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tftp: After entering the keyword tftp:, you can either follow it with the location of the source file in this

form: //hostlocation/filepath or press Enter to launch a prompt sequence.

flash: After entering the keyword flash:, you can either follow it with the location of the source file in this form:

flash//filepath or press Enter to launch a prompt sequence.

A: | B: Enter the partition to upgrade from the flash.

stack-unit: Enter the keywords stack-unit: to synch the image to the stack-unit.

file-url Enter the following location keywords and information to upgrade using an Dell Networking OS image other

than the one currently running:

• To specify an Dell Networking OS image on the internal flash, enter flash:// file-path/filename.

• To specify an Dell Networking OS image on an FTP server, enter ftp://user:password@hostip/

filepath

• To specify an Dell Networking OS image on the external flash, enter slot0://file-path/filename.

• To copy a file on a TFTP server, enter tftp://hostip/filepath/filename.

where hostip is either an IPv4 dotted decimal address or an IPv6 URI [x:x:x:x::x] format address.

Defaults none

Command Modes EXEC Privilege

Command History

This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, refer to the relevant Dell Networking OS

Command Line Reference Guide.

The following is a list of the Dell Networking OS version history for this command.

Version Description

9.8(0.0) Introduced on the S3048-ON and S4048-ON.

9.0(0.0) Added support for IPv6 for the file-url parameter.

8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.

8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000. Added support for the SSD on the Z9000 only.

8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.

7.7.1.0 Added support for TFTP and SCP.

7.6.1.0 Introduced on the S-Series.

Usage Information

RFC 3986 specifies that IPv6 host addresses in a uniform resource identifier (URI) must be enclosed in square brackets, [X:X:X:X::X].

For maximum flexibility this command accepts IPv6 host addresses with or without the square brackets.

Reload Dell Networking OS after executing this command. To copy Dell Networking OS from the management unit to one or more

stack members, use the upgrade system stack-unit (S-Series stack member) command.

Example

Dell# upgrade system ?

ftp: Copy from remote file system (ftp://userid:password@hostip/filepath)

scp: Copy from remote file system (scp://userid:password@hostip/filepath)

File Management