Release Notes for Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3120 for HP, Cisco IOS Release 12.2(46)SE

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Upgrading the Switch Software

Archiving Software Images

Before upgrading your switch software, make sure that you have archived copies of the current Cisco

IOS release and the Cisco IOS release from which you are upgrading. You should keep these archived

images until you have upgraded all devices in the network to the new Cisco IOS image and until you

have verified that the new Cisco IOS image works properly in your network.

Cisco routinely removes old Cisco IOS versions from Cisco.com. See Product Bulletin 2863 for more

information:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps5187/prod_bulletin0900aecd80281c0e.html

You can copy the bin software image file on the flash memory to the appropriate TFTP directory on a

host by using the copy flash: tftp: privileged EXEC command.

Note Although you can copy any file on the flash memory to the TFTP server, it is time-consuming to copy

all of the HTML files in the tar file. We recommend that you download the tar file from Cisco.com and

archive it on an internal host in your network.

You can also configure the switch as a TFTP server to copy files from one switch to another without

using an external TFTP server by using the tftp-server global configuration command. For more

information about the tftp-server command, see the “Basic File Transfer Services Commands” section

of the Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference, Release 12.2, at this URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2/configfun/command/reference/ffun_r.html

Upgrading a Switch by Using the Device Manager or Network Assistant

You can upgrade switch software by using the device manager or Network Assistant. For detailed

instructions, click Help.

Note When using the device manager to upgrade your switch, do not use or close your browser session after

the upgrade process begins. Wait until after the upgrade process completes.

Upgrading a Switch by Using the CLI

This procedure is for copying the combined tar file to the switch. You copy the file to the switch from a

TFTP server and extract the files. You can download an image file and replace or keep the current image.

To download software, follow these steps:

Step 1 Use Table 4 on page 5 to identify the file that you want to download.

Step 2 Download the software image file. If you have a SmartNet support contract, go to this URL, and log in

to download the appropriate files:

http://tools.cisco.com/support/downloads/pub/Redirect.x?mdfid=268438038

To download the universal software image files for a Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3120 for HP, click

Blade Switches > Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3000 Series for HP >. To obtain authorization and to

download the cryptographic software files, click Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3000 Series for HP

Cryptographic Software.