Comtech EF Data FX Series Administrator Guide - Manual (Page 143)

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FX Series Administration Guide - Version 6.1.1 143
Chapter: FX Series Operations Features
Section: Update Software
MN-FXSERIESADM6 Rev 5
9.3.4 Recommended Process for Software Upgrades
A recommended practice for deploying new FX image updates is as follows:
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On FX ADC, navigate to “Configuration->General Settings”. Turn off “Automatically
Distribute Remote Updates”.
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On FX ADC, navigate to “Operations->Update Software”. Use the “Upload and Apply
Server Installation Image” to update the firmware on the FX ADC.
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After the firmware update is applied to the FX ADC, plan a time window when you
would like firmware updates to be distributed to the FX Remotes. This time window
could be an hour or two and is usually done when traffic is low.
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At the time that you wish to distribute updates to the FX Remotes, on the FX ADC,
navigate to ”Configuration->General Settings”. Turn on “Automatically Distribute
Remote Updates”.
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Since each FX Remote checks every 45 minutes for an update, within an hour all FX
Remotes should have downloaded and applied the firmware update.
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After all FX Remotes have been updated, navigate to “Configuration->General Settings”.
Turn off “Automatically Distribute Remote Updates”.
To verify that the FX Remote devices have been updated, you can use SNMP to query the
version number of FX Remote firmware.
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The OID of the version string is 1.3.6.1.4.1.19418.1.2.1.1.
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The following Windows console script would show the version numbers currently
running at two FX Remotes using the net-snmp tools:
set netsnmp=c:\netsnmp
set SNMPCONFPATH=c:/netsnmp/etc/snmp;c:/netsnmp/snmp/persist
set SNMPSHAREPATH=c:/netsnmp/share/snmp
bin\snmpwalk -m all -v 2c -c public 172.27.101.206 1.3.6.1.4.1.19418.1.2.1.1
bin\snmpwalk -m all -v 2c -c public 172.27.101.244 1.3.6.1.4.1.19418.1.2.1.1
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Execution of the above script would yield the following output:
C:\netsnmp 14:46:13.25>bin\snmpwalk -m all -v 2c -c public 172.27.101.206
1.3.6.1.4.1.19418.1.2.1.1
SAAS-RCO-MIB::wanopVersion.0 = STRING: "6.0.0a-201206081729N4.x86_64"
C:\netsnmp 14:46:13.57>bin\snmpwalk -m all -v 2c -c public 172.27.101.244
1.3.6.1.4.1.19418.1.2.1.1
SAAS-RCO-MIB::wanopVersion.0 = STRING: "6.0.0a-201206081729N4.x86_64"