Chapter 42 Cluster Management

configurator home page and the home page that you'd see if you accessed it directly are different.

Figure 209 Cluster Management: Cluster Member Web Configurator Screen

example

example

42.2.1.1 Uploading Firmware to a Cluster Member Switch

You can use FTP to upload firmware to a cluster member switch through the cluster manager switch as shown in the following example.

Figure 210 Example: Uploading Firmware to a Cluster Member Switch

C:\>ftp 192.168.1.1 Connected to 192.168.1.1.

220 Switch FTP version 1.0 ready at Thu Jan 1 00:58:46 1970 User (192.168.0.1:(none)): admin

331 Enter PASS command Password:

230 Logged in ftp> ls

200 Port command okay

150 Opening data connection for LIST

--w--w--w-

1

owner

group

3042210

Jul 01

12:00 ras

-rw-rw-rw- 1

owner

group

393216

Jul 01

12:00 config

--w--w--w-

1

owner

group

0

Jul 01

12:00 fw-00-a0-c5-01-23-46

-rw-rw-rw- 1

owner

group

0

Jul 01

12:00 config-00-a0-c5-01-23-46

226

File

sent OK

in 0.00Seconds 297000.00Kbytes/sec.

ftp: 297

bytes

received

ftp> bin

I OK

 

 

 

 

 

 

200

Type

 

 

 

 

 

 

ftp> put

390BBA0.bin fw-00-a0-c5-01-23-46

 

 

200

Port

command okay

 

 

 

 

150

Opening data connection for STOR fw-00-a0-c5-01-23-46

226

File

received OK

 

 

 

 

ftp: 262144 bytes sent in 0.63Seconds 415.44Kbytes/sec. ftp>

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metrogigabit switch specifications

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