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Chapter 11 Maintaining and Managing the SN 5428-2 Storage Router
Installing Updated Software
Downloading from a Special Location
There may be times when you need to make special software available to the storage router, for example,
under the guidance of a Cisco Technical Support professional.
If you isolate this software from standard updates by placing it in another location (not the default
download location), you could change the default download location, download the software, and then
reset the default download location.
An easier way, however, is to specify the download location as a parameter on the appropriate
download software command.
• To download a file named 331-K9.tar from http://your.website.com/sn5428-2 via HTTP, issue this
command:
download software http url http://your.website.com/sn5428-2/331-K9.tar
• To download a file named 331-K9.tar from http://your.website.com/sn5428-2 using the services of
a proxy server, issue this command:
download software proxy url http://your.website.com/sn5428-2/331-K9.tar
• To download a file named 331-K9.tar from my_tftpHost using TFTP, issue this command. The
321-K9.tar file must reside in the default base directory defined for the TFTP host.
download software tftp hostname my_tftpHost filename 331-K9.tar
Setting Updated Software as Boot Version
Downloading updated software to the storage router does not change the currently running version of the
software, nor does it automatically set the new version to be booted at next system restart. You must take
specific action to make the new software version bootable.
Setting software as the bootable version consists of verifying the software integrity and performing
internal checks to ensure that the storage router can boot the specified version of software.
Use the following procedure to set the new software as the version to be booted.
Command Description
Step 1
enable Enter Administrator mode.
Step 2
download software tftp version
3.3.1-K9
Make a new software version available to the storage router (for
example, 3.3.1-K9).
Command Description
Step 1
enable Enter Administrator mode.
Step 2
software version 3.3.1-K9 Select the software to be booted when the system next starts (for
example, boot 3.3.1-K9 when the system restarts). The system
checks the integrity of the specified software version to be sure
that it is bootable.