Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this Document
- Product Overview
- Installing a Brocade MLX Router
- Installation precautions
- Installing 2x100GbE interface modules in Brocade MLX routers
- Installing a Brocade MLX-4 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-8 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-16 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-32 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-32 router
- Preparing the installation site
- Brocade MLX-32 router shipping carton contents
- Unpacking your Brocade MLX-32 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-32 router in a rack
- Installing Brocade MLX-32 router modules
- Brocade MLX-32 cable management
- Accessing modules for service
- Installing power supplies in a Brocade MLX-32 router
- Connecting AC power
- Connecting DC power
- Removing Brocade MLX-32 router DC power supplies
- Final steps
- Attaching a management station
- Activating the power source
- Verifying proper operation
- Installing a NetIron XMR Router
- Installation precautions
- Installing 2x100GbE interface modules in NetIron XMR routers
- Installing a NetIron XMR 4000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 8000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 16000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 32000 router
- Preparing the installation site
- Unpacking a NetIron XMR 32000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 32000 router in a rack
- Installing NetIron XMR 32000 modules
- NetIron XMR 32000 cable management
- Accessing modules for service
- Installing NetIron XMR 32000 router power supplies
- Removing NetIron XMR 32000 router DC power supplies
- Final steps
- Attaching a management station
- Activating the power source
- Verifying proper operation
- Using Brocade Structured Cabling Components
- Cable cinch overview
- mRJ21 procedures
- RJ45 procedures
- Cable cinch with one group of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with two groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with three groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with four groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with five groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with six groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with seven groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with eight groups of RJ45 cables
- Connecting a Router to a Network Device
- Managing Routers and Modules
- Managing the device
- Enabling and disabling a DC Power Source
- Disabling and re-enabling power to interface modules
- Monitoring I2C failures on management modules
- Displaying device status and temperature readings
- Displaying the Syslog configuration and static and dynamic buffers
- MP Presence from LP Detection (Headless Router Operation)
- Rolling Reboot
- Line Module Configuration Deletion in Interactive Boot Mode
- Managing switch fabric modules
- Managing the cooling system
- Managing interface modules
- Monitoring Link Status
- Using alarms to collect and monitor device status
- Displaying MR2 management module memory usage
- Enabling and disabling management module CPU usage calculations
- Displaying management module CPU usage
- Removing MAC address entries
- Simplified Upgrade
- Managing the device
- Maintenance and Field Replacement
- Hardware Specifications
- Regulatory Statements
- Caution and Danger Notices
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Simplified Upgrade
Simplified Upgrade
Simplified Upgrade is a single operation that performs a full system upgrade of all the images. It can be as simple as one command from
the CLI or one set-request operation from the SNMP.
In this release, the process will be optimized by introducing a version-check of the images to determine whether it is necessary to
download/upgrade the image or not.
Version Check
Prior to this release, Simplified Upgrade and LP Auto-Upgrade reads the manifest file for the location of the image to be used for the
upgrade, and proceeds to download the image file.
For instance, when Simplified Upgrade is upgrading the LP FPGA of the interface modules, it downloads the bundled FPGA file then later
attempt to install individual FPGA types to the applicable interface modules. In the individual FPGA installation, it performs a version
check between the downloaded image and the currently running image.
If both versions are the same, Simplified Upgrade will skip the upgrade for that FPGA type and proceed to the next FPGA type. In a case
where all interface modules are up-to-date, all will be skipped.
Version Information
This release will address the above mentioned example by introducing version checking at the beginning. The manifest file will now have
a version field for every specified image. For example, a line in a manifest file for XPP MRJ FPGA image may look something like this,
xppmrj_05600.bin 1.00
xpp8x10_05600i066.bin 6.14
pbif8x10_05600i066.bin 1.30
For every FPGA type in the manifest file that is applicable to the system, its version will be compared to the image that is currently
running. If any of the following conditions is satisfied, it will start to download the bundled FPGA image and proceed to install the
applicable FPGAs conditionally:
•
At least one card is not in UP state.
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At least one FPGA type version does not match.
•
Failure to retrieve the running version (due to internal error).
Otherwise, if all the FPGA types match the versions, Simplified Upgrade will skip this step. The display output will look like this:
Bundled FPGA skipped, same version exists.
Summary Report
The summary report display is modified to indicate that the upgrade was skipped for the image. It will appear similarly to the example
report as follows:
System Upgrade Done.
Upgrade Summary
Source: tftp 10.120.75.21 Directory /XMR-MLX
1) Installed /XMR-MLX/Boot/ManagementModule/xmprm05600.bin to MP Boot
2) Installed /XMR-MLX/Boot/InterfaceModule/xmlprm05600.bin to LP Boot on all LP
slots
3) Installed /XMR-MLX/Monitor/ManagementModule/xmb05600.bin to MP Monitor
4) Installed /XMR-MLX/Monitor/InterfaceModule/xmlb05600.bin to LP Monitor on all
LP slots
5) Installed /XMR-MLX/Application/ManagementModule/xmr05600b296.bin to MP Primar
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