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76 Brocade NetIron CES 2000 and NetIron CER 2000 Hardware Installation Guide
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Software images
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• “Upgrading the device’s monitor and boot images” – This sub-section describes the
procedures required for upgrading the NetIron CES and NetIron CER 2000 Series devices
Monitor and Boot software images. The procedures described apply to all versions of the
software.
• “Upgrading the device’s multi-service IronWare image” – This sub-section describes the
procedures required for upgrading the NetIron CES and NetIron CER 2000 Series devices
Multi-Service IronWare software image. The procedures described apply to all versions of the
software.
Description of the software images required
The functionality within each of the software images required to operate the NetIron CES and
NetIron CER 2000 Series is described in Table 14. Because the functions that are most likely to
change are contained within the Multi-Service IronWare image, updates will usually only require
updating the Multi-Service IronWare image.
NOTE
The NetIron CES and NetIron CER 2000 Series uses the same file image for both the boot and
monitor images.
Upgrade options
When performing this upgrade, you will usually only need to upgrade Multi-Service IronWare image.
The Boot and Monitor images will only need to be upgraded as specifically directed in the relevant
release notes.
The steps for this upgrade includes the following.
1. Determine the versions of the software images currently installed and running on the device.
2. Upgrade the device’s Multi-Service IronWare image.
Use the procedures described in “Upgrading the device’s multi-service IronWare image” on
page 81.
3. Reboot the NetIron CES and NetIron CER 2000 Series device.
In most cases, this is all that will be required. If you are directed by the release notes to upgrade
the Monitor or Boot images, use the following procedure.
TABLE 14 Description of software images
Software image Functions in
versions 03.8.00 and later
Image name
Boot Image Bootstrap ceb<xxxx>
Monitor Image Image Handling ceb<xxxx>
Memory Init
Multi-Service IronWare Image Application ce<xxxx>
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