Specifications

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Performing Updates Using rsys_swm
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Step 2: Prepare the update host
TheupdatehostmustbeaLinuxhostwithLANaccesstothemodulesintheshelf.Allupdate
targetsmustbeaccessibleviatheBaseEthernetinterfacefromtheupdatehostrunning
rsys_swm.
Theupdaterepositorymustbelocaltotheupdatehost.Currently,thersys_swmutilityonly
supports“file://”typeuniformresourceidentifiers(URIs)foritsrepositorylocation
parameter(“releaseuri”tagintheconfigurationfile).
Youcanruntheupdatecampaignfromeitheraremotehostoranodemoduleinstalledinthe
system(e. g.,ATCA‐45xxseriesCPMs,ATCA‐46xxseriesCPMs,orCOMExpressmodules).All
operatingsystemssupportedbyRadisysalsosupporttheSMF,andthusarecapableof
runningthersys_swmupdateprocess.
Whileit’spossibleforLMP‐basedmodules(e.g.,ATCA‐1200,ATCA‐2210,ATCA‐7220,or
ATCA‐9100)toruntheupdatecampaign,Radisysdoesnotrecommenddoingso.Thisis
becausetheLMP‐basedmodulesdonothavetheflashortheRAMspacerequiredtomount
theCDISOimagelocally.
Determine the file transfer method
Determinewhichfiletransfermethodwillbeusedfordownloadingthesoftwarebundles
fromtheremoterepositoryontheupdatehosttothemodulesontheshelf.Currently,TFTP
andFTParetheonlytransferprotocolssupportedbytheSMFupdateprocess.Verifythe
updatehostisrunningtheappropriatefiletransferdaemonforyourchosenfiletransfer
method.