HP Fabric OS v7.0.1, Administrator'S Manual

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Firmware download on a Backbone
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If an AP blade is present: At the point of the failover an autoleveling process is activated.
Autoleveling is triggered when the active CP detects a blade that contains a different version of
the firmware, regardless of which version is older. Autoleveling downloads firmware to the AP
blade, swaps partitions, reboots the blade, and copies the new firmware from the primary
partition to the secondary partition. If you have multiple AP blades, they are updated
simultaneously; however, the downloads can occur at different rates.
Autoleveling takes place in parallel with the firmware download being performed on the CPs,
but does not impact performance. Fibre Channel traffic is not disrupted during autoleveling,
but GbE traffic on AP blades may be affected.
ecp:admin> firmwaredownload
Type of Firmware (FOS, SAS, or any application) [FOS]:
Server Name or IP Address:
10.1.2.3
User Name: userfoo
File Name: /home/userfoo/v7.0.0
Network Protocol (1-auto-select, 2-FTP, 3-SCP, 4-SFTP)) [1]:
Password:
<hidden>
Checking version compatibility...
Version compatibility check passed.
The following AP blades are installed in the system.
Slot Name Versions Traffic Disrupted
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4
FR4-18i v7.0.0 None
10 FR4-18i v7.0.0 None
This command will upgrade the firmware on both CPs and all AP blade(s) above.
If you want to upgrade firmware on a single CP only, please use -s option.
You may run firmwaredownloadstatus to get the status of this"
command.
This command will cause a warm/non-disruptive boot on the active CP,
but will require that existing telnet, secure telnet or SSH sessions
be restarted.
Do you want to continue [Y]: y
The firmware is being downloaded to the Standby CP. It may take up to 10
minutes
10. Optionally, after the failover, connect to the switch, and log in again as admin. Using a separate
session to connect to the switch, enter the firmwareDownloadStatus command to monitor the
firmware download status.
sw0:FID128:admin> firmwaredownloadstatus
[1]: Mon Mar 22 04:27:21 2010
Slot 7 (CP1, active): Firmware is being downloaded to the switch. This step
may take up to 30 minutes.
[2]: Mon Mar 22 04:34:58 2010
Slot 7 (CP1, active): Relocating an internal firmware image on the CP blade.
[3]: Mon Mar 22 04:35:29 2010
Slot 7 (CP1, active): The internal firmware image is relocated successfully.
[4]: Mon Mar 22 04:35:30 2010