File And Image Management Configuration Examples; Upgrading The Firmware - Dell PowerEdge M420 Configuration Manual

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File and Image Management Configuration

This section contains the following examples:

Managing Configuration Scripts

Upgrading the Firmware

This example shows how to download a firmware image to the switch and

activate it. The TFTP server in this example is PumpKIN, an open source TFTP

server running on a Windows system.

TFTP server IP address: 10.27.65.103

File path: \image

File name: dell_0308.stk

Use the following steps to prepare the download, and then download and

upgrade the switch image.

1 Check the connectivity between the switch and the TFTP server.

console#ping 10.27.65.103

Pinging 10.27.65.103 with 0 bytes of data:

Reply From 10.27.65.103: icmp_seq = 0. time <10 msec.

Reply From 10.27.65.103: icmp_seq = 1. time <10 msec.

Reply From 10.27.65.103: icmp_seq = 2. time <10 msec.

Reply From 10.27.65.103: icmp_seq = 3. time <10 msec.

----10.27.65.103 PING statistics----

4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet

round-trip (msec) min/avg/max = <10/<10/<10

2 Copy the image file to the appropriate directory on the TFTP server. In

this example, the TFTP root directory is C:\My

Documents\Other\Downloads\TFTP., so the file path is images.

Managing Images and Files