configuration works with the firmware. You can test a firmware image by installing it from a system reboot and saving it to system memory. After the firmware is saved to system memory, the FortiAnalyzer unit operates using the firmware with the current configuration.

The procedure does not permanently install the firmware; the next time the FortiAnalyzer unit restarts, it operates using the firmware originally installed on the FortiAnalyzer unit. You can install the firmware permanently using the procedures in “Upgrading your FortiAnalyzer unit” on page 174.

You can use the following procedure regardless of the type of firmware image, for example, a patch release.

Note: After you have tested the firmware, and rebooted the FortiAnalyzer unit, the original configuration does not resume. You need to restore the configuration after testing the firmware.

To test the firmware image before upgrading

1Copy the new firmware image file to the root directory of the TFTP server.

2Start the TFTP server.

3Log into the CLI.

4Enter the following command to ping the computer running the TFTP server: execute ping <server_ipaddress>

Pinging the computer running the TFTP server verifies that the FortiAnalyzer unit and TFTP server are successfully connected.

5Enter the following to restart the FortiAnalyzer unit. execute reboot

6As the FortiAnalyzer unit reboots, a series of system startup messages appears. When the following message appears,

Press any key to display configuration menu…

7Immediately press any key to interrupt the system startup.

You have only three seconds to press any key. If you do not press a key soon enough, the FortiAnalyzer unit reboots and you must log in and repeat steps 5 to 7 again.

If you successfully interrupt the startup process, the following message appears:

[G]: Get firmware image from TFTP server.

[F]: Format boot device.

[B]: Boot with backup firmware and set as default.

[C]: Configuration and information.

[Q]: Quit menu and continue to boot with default firmware.

[H]: Display this list of options.

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