Brocade Communications Systems PowerConnect B-RX Instruction Manual

Multi-Service IronWare Software
Release 02.8.00a for Brocade
BigIron RX Series Switches
Release Notes v1.0
August 12, 2011
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02.8.00a for Brocade BigIron RX Series
Switches Release Notes v1.0
Release 02.8.00a August 2011

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Contents
Supported devices for Multi-Service IronWare Release 02.8.00a.......................5
Enhancements...........................................................................................................5
Release 02.8.00a ..................................................................................................................... 5
Release 02.8.00....................................................................................................................... 5
Feature support........................................................................................................7
Supported features .................................................................................................................. 7
Unsupported features............................................................................................................ 12
Software image files for Multi-Service IronWare Release 02.8.00a.................12
Images and procedures required ........................................................................................... 13
Upgrading the Multi-Service IronWare software ..............................................13
Displaying version information ............................................................................................ 14
Different image information................................................................................................. 15
Management Modules ...............................................................................................................15
Interface Modules......................................................................................................................16
Backing up the current software images............................................................................... 17
Unified software image upgrade........................................................................................... 17
Upgrading the images independently.................................................................................... 18
Upgrading the monitor and boot images on the management module......................................18
Upgrading the IronWare image on the management module....................................................19
Upgrading the monitor and boot images on the interface module.............................................20
Upgrading the IronWare image on the interface module ..........................................................21
Upgrading MBRIDGE FPGA on the management module......................................................23
Rebooting the management module...................................................................................... 24
Regenerating SSH v2 crypto key.......................................................................................... 25
Hitless Layer 2 OS Upgrade................................................................................................. 25
Considerations when using the Hitless Layer 2 OS Upgrade feature........................................26
The Hitless OS Layer 2 software process..................................................................................27
Performing a Hitless Layer 2 OS software upgrade..................................................................28
Loading the Multi-Service IronWare software onto the switch ................................................28
Technical support...................................................................................................29

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General Information.............................................................................................................. 29
Getting Help or Reporting Errors........................................................................29
Additional resources..............................................................................................30
Defects .....................................................................................................................30
Closed defects with code change in Multi-Service IronWare Release 02.8.00a .................. 31
Closed defects with code change in Multi-Service IronWare Release 02.8.00.................... 33

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Supported devices for Multi-Service IronWare Release
02.8.00a
This software release applies to the following Brocade products:
•BigIron RX-4 Switch
•BigIron RX-8 Switch
•BigIron RX-16 Switch
•BigIron RX-32 Switch
Note: The software release described in this release notes can only be used on the devices specified
above.
All information required to operate the BigIron RX Series switch is described in the BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide or the Brocade BigIron RX Series Installation Guide.
Enhancements
The enhancements for the Multi-Service IronWare software are descibed in this section.
Release 02.8.00a
BigIron RX device does not properly restrict packets sent with a source port of 179. Port 179 is
commonly used for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) communication. These packets are allowed through
the system. This has been reported by US-CERT http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/853246 (Defect
000355173).
In Release 02.8.00a of the Multi-Service IronWare software, a new CLI command, hw-opt bgp | bfd, was
added to disable internal ACLs for BGP and BFD.
To deny BGP traffic on the interface 1/15, enter the following commands.
BigIron RX(config)# interface ethernet 1/15
BigIron RX(config-if-e10000-1/15)# enable
BigIron RX(config-if-e10000-1/15)# hw-opt bgp
BigIron RX(config-if-e10000-1/15)# exit
Syntax: hw-opt bgp | bfd
The bgp parameter disables prioritization of BGP packets.
The bfd parameter disables prioritization of BFD packets.
Release 02.8.00
The following table lists the enhancements for the release 2.8.00.

