Specifications

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System Management Software Configuration Guide for Cisco IE 2000U and Connected Grid Switches
Chapter 2 Assigning the Switch IP Address and Default Gateway
Assigning Switch Information
• If your switch is configured for manual booting, do not reload it from a virtual terminal. This
restriction prevents the switch from entering boot loader mode and thereby taking it from the remote
user’s control.
• If you modify your configuration file, the switch prompts you to save the configuration before
reloading. During the save operation, the system requests whether you want to proceed with the save
if the CONFIG_FILE environment variable points to a startup configuration file that no longer
exists. If you proceed in this situation, the system enters setup mode upon reload.
DETAILED STEPS
To configure your switch to reload the software image at a later time, use one of these commands in
privileged EXEC mode:
• [warm] reload in [hh:]mm [text]
This command schedules a reload or warm reload of the software to take affect at the specified
minutes, or hours and minutes. The reload must take place within approximately 24 days. You can
specify the reason for the reload in a string up to 255 characters in long.
• [warm] reload at hh:mm [month day | day month] [text]
This command schedules a reload or warm reload of the software to take place at the specified time
(using a 24-hour clock). If you specify the month and day, the reload is scheduled to take place at
the specified time and date. If you do not specify the month and day, the reload takes place at the
specified time on the current day (if the specified time is later than the current time) or on the next
day (if the specified time is earlier than the current time). Specifying 00:00 schedules the reload for
midnight.
Note Use the at keyword only if the switch system clock has been set (through Network Time
Protocol (NTP), the hardware calendar, or manually). The time is relative to the configured
time zone on the switch. To schedule reloads across several switches to occur
simultaneously, the time on each switch must be synchronized with NTP.
You can use the warm keyword to reload the switch without reading images from storage. The Cisco IOS
image reboots without ROM monitor mode (ROMMON) intervention. It restores the read-write data
from a previously saved copy in the RAM and starts without copying the image from flash memory to
RAM or self-decompression of the image. Thus, the switch reboots much faster.
Note The warm keyword causes the switch to boot automatically, even if your switch is configured
for manual booting.
EXAMPLE
This example shows how to reload the switch software on the current day at 19:30:
Switch# reload at 19:30
Reload scheduled for 19:30:00 UTC Wed Jun 5 1996 (in 2 hours and 25 minutes)
Proceed with reload? [confirm]
This example shows how to schedule a warm reload of the switch software at a future time:
Switch# warm reload at 02:00 jun 20
Reload scheduled for 02:00:00 UTC Thu Jun 20 1996 (in 344 hours and 53 minutes)
Proceed with reload? [confirm]