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Deploying
Deploy Elements Overview
The Deploy capabilities of this application let you conveniently manage both device configurations
and firmware deployments. Before you can use these capabilities, however, you may want to
configure an FTP or TFTP server to retrieve or deploy the files. Chapter 35, File Servers describes
this setup. The internal FTP/TFTP server is enabled by default.
The following are this application’s capabilities for deploying network element firmware or
operating system files:
• Maintain a history of software installed/deployed on the network element by the element
management system.
• Stage and import the software images/patches, then deploy, or redeploy them to specific
network elements.
• Track the software images and patches deployed to any given network element.
• Schedule the deployment of a software image or patch to any single network element.
This application employs various components, described in the following sections, to do the above.
Deploy
The following section describes using NetConfig to deploy software (firmware, or O/S patches).
You can deploy to groups of network equipment too (see Deploying Globally on page 880). Follow
these steps to deploy software to individual devices:
1 Launch the Resource Manager.
2 Using the filter, retrieve the list of network elements, which then appear in the Resource
Manager table.