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Table 1: Enhancements for Release 02.8.00
Enhancement
Description
Described in
Multi-device Port
Authentication Multi-device port authentication is now supported on the BigIron RX tagged and
untagged ports.
Book: BigIron RX Series Configuration
Guide
Chapter: Configuring Multi-Device Port
Authentication
Section: How multi-device port
authentication works
Enhanced show arp
command to display ARP
entries for a particular
virtual interface (VE)
The show arp command has been enhanced to
support the display of ARP entries for the
specified virtual interface (VE).
Book: BigIron RX Series Configuration
Guide
Chapter: Configuring IP
Section: Displaying the ARP cache
Enhanced command to
display STP, RSTP, and
MSTP information for a
particular Ethernet interface
The show xstp command is newly added. It
displays STP, RSTP, and MSTP protocol
information for a particular Ethernet interface.
Book: BigIron RX Series Configuration
Guide
Chapter: Configuring Spanning Tree
Protocol
Section: Displaying STP information for
the specified Ethernet interface
Chapter: Configuring Rapid Spanning
Tree Protocol
Section: Displaying RSTP information for
the specified Ethernet interface
Chapter: Multiple Spanning Tree
Protocol (MSTP) 802.1s
Section: Displaying MSTP information
for the specified Ethernet interface
Copy software image from a
flash card to the flash
memory
In Release 02.8.00 of the Multi-Service
IronWare software, a new copy command has
been added to copy the software image from a
flash card to the flash memory.
Book: BigIron RX Series Configuration
Guide
Chapter: Using a Redundant Management
Module
Section: Copying software image from a
flash card to the flash memory
Continuous System
Monitoring (Sysmon)
Continuous system monitoring (Sysmon) is
implemented in BigIron RX to monitor the
overall system operation. It monitors different
system components of a router or a switch to
determine if those components are operating
correctly.
Book: BigIron RX Series Configuration
Guide
Chapter: Continuous System Monitor

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Enhancement
Description
Described in
Enhancement in ACL
Support Brocade RX devices now support IPv4 and IPv6 ACLs on the same interface Book: BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide
Feature support
The following is a list of all the features supported on the BigIron RX switches. See Unsupported
features, for features not supported.
Supported features
The following table lists the features supported on the BigIron RX switches.
Table 2: Supported features for Release 02.8.00
Category Feature description
System level features
•Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Allows you to configure a Brocade device to intercept and display the
contents of CDP packets. This feature is useful for learning device and
interface information for Cisco devices in the network.
•CLI Logging Allows the logging of all valid CLI commands from each user session into
the system log.
•Denial of Service (DoS) protection Protection from SYN attacks
Protection from Smurf attacks
•Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP) Enables Foundry devices to advertise themselves to other Foundry devices on
the network.
•High Availability OS Layer 2 Hitless Software Upgrade
•Management Options Serial and Telnet access to industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI)
Secure Shell (SSH) version 2 (v2)
TFTP
Web-based GUI
SNMP (Version 1,Version 2, and Version 3)
IronView Network Manager

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Category Feature description
•Security
AAA Authentication
Local passwords
RADIUS
SSHv2
Secure Copy (SCP)
TACACS/TACACS+
User accounts
802.1x: All EAP types, including MD5, TLS, TTLS, and PEAP
Multi-device port authentication
Note: Telnet, SSH, Web and SNMP servers are disabled by default, and can
be enabled selectively.
•CPU protection There are no CLI commands for CPU protection. The BigIron RX forwards
unknown unicast, broadcast, and multicast packets in hardware; therefore, the
CPU is automatically protected from having to handle too many packets.
•Logging Multiple SysLogD server logging
•sFlow sFLow version 5
•Uni-directional Link Detection
(UDLD) Monitors a link between two devices and brings the ports on both ends of the
link down if the link goes down at any point between the two devices.
Layer 2 features
•802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
and
Single Spanning Tree Protocol (SSTP)
•802.1p Quality of Service (QoS) queue mapping
•802.1q see VLANs, below
•802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
•802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)

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Category Feature description
•802.1x Port Security
•802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation on tagged and untagged trunks
•Jumbo packets Layer 2 jumbo packet support
•Layer 2 Hitless failover Provides automatic failover from the active management module to the
standby management module without interrupting operation of any interface
modules in the chassis.
•Layer 2 IGMP Snooping The BigIron RX supports IGMP snooping.
•MAC Filtering MAC filtering and address-lock filters to enhance network security
•Foundry MRP Metro Ring Protocol (MRP) Phase 1 and Phase 2
•PVST / PVST+ Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST)
•Rate Limiting Port-based, port-and priority-based, port-and vlan-based, and port-and-ACL-
based rate limiting on inbound ports are supported.
•SuperSpan A Brocade STP enhancement that allows Service Providers (SPs) to use STP
in both SP networks and customer networks.
•Topology Groups A named set of VLANs that share a Layer 2 topology. You can use topology
groups with the following Layer 2 protocols:
•STP
•Foundry MRP
•VSRP
•802.1w
•Trunk Groups and LAG Allows you to manually configure multiple high-speed load-sharing links
between two devices or between a device and a server.

