HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual page 183

4. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
5. Issue the firmwareShow command to check the current firmware version on connected switches.
Upgrade the firmware, if necessary, before proceeding with upgrading this switch.
See "Checking connected
6. Issue the haShow command to confirm that the two CP blades are synchronized. In the following
example, the active CP blade is CP0 and the standby CP blade is CP1:
switch:admin> hashow
Local CP (Slot 5, CP0): Active, Warm Recovered
Remote CP (Slot 6, CP1): Standby, Healthy
HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized
CP blades must be synchronized and running Fabric OS 6.0.0 or later to provide a nondisruptive
download. If the two CP blades are not synchronized, issue the haSyncStart command to
synchronize them. If the CPs still are not synchronized, contact HP.
7. Issue the firmwareDownload –s command.
8. Respond to the prompts as follows:
Enter the name or IP address of the FTP server, or SSH server for SCP, where
Server
Name or IP the firmware file is stored; for example, 192.1.2.3. IP6 and DNS are
supported by firmwareDownload in 5.3.0. If DNS is enabled and a
Address
server name instead of a server IP address is specified in the command line,
firmwareDownload determines whether IP4 or IP6 should be used.
Enter the user name of your account on the server; for example, JaneDoe.
User name
6.0.0 or later: Specify the fully-qualified path name of the firmware
File name
directory, for example, /pub/v6.0.0. Absolute path names may be
specified using forward slashes (/).
Specify the file transfer protocol used to download the firmware from the file
Network
server. Valid values are FTP and SCP. The Values are not case-sensitive. If
protocol
"-p" is not specified, firmwareDownload will determine the protocol
automatically by checking the config.security parameter on the switch.
Enter a password. This operand can be omitted if firmware is accessible
Password
through a local directory, or if no password is required by the FTP server.
This operand is required when accessing an SSH server.
9. At the Do you want to continue [y/n] prompt, enter y.
The firmware is downloaded to one CP blade at a time, beginning with the standby CP blade. During
the process, the active CP blade fails over. After the firmware is downloaded, a firmware commit starts
on both CP blades. The entire firmware download and commit process takes approximately 15
minutes.
If an AP blade is present: At the point of the failover an autoleveling process is activated. Autoleveling is
triggered when the active CP detects a blade that contains a different version of the firmware,
regardless of which version is older. Autoleveling downloads firmware to the AP blade, swaps
partitions, reboots the blade, and copies the new firmware from the primary partition to the secondary
partition. If you have multiple AP blades, they are updated simultaneously; however, the downloads
can occur at different rates.
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