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By default, firmware download downloads the firmware to the system, reboots the system, and
commits the firmware automatically. The user can specify noactivate to download the firmware to
the system without activating it (the node is not rebooted). The user can run firmware activate later
to activate the firmware.
Command Modes Privileged EXEC mode
Description Use this command to download firmware from an external host or from an attached USB device.
You can run this command interactively or provide the parameters on the command line.
The device components supported by this command have two partitions of nonvolatile storage
(primary and secondary) to store two firmware images. This command always downloads the new
image to the secondary partition and then swaps partitions, so the secondary partition becomes
the primary partition.
By default, the firmware download process reboots the system and activates the new image.
Finally, the process performs a firmware commit operation to copy the new image to the other
partition.
Usage Guidelines This command supports firmware upgrades on the local switch only.
This command does not support pagination.
If the firmware download is interrupted because of an unexpected reboot as a result of a software
error or power failure, the command automatically recovers the corrupted secondary partition.
Wait for the recovery to complete before starting another firmware download.
When default-config is specified, the VCS mode, VCS ID and RBridge ID options will be displayed.
In a dual-MM system, if you specify the manual option with the default-config option, make sure
you execute the same command on both MMs. After firmware download is completed on both
MMs, you must reboot them at the same time. Otherwise, the MMs may run into configuration
mismatch issues.
Examples In logical chassis cluster mode, you have the option to download firmware to multiple nodes:
switch# firmware download interactive
Do you want to download to multiple nodes in the cluster? [y/n]: y
Server name or IP address:
To perform a manual firmware download to a single management module:
switch# firmware download interactive
Server name or IP address: 10.31.2.25
File name: /users/home40/dist/NOSv3.0.0
Protocol (ftp, scp): ftp
User: admin
Password: **********
Do manual download [y/n]: y
Reboot system after download? [y/n]: y
Do Auto-Commit after Reboot? [y/n]: y
System sanity check passed.
You are running a firmware download on dual MM system with 'manual' option. This
will upgrade the firmware only on the local MM.
This command will cause a cold/disruptive reboot and will require that existing
telnet, secure telnet or SSH sessions be restarted.
Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y