Patton electronic SmartNode 4110 Series manual Auto provisioning of firmware and configuration

SmartWare Software Configuration Guide 5 • System image handling

Auto provisioning of firmware and configuration

The new auto provisioning capability enables you to automatically distribute up-to-date configurations and firmware to a large number of units using TFTP. It works as follows:

The unit downloads a specific file from a TFTP server. If this file has changed since the last download, it is stored and executed. If the file on the server did not change since the last download, no action is taken. If the units are configured to do auto provisioning, a network operator can only update the firmware files on the TFTP server, which automatically distributes it to all units. The “profile provisioning” configures this. Here’s an example for firmware provisioning:

profile provisioning FIRMWARE destination script

location 1 tftp://172.16.1.2/firmware/b location 2 tftp://172.16.1.33/firmware/b activation reload graceful

Explanation:

Step	Command	Purpose
1	[name] (pf-prov)[FIRMWARE]#destination script	Chooses the unit’s script interpreter as des-
		tination of the downloaded file. Use this
		for firmware updates. Script files are the
		b, b1, … files that come with each unit
		firmware update.
2	[name] (pf-prov)[FIRMWARE]#location 1	Specifies the location of the file to check
	tftp://172.16.1.2/firmware/b	for changes.
3	[name] (pf-prov)[FIRMWARE]#location 2	Specifies alternate locations of the file. If
	tftp://172.16.1.33/firmware/b	the first could not be contacted, the sec-
		ond is tried, and so on.
4	[name] (pf-prov)[FIRMWARE]#activation reload	Specifies how the new firmware is to be
	graceful	activated. Choose between immediate or
		graceful reload.

Here’s an example for configuration provisioning:

profile provisioning CONFIG destination configuration

location 1 tftp://tftp1.provider.net/configs/$(system.mac).cfg location 2 tftp://172.16.1.33/configs/$(system.mac).cfg activa- tion reload graceful

Explanation:

Step	Command	Purpose
1	[name] (pf-prov)[CONFIG]#destination	Chooses the unit’s startup-configuration as
	configuration	destination of the downloaded file.

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