Brocade Fabric OS Upgrade Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Preface.....................................................................................................................................3
Document conventions......................................................................................3
Text formatting conventions.................................................................. 3
Command syntax conventions.............................................................. 3
Notes, cautions, and warnings.............................................................. 4
Brocade resources............................................................................................ 5
Contacting Brocade Technical Support.............................................................5
Document feedback.......................................................................................... 6
About This Document................................................................................................................ 7
Supported hardware and software.................................................................... 7
What’s new in this document............................................................................ 8
Installing and Maintaining Firmware ......................................................................................... 9
Firmware download process overview.............................................................. 9
Upgrading and downgrading firmware............................................................ 10
Passwordless firmware download...................................................................10
Considerations for FICON CUP environments................................................11
HA sync state.................................................................................................. 11
Displaying the HA redundancy status................................................. 12
Enabling automatic firmware synchronization from active CP to
the standby CP.............................................................................. 13
Manually synchronizing the firmware from the active CP to the
standby CP.................................................................................... 13
Preparing for a Firmware Download......................................................................................... 15
Prerequisites................................................................................................... 15
Obtaining and decompressing firmware..........................................................15
Connected switches........................................................................................ 16
Finding the switch firmware version................................................................ 16
Firmware Download Scenarios................................................................................................ 17
Firmware download on switches..................................................................... 17
Switch firmware download process overview......................................17
Upgrading firmware for Brocade fixed-port switches.......................... 18
Firmware download on a Backbone................................................................19
Backbone firmware download process overview................................ 19
Upgrading firmware on Backbones (including blades)........................19
Firmware download from a USB device..........................................................21
Enabling the USB device.................................................................... 22
Viewing the USB file system............................................................... 22
Downloading from the USB device using the relative path................. 22
Downloading from the USB device using the absolute path............... 22
FIPS support................................................................................................... 22
Public and private key management................................................... 22
The firmwareDownload command...................................................... 23
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