Auto provisioning of firmware and configuration
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IPLink Software Configuration Guide
6 • System image handling
Downloading a driver software image file means storing it permanently at a defined location within the flash
memory on the motherboard or in the non-volatile memory of an optional interface card. To download the
driver software image file, you must use a special download script file.
The following example shows a script file used to download a driver software image file from a TFTP server for
an IC-4BRV interface card.
# script file for driver software image download
# Patton Electronics Co. 2006-02-02
;
/Vx_R3.20_BUILD24028
+/flash/bin/pmc000216a6
4_—-
This script file defines how to handle the driver software image file and where to store it.
Note
You cannot download any driver software image file without an appropriate
script file.
Mode:
Administrator execution
Example:
Copy driver software from a network server to the Flash memory
The following example shows how to download the driver software image file from the TFTP server at IP
address 172.16.36.80. The download is defined by a script file, which has to be downloaded first. After down-
loading the script file, the driver software image file is downloaded automatically.
IPLink>enable
IPLink#configure
IPLink(cfg)#copy tftp://172.16.36.80/build24028/b flash:
Completed file download /flash/bin/pmc000216a6
IPLink(cfg)#
Note
In order for the newly downloaded driver software to be running, you must
execute the
reload
command.
Auto provisioning of firmware and configuration
The new auto provisioning capability enables you to automatically distribute up-to-date configurations and
firmware to a large number of units using TFTP. It works as follows:
Step
Command
Purpose
1
node(cfg)# copy tftp://
node-ip-address
/
b
flash:
Downloads the script file
b
from the TFTP
server at address
node-ip-address
and
starts the driver software image download
process. This progress is visualized with a
counter, counting up from 0 to 100%
according to the downloaded amount of
the file size for each file that needs to be
downloaded.