Cisco IE 4000, Software Configuration Manual

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Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images
Working with Software Images
If you kept the old image during the download process (you specified the /leave-old-sw keyword), you can remove it by
entering the delete /force /recursive filesystem :/ file-url privileged EXEC command. For filesystem , use flash: for the
system board flash device. For file-url , enter the directory name of the old software image. All the files in the directory
and the directory are removed.
Caution: For the download and upload algorithms to operate properly, do not rename image names.
Uploading an Image File By Using FTP
You can upload an image from the switch to an FTP server. You can later download this image to the same switch or to
another switch of the same type.
Use the upload feature only if the web management pages associated with the embedded Device Manager have been
installed with the existing image.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to upload an image to an FTP server:
The archive upload-sw command builds an image file on the server by uploading these files in order: info, the Cisco
IOS image, and the web management files. After these files are uploaded, the upload algorithm creates the tar file format.
Caution: For the download and upload algorithms to operate properly, do not rename image names.
Copying Image Files By Using RCP
You can download a switch image from an RCP server or upload the image from the switch to an RCP server.
Command Purpose
1. Verify that the FTP server is properly configured by
referring to the
Preparing to Download or Upload a
Configuration File By Using FTP, page 1004 .
2. Log into the switch through the console port or a
Telnet session.
3. configure terminal Enters global configuration mode.
This step is required only if you override the default remote
username or password (see Steps 4, 5, and 6).
4. ip ftp username username (Optional) Changes the default remote username.
5. ip ftp password password (Optional) Changes the default password.
6. end Returns to privileged EXEC mode.
7. archive upload-sw
ftp:
[[ // [ username [ : password ] @ ] location ] / directory ] / i
mage-name .tar
Uploads the currently running switch image to the FTP
server.
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For // username : password , specify the username and
password. These must be associated with an account
on the FTP server.
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For @ location , specify the IP address of the FTP server.
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For / directory / image-name .tar , specify the directory
(optional) and the name of the software image to be
uploaded. Directory and image names are case
sensitive. The
image-name .tar is the name of the
software image to be stored on the server.