Basic Operation Guide 2013/06
Table Of Contents
- Switch Software
- Contents
- 1 Commands found in the Basic Operation Guide
- 2 Getting started
- 3 Using the Menu Interface
- 4 Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Overview
- Accessing the CLI
- Using the CLI
- Return message types with CLI commands
- CLI interactive commands
- CLI control and editing
- 5 Using the HP WebAgent
- 6 Switch memory and configuration
- Overview
- Configuration file management
- Using the CLI to implement configuration changes
- Creating a custom default configuration
- Using the menu and WebAgent to implement configuration changes configuration file
- Zeroization
- Using Primary and Secondary flash image options
- Multiple configuration files
- Display configuration of selected interface
- Automatic configuration update with DHCP Option 66
- 7 Interface access and system information
- 8 Configuring IP addressing
- Overview
- IP configuration
- Loopback interfaces
- IP Preserve: retaining VLAN-1 IP addressing across configuration file downloads
- Configuring a single source IP address
- 9 Software management
- Downloading switch documentation and software from the web
- Viewing or downloading the software manual set
- Downloading software updates for your switch
- Software signing and verification
- Saving configurations while using the CLI
- Important: Best Practices for software updates
- Updating the switch: overview
- Updating the switch: detailed steps
- Rolling back switch software
- Viewing or transferring alternate configuration files
- Downloading switch documentation and software from the web
- Index
Updating the switch: overview
CAUTION: Before you update the switch software to a new version:
• We strongly recommend that you save a copy of your config file to an external location.
• We advise against rolling back (going from a newer software version to an older software
version) without copying a backup config file to the device.
If you do choose to downgrade software using your existing config file, unpredictable changes in
the config file and switch behavior may occur. If booting a K.15.01.0031 or later config file into
a K.14.xx or earlier versions of software, the following commands may be removed from your
config file:
• Any commands that are present in K.15.01.0031 (or later) but are not present in earlier
versions of software
• logging
• snmp-server
• mirror-session
• auto-tftp
• filter source-port
• fault-finder
• interface loopback
To perform an update to your switch software, follow the steps below (see “Updating the switch:
detailed steps” (page 134) for detailed steps):
1. Download the image to your TFTP server.
2. Save your current configuration (Config1) to a backup configuration file (Config2).
3. Save your current configuration to an external tftp server.
4. Backup your current running image (Primary) to the secondary image.
5. Set your secondary image to boot with Config2.
6. Download the new image to the switch’s primary image.
7. Verify that your images and configuration are set correctly.
8. Reload the switch.
After following these steps, you should end up with the following results:
• Primary image will hold the new software image you want to install (for example,
K.15.01.0031)
• Secondary image will hold the image you are currently running (for example, K.14.47)
• Primary image will boot with Config1 (config file corresponding to new software version—in
this example, K.15.01.0031)
• Secondary image will boot with Config2* (config file corresponding to previous software
version—in this example, K.14.47)
* The current config file must be copied to Config2, or you will be unable to revert if the need
arises.
Downloading switch documentation and software from the web 133