Brocade Communications Systems A7990A - StorageWorks SAN Director 4/16 Blade Switch Command Reference Manual page 265

Brocade fabric os command reference manual (53-1000240-01, november 2006)

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Note: Enter commands in lowercase only; mixed case is for readability.

To download the firmware to an HA switch:

switch:admin> firmwaredownload 192.168.166.30,johndoe,/pub/dist/release.plist,12345

The following BP blades are installed in the system.

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This command will upgrade both CPs and all BP blade above. If

you want to upgrade a single CP only, please use -s option.

You can run firmwareDownloadStatus to get the status of this

This command will cause the active CP to reset and will require

that existing telnet, secure telnet or SSH sessions be restarted.

Do you want to continue [Y]: y

The firmware is being downloaded to the Standby CP. It may take up to 10 minutes.

The command can fail with a return code of 0x12, if the pfile has not been specified properly, or if one

of the following conditions is encountered:

host is not known to the switch

host cannot be reached by the switch

user does not have permission on host

The pfile does not exist on host

The pfile is not in the right format

Package specified in the pfile does not exist

The FTP server is not running on host

Platform is not supported by the firmware indicated.

Refer to the Fabric OS Message Reference for more information.

Refer to the release notes for unsupported Fabric OS versions.

The switchAdmin role is not allowed to change the zoning and security configuration. Therefore, zoning

and security sections in the configuration being downloaded to the switch are ignored.

To be able to mention the FTP server by name you need to setup a couple of DNS servers with