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Chapter 22 Configuring Redundancy
MSFC Redundancy
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Step 3
At the ROMMON prompt, enter the
confreg
command:
a.
Enter
y
at the “do you wish to change the configuration? y/n [n]:” prompt
b.
Press
Enter
to accept the default for all questions until you reach this prompt: “change the boot
characteristics? y/n [n]:”
c.
Enter
y
d.
Enter
0
to select the “0 = ROM Monitor” option at the next prompt
e.
Review the Configuration Summary to ensure the following value: boot: the ROM Monitor
f.
You are again prompted with: “do you wish to change the configuration? y/n [n]:”
g.
Enter
n
h.
You are returned to the ROMMON prompt
Step 4
Enter the
reset
command and verify that the MSFC boots into ROMMON. This step ensures that this
MSFC and the active MSFC will not boot concurrently.
Step 5
Enter
^C^C^C
to return to the supervisor engine prompt.
Step 6
Ensure that high availability has synchronized the supervisor engine state by entering the
show system
highavailability
command and verifying that high availability “Operational-status” is ON.
Step 7
Enter the
switch supervisor
command.
Step 8
Enter the
switch console
command.
Step 9
From the standby MSFC’s ROMMON prompt, perform step 3 above but in step 3d, select option 2 “boot
system” as follows:
change the boot characteristics? y/n [n]:
y
enter to boot:
0 = ROM Monitor
1 = the boot helper image
2-15 = boot system
[2]:
2
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Configuration Summary
enabled are:
load rom after netboot fails
console baud: 9600
boot: the ROM Monitor
do you wish to change the configuration? y/n [n]:
n
You must reset or power cycle for new config to take effect
rommon 2 >
Step 10
Enter the
reset
command at the ROMMON prompt to boot the system.
Step 11
After the MSFC has booted from the IOS configuration mode on the newly active MSFC’s console port,
enter the
config-register 0x2102
command.
