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FX Series Administration Guide - Version 6.2.2
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Chapter: FX Series Operations Features
Section: How to Update Software
MN-FXSERIESADM6 Rev 6
Upload and Apply Server Installation Image Version 6. 2+:
This button can only be clicked after selecting a file relative to your desktop workstation using
the “Choose File” button. After picking the updated Acceleration Server software from the
location that you saved it, click on the “Upload and Apply Server Installation Image” button to
upload the software and install it on the system. Do the same process for the updated service
patch if there is one available.
8.3.2
How to Download and Apply Image from ADC (FX Remote Only):
An FX Remote polls the FX ADC every 45 minutes to determine if a software update is available. If a
newer version is available and the FX ADC is configured to “Automatically distribute remote updates”
then the FX remote will automatically download the update and apply it.
Applying the firmware update, regardless of the method used to acquire the image, results in about a
30 second service disruption.
A recommended practice for deploying new FX image updates is as follows:
1.
On ADC, navigate to “Configuration->General Settings”. Turn off “Automatically
distribute remote updates”.
2.
On ADC, navigate to “Operations->Update Software”. Use the “Upload and Apply
Installation Image” to update the firmware on the ADC.
3.
After the firmware update is applied to the ADC, plan a time window when you would
like firmware updates to be distributed to the FX Remotes. This time window could be
an hour or two and is usually done when traffic is low.
4.
At the time that you wish to distribute updates to the FX Remotes, on ADC, navigate to
“Configuration->General Settings”. Turn on “Automatically distribute remote updates”.
5.
Since each remote check every 45 minutes for an update, within an hour all FX remotes
should have downloaded and applied the firmware update.
6.
After all FX remotes have been updated, navigate to “Configuration->General Settings”.
Turn off “Automatically distribute remote updates”.
To verify that the FX Remote devices have been updated, you can use SNMP to query the version
number of FX Remote firmware. The OID of the version string is 11.3.6.1.4.1.
6247.78.1.1.3
. The
following Windows console script would show the version numbers currently running at two FX
Remotes using the net-snmp tools:
set netsnmp=c:\netsnmp
set SNMPCONFPATH=c:/netsnmp/etc/snmp;c:/netsnmp/snmp/persist
set SNMPSHAREPATH=c:/netsnmp/share/snmp
bin\snmpwalk -m all -v 2c -c public 172.27.101.206 1.3.6.1.4.1.
6247.78.1.1.3
bin\snmpwalk -m all -v 2c -c public 172.27.101.244 1.3.6.1.4.1.
6247.78.1.1.3
