Obtaining And Placing Cisco Ios Xr Software - Cisco ASR 9000 Series User Configuration Manual

Upgrading and Managing Cisco IOS XR Software
• If a ROM Monitor upgrade is required for the software package, the upgrade must be completed before
• Check the sanity of the configuration file system and recover from any internal inconsistencies by using
• Clear any inconsistency alarms and remove any failed configurations using the clear configuration
• Although more than one version of a software package can be added to a storage device, only one version
• Some packages require the activation or deactivation of other packages.
• The package being activated must be compatible with the current active software set.
Activation is performed only after the package compatibility checks and API version compatibility checks
have been passed. If a conflict is found, an on-screen error message is displayed.
While a software package is being activated, other requests are not allowed to run on any of the impacted
nodes. Package activation is completed when a message similar to this one appears:
Install operation 2 completed successfully at 20:30:29 UTC Mon Nov 14 2005.
Each CLI install request is assigned a request ID, which can be used later to review the events.

Obtaining and Placing Cisco IOS XR Software

This section contains information to locate the available software packages and to transfer them either to a
local storage device or to a network server. When this is done, the package or packages can be added and
activated on the router .
There are two primary ways to obtain packages in Cisco IOS XR software:
• Request the software from Cisco on a flash disk that you can insert into the removable flash disk slot
• Download the Cisco IOS XR software packages to a local storage device of the DSC, such as flash
the package is activated. For ROM Monitor upgrade information and procedures, see Cisco ASR 9000
Series Aggregation Services Router ROM Monitor Guide.
the cfs check command.
cfs check
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:router#
Tue Sep 20 07:22:03.374 DST
Creating any missing directories in Configuration File system...OK
Initializing Configuration Version Manager...OK
Syncing commit database with running configuration...OK
inconsistency command.
An inconsistency alarm is set when there is a failure to restore the configuration; this can occur during
router startup, or when a line card or route switch processor (RSP) card is inserted or removed. If an
inconsistency alarm is set, a message similar to the one in this example is displayed:
RP/0/0/CPU0:May 26 11:58:40.662 : cfgmgr-rp[130]: %MGBL-CONFIGCLI-3
BATCH_CONFIG_FAIL : 28 config(s) failed during startup. To view
failed config(s) use the command - "show configuration failed startup"
When the inconsistency alarm is set, all configuration commit operations fail until the alarm is cleared.
of a package can be active for any card.
(usually flash disk1:). Flash disk1: is optional. When it is installed, flash disk1: can be used to store PIE
files, which can then be used to add new software to the boot device (usually flash disk0:).
disk1:, or to a remote server, such as a tftp or rcp server.
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