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Brocade
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X6-4 Director Hardware Installation Guide
5. Bring the replacement blade firmware to the same firmware level as the active blade using one of the following
procedures:
•
Run the
firmwaresync
command on the active CP blade to copy all firmware from the active CP blade to the
standby CP blade.
NOTE
To use this command, you must restart the existing telnet, secure telnet, or SSH sessions to the standby
CP blade.
•
Run the
firmwareDownload -s
command or
firmwaresync
command (if versions are compatible) to update
firmware on the replacement blade to bring it up to the proper level.
6. Perform one of the following tasks to download firmware:
•
If you are using an FTP server to download the firmware, skip to the procedure for downloading firmware from an
FTP server.
•
If you are using a USB device to download the firmware, skip to the procedure for downloading firmware from a
USB device. If the firmware on the standby CP blade is more than one level down from the level on the active CP
blade, you must have formatted USB devices for each of the versions you will need to upgrade.
For details on supported upgrade paths and steps to upgrade through multiple versions of Fabric OS, refer to the
Brocade Fabric OS Release Notes
and the
Brocade Fabric OS Software Upgrade User Guide
.
Downloading Firmware from an FTP Server
For this task, determine the correct sequence of upgrading firmware versions to reach your target version.
Complete the following steps to download the firmware from an FTP server to the replacement blade.
1. Log on to the standby CP blade as
admin
. If you need to know the IP address of the standby blade, run the
ipaddrshow
command.
You should remain logged on to the active CP blade in order to monitor it.
2. Run
firmwareDownload -s
to download the firmware to the replacement (standby) CP blade. The
-s
option
also disables the autoreboot, so you will have to manually issue a reboot after the download finishes to initiate a
firmwarecommit
. Enter all requested information (use default values).
3. When the download process finishes, run
firmwareDownloadStatus
to verify that the firmware has been updated.
The command displays a running account of the progress of the
firmwareDownload
command (if it is still running)
until the command has completed. The final message is similar to the following and will appear with a date and time
stamp.
Slot 1 (CP0, active): Firmwaredownload command has completed successfully. Use firmwareshow to verify the
firmware versions.
4. On the standby CP blade (the blade for which you just changed the firmware level), run
reboot
. The reboot of the
standby CP will initiate a
firmwarecommit
to the secondary partition and log you out.
Chassis_1:admin> reboot
Broadcast message from root (ttyS0) Fri Jun 17 14:49:45 2016...
The system is going down for reboot NOW !!
INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal Chassis_1:admin> HAMu Heartbeat down, stop FSS
Unmounting all f##exiting due to signal: 9, pending signals: 0x20000, 0x0
ilesystems.
Please stand by while rebooting the system...
Restarting system.
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