Software Maintenance Methods - HP A6602 Installation Manual

The configuration file name containing a drive identifier and a string terminator cannot be longer
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than 64 characters. If the drive identifier is "cfa0:/", the file name without drive identifier and
string terminator can be at most [ 64 – 1 – 6 ] = 57 characters in length.
If the file name without drive identifier and string terminator contains more than 57 characters,
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errors will occur in file operation. Typically, the file name without drive identifier and string
terminator is recommended to contain no more than 16 characters.
At BootWare boot, the names of the configuration files will be displayed, but the types will still
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be displayed as N/A.
For details about the startup saved-configuration cfgfile command, refer to HP SR6600
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Routers User Manual.

Software Maintenance Methods

You can maintain software of the A6602 in the following two methods:
Update BootWare and applications using the Xmodem protocol through a serial interface.
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Update applications using FTP/TFTP through an Ethernet interface on the BootWare menu or
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at the CLI.
Note that:
When updating the application file, if you select to overwrite the existing application file, make
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sure to secure the power supply during this process; any power failure during this process will
cause application update to fail and will damage the existing application file. In this case, if there
was only one application file for booting the system, the device will be unable to start normally.
When updating the basic BootWare section, make sure to secure power supply during this
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process; any power failure during this process will damage the basic BootWare section,
resulting in failure of device startup.
When updating the extended BootWare section, you only update part of the BootWare
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program. Once an error occurs, you can retry updating the extended BootWare section.
The BootWare program is updated together with the Comware application. You do not need to
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update the BootWare separately. After you update the Comware application to the latest version
and restart the device, the system checks whether the current BootWare version is consistent
with the one in the host application. If not, the system automatically updates the BootWare
program.
Check the current versions of the BootWare and the Comware application before updating
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them. For the association between the Comware application version and the BootWare program
version, refer to the hardware and software compatibility matrix in Release Notes.