Prerequisites For Smus; Guidelines And Limitations For Smus - Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Configuration Manual

Performing Software Maintenance Upgrades
You must address any issues that result from the revised configuration and reapply the configuration, if
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necessary.
After the activation process completes, enter the show install log command to display the process results.
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Prerequisites for SMUs

These prerequisites must be met for a package to be activated or deactivated:
• You must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes the proper task IDs. If you suspect
• Verify that all line cards are installed and operating properly. For example, do not activate or deactivate

Guidelines and Limitations for SMUs

SMUs have the following guidelines and limitations:
• Some packages require the activation or deactivation of other packages. If the SMUs have dependencies
• The package being activated must be compatible with the current active software set.
• You cannot activate multiple SMUs in one command.
• Activation is performed only after the package compatibility checks have been passed. If a conflict is
• While a software package is being activated, other requests are not allowed to run on any of the impacted
• Each CLI install request is assigned a request ID, which can be used later to review the events.
• If you perform a software maintenance upgrade and later upgrade your device to a new Cisco NX-OS
a user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for
assistance.
packages while line cards are booting, while line cards are being upgraded or replaced, or when you
anticipate an automatic switchover activity.
on each other, you cannot activate them without first activating the previous ones.
found, an error message displays.
nodes. Package activation is completed when a message similar to this one appears:
Install operation 1 completed successfully at Thu Jan 9 01:19:24 2014
software release, the new image will overwrite both the previous Cisco NX-OS release and the SMU
package file.
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