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Contents
Preface.....................................................................................................................................5
Document conventions......................................................................................5
Text formatting conventions.................................................................. 5
Command syntax conventions.............................................................. 5
Notes, cautions, and warnings.............................................................. 6
Brocade resources............................................................................................ 7
Contacting Brocade Technical Support.............................................................7
Document feedback.......................................................................................... 8
About This Document................................................................................................................ 9
Supported hardware and software.................................................................... 9
Supported Fabric OS Upgrade Paths............................................................. 10
What’s new in this document.......................................................................... 10
Installing and Maintaining Firmware .......................................................................................13
Firmware download process overview............................................................ 13
Upgrading and downgrading firmware............................................................ 14
Passwordless firmware download...................................................................14
Considerations for FICON CUP environments................................................15
HA sync state.................................................................................................. 15
Displaying the HA redundancy status................................................. 16
Enabling automatic firmware synchronization from active CP to
the standby CP.............................................................................. 17
Manually synchronizing the firmware from the active CP to the
standby CP.................................................................................... 17
Preparing for a Firmware Download......................................................................................... 19
Prerequisites................................................................................................... 19
Obtaining and decompressing firmware..........................................................19
Connected switches........................................................................................ 20
Finding the switch firmware version................................................................ 20
Firmware Download Scenarios................................................................................................ 21
Firmware download on switches..................................................................... 21
Switch firmware download process overview......................................21
Upgrading firmware for Brocade fixed-port switches.......................... 22
Firmware download on a Backbone................................................................23
Backbone firmware download process overview................................ 23
Upgrading firmware on Backbones (including blades)........................23
Firmware download from a USB device..........................................................25
Enabling the USB device.................................................................... 26
Viewing the USB file system............................................................... 26
Downloading from the USB device using the relative path................. 26
Downloading from the USB device using the absolute path............... 26
FIPS support................................................................................................... 26
Public and private key management................................................... 26
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