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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 software 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 RCP
You can upload an image from the switch to an RCP server. You can later download this image to the same switch or to
another switch of the same type.
The upload feature should be used 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 RCP server:
The archive upload-sw privileged EXEC 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.
Command Purpose
1. Verify that the RCP server is properly configured by
referring to the
Preparing to Download or Upload a
Configuration File By Using RCP, page 1007 .
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 (see Steps 4 and 5).
4. ip rcmd remote-username username (Optional) Specifies the remote username.
5. end Returns to privileged EXEC mode.
6. archive upload-sw
rcp:
[[[ // [ username @ ] location ] / directory ] / image-nam
e .tar ]
Uploads the currently running switch image to the RCP
server.
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For // username, s pecify the username; for the RCP copy
request to execute, an account must be defined on the
network server for the remote username.
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For @ location , specify the IP address of the RCP 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.
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The image-name .tar is the name of software image to
be stored on the server.