Appendix A. Upgrading Software
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RuggedBackbone™ RX5000
Click on the Software-Upgrade menu to view the Upgrade Monitoring form. The Upgrade Monitoring
form shows the real-time progress of the Upgrade procedure. The software upgrade progresses through
four phases:
• Estimating upgrade size
• Copying filesystem
• Downloading packages
• Installing packages
The final reported status is either Completed successfully or, if an error prevented the completion of
any one of the above four phases, Failed. These phases are shown in real time in the Upgrade Phase
field on the Upgrade Monitoring Form, below.
Figure A.8. Upgrade Monitoring Form in Reboot-pending Stage
Once the upgrade has successfully installed, the three phase progress indicator fields indicate 100%
complete. In this state, the Upgrade Monitoring form will display Reboot Pending in the Last Result
field. This indicates that a system reboot is required in order for the newly installed software upgrade
to take effect.
Reboot the system.
When system has been rebooted to run the newly upgraded software installation, the Current Version
field will reflect the ROX version number: