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rinted from Dell Power Solutions, August 2005. Copyright © 2005 Dell Inc. All rights reserve
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ugust 2005
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F
or the firmware update process, the McDATA management
i
nter
f
ace requires administrators to lo
g
in to the switch usin
g
the
“
admin” account and access the advanced con
f
iguration console
mode usin
g
the
ad
min
sta
r
t
co
mm
a
n
d.
4
Brocade Silkworm 3014 Fibre Channel switch firmware.Brocade
Fibre Channel switch firmware can be upgraded using either a
W
eb-based GUI or a CLI. To u
p
date the
f
abric OS in command
-
l
ine mo
d
e, a
d
ministrators s
h
ou
ld
execute t
h
e firmwaredownloa
d
command
f
rom an FTP server or
f
rom a local Network File S
y
stem
(NFS) directory while in
a
dmi
n
mo
d
e:
f
irmwaredownload o
p
tions
h
ost_or_IP,use
r
,
/
path
/
to
/
the
/
pfil
e
,
p
assw
d
The updated firmware is in the form of Red Ha
t
®
Pac
k
age
M
ana
g
er
(
RPM
™
)
packa
g
es with names de
f
ined in p
f
ile, a binary
file that contains specific firmware information and the names o
f
f
irmware packa
g
es to be downloaded.
I
n
d
ua
l
-
d
omain systems, t
h
e
f
irmwaredownload comman
d
downloads the
f
irmware ima
g
e by de
f
ault to both control proces-
sors
(
CPs
)
in rollover mode, which hel
p
s
p
revent disru
p
tion to
a
pplication services. This operation depends on support for the
High-Availability
(
HA
)
f
ea
-
t
ure, w
h
ic
h
can
b
e ena
bl
e
d
t
hrou
g
h the
hae
n
ab
l
e
com-
m
a
n
d
in
the
s
wi
tch
C
LI
.
I
f
HA su
pp
ort is not avail
-
abl
e, a
d
ministrators can sti
ll
u
p
g
rade the CPs one at a
t
ime, using t
h
e
–s
o
p
tion
.
5
Systems supported by the
B
rocade
f
irmware have two
partitions of nonvolatile stor
-
ag
e areas—a primary and a
secon
d
ary partition—to store
t
wo
f
irmware ima
g
es. The firmw
a
r
edo
wn
load
co
mm
a
n
d
l
oads
t
h
e
u
p
d
ate
d
image into t
h
e secon
d
ary partition an
d
swaps t
h
e secon
d
-
a
ry partition to be the primary partition. The command then reboots
t
he CP and activates the updated image. Finally, it per
f
orms the
firmw
a
r
eco
mmi
t
procedure automatically to copy the updated
i
mage to the other partition
(
unless the –
n
o
p
tion is used
).
To update the firmware usin
g
the GUI, administrators should
l
aunch the Brocade Web console by enterin
g
the IP address o
f
th
e switc
h
in t
h
e
b
rowser a
dd
ress
l
ine. T
h
ey s
h
ou
ld
t
h
en
l
og in
a
s “a
d
min” an
d
navigate to t
h
e Firmware ta
b
. On t
h
e Firmware
pa
g
e, administrators should enter the FTP server’s IP address
a
nd the path to the
f
irmware image
f
ile, then begin the
f
irmware
u
pdate process.
A
t the switch console
,
administrators can use the
firmw
a
r
edo
wn
loadstatus
co
mm
a
n
d
to
m
o
ni
to
r
the
do
wn
load
p
rocess. A
f
ter the download is
f
inished, administrators can enter
the
f
irmwareshow command to verify that the firmware update
com
p
leted success
f
ull
y
.
Dell PowerConnect 5316M Ethernet switch firmware.
T
wo
f
irmware ima
g
es can be stored in the
f
lash memory o
f
the
PowerConnect 5316M switc
h
mo
d
u
l
e. T
h
e images are ca
ll
e
d
active
a
nd nonactive, dependin
g
on which ima
g
e the switch is currently
r
unning. The switch also supports two protocols to download the
i
mages: networ
k
-
b
ase
d
TFTP an
d
seria
l
port–
b
ase
d
xmo
d
em
.
To use the TFTP method, administrators must com
p
lete the
following setup procedures before starting the firmware update
process
:
1. Set u
p
a TFTP server
.
2.
I
nstall the updated
f
irmware image on the TFTP server.
3.
L
o
g
in to the switch, and enter the privile
g
ed EXEC mode.
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A
fter logging in, administrators can execute the following com-
mand in privile
g
ed EXEC mode to copy the
f
ile named “ima
g
e” to
t
he nonactive image file
:
console
#
co
p
y tft
p
:/
/
h
ostname/
p
ath/to/the/
systemimag
e
f
lash
A
fter the flash update is complete, the switch can be instructed
t
o boot
f
rom either o
f
the two images by executing the
f
ollowing
comman
d
in privi
l
e
g
e
d
EXEC mo
d
e
:
console
#
boot system {image1 | image2
}
A
dministrators should enter the following command to verify
w
he ther the switch success
f
ully booted into the updated system
i
mage
:
console
#
show versio
n
A
lthou
g
h administrators may never need to up
g
rade the switch
boot image, they can do so by executing the following command
:
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For more information about the CLI-based firmware u
p
date
p
rocess for the McDATA 4314 switch, refer to the
McDATA 4314 Command Line Interface Guide
on the CD that ships with the McDATA switch.
e
5
F
or more information about command options for Brocade Silkworm 3014 Fibre Channel switch firmware, refer to the
Brocade Fabric Operating System (FOS) Reference Manual
on the CD that ships with the Brocade switch.
l
6
For more information about the operation modes of the Power
C
onnect 5316M switch and how to confi
g
ure the system identity, refer to the
Dell PowerConnect 5316M Ethernet Switch Module User’s Guide
a
n
d
t
he
e
Dell
PowerConnect CLI 5316M Reference Guide
at support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/PC5316M/en.
e
To provide consistent
performance throughout the
fabric, administrators should
ensure that all switch modules
are running the same version
of firmware.