Usb Type A Port - Cisco Catalyst 2360 Software Configuration Manual

Using the Switch USB Ports

USB Type A Port

The USB Type A port provides access to external Cisco USB flash devices, also known as thumb drives
or USB keys. The switch supports Cisco 64 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB, and 1 GB flash drives. You can use
standard Cisco IOS command- line interface (CLI) commands to read, write, erase, and copy to or from
the flash device. You can also configure the switch to boot from the USB flash drive.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to allow booting from the USB flash device.
Command
Step 1 configure terminal
Step 2 boot system flash usbflash0: image
Step 3 show running-configuration
Step 4
copy running-config startup-config
To get information about the USB device, use the show usb {controllers | device | driver | port | tree}
privileged EXEC command.
This example configures the switch to boot from the Catalyst 2360 flash device:
Switch# configure terminal
Switch#(config)# boot system flash usbflash0: c2360-universalk9-mz
To disable booting from flash, enter the no form of the command.
This is sample output from the show usb device command:
Switch# show usb device
Host Controller: 1
Address: 0x1
Device Configured: YES
Device Supported: YES
Description: STEC USB 1GB
Manufacturer: STEC
Version: 1.0
Serial Number:
Device Handle: 0x1010000
USB Version Compliance: 2.0
Class Code: 0x0
Subclass Code: 0x0
Protocol: 0x0
Vendor ID: 0x136b
Product ID: 0x918
Max. Packet Size of Endpoint Zero: 64
Number of Configurations: 1
Speed: High
Selected Configuration: 1
Selected Interface: 0
Configuration:
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Number: 1
Number of Interfaces: 1
Description: Storage
Attributes: None
Max Power: 200 mA
Purpose
Enter global configuration mode.
Configure the switch to boot from the USB flash device. The image is
the name of the bootable image.
Verify your setting.
(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.
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