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Category Feature description
•VLANs 802.1Q tagging
Port-based VLANs
Super Aggregated VLANs (SAV)
Dual-mode VLAN ports
Transparent Port Flooding
VLAN ID to MSTP Instance Pre-assignment
Private VLANs
•VSRP •Layer 2 Virtual Switch Redundancy Protocol (VSRP)
Layer 3 Virtual Switch Redundancy Protocol (VSRP)
VSRP and MRP Signaling
•Layer 2 ACLs •Replaces MAC filters
•Layer 2 PIM Snooping •The BigIron RX supports PIM Snooping.
Layer 3 features
•ACLs Standard, Extended, and Super
Inbound
ACL logging
ACL editing
•BGP BGP routes
BGP peers
BGP dampening
Graceful Restart
•FDR Foundry Direct Routing
•IP Forwarding IPv4 Routing
IPv6 Routing

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Category Feature description
•IP Static entries Routes
ARPs
Virtual interfaces
Secondary addresses
•IS-IS Routes
BGP peers
BGP dampening
•Multicast Routing Multicast cache
L2 IGMP table
DVMRP routes
PIM-DM
PIM-SM
PIM-SSM
IGMP v1, v2, v3 snooping
PIM-SM snooping (IPv4 only)
•OSPF OSPF routes
OSPF adjacencies – Dynamic
OFPF LSAs
OSPF filtering of advertised routes
•PBR Policy Based Routing (Release 02.2.01 and later)
•RIP versions 1 and 2 RIP routes
•VRRP and VRRPE Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
and
VRRP Extended (VRRPE)
IPv6 features
•IPv6 ACLs Extended ACLs
•IPv6 Routing Protocols RIPng
OSPFv3
BGP4+

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Category Feature description
•IPv6 Multicast PIM-SM
MLD
Unsupported features
The following features are not supported in software release 02.8.00 on BigIron RX:
•AppleTalk
•IPX
•Mirroring across VLANs
•MPLS
•NAT
•RARP
•VLAN translation
•Subnet VLANs
•Source IP Port Security
Software image files for Multi-Service IronWare Release
02.8.00a
The following software image files are available for Multi-Service IronWare Release 02.8.00a for the
BigIron RX Series switches.
Table 3: Software image files
Module Image type Image name
Unified Image N/A rx02800a.bin
Management Module Boot and Monitor rmb02800a.bin
IronWare rmpr02800a.bin
BigIron RX-4, BigIron RX-8, and BigIron
RX-16 FPGA mbridge.xsvf

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Module Image type Image name
BigIron RX-32 mbridge32.xsvf
Interface Module Boot and Monitor rlb02800a.bin
IronWare rlp02800a.bin
Images and procedures required
The software images required and the procedures for upgrading have been changed as described in the
following sections:
•Upgrading software images based on version upgrade – This sub-section describes the procedures
required for your software upgrade depending upon the version you are upgrading from or to.
Links are provided to the required procedures.
•Displaying the version information – This sub-section describes the commands that allow you to
determine the contents of the flash memory in the BigIron RX Series switch and how to read the
output of those commands.
•Upgrading the device’s monitor and Multi-Service IronWare image – This sub-section describes
the procedures required for upgrading the BigIron RX Series switches monitor and Multi-Service
IronWare image.
•Upgrading the device’s boot images – This sub-section describes the procedures required for
upgrading the BigIron RX Series switches boot software images. [Upgrade required only if
mentioned in Release Notes]
•Rebooting the device – This sub-section describes the procedures required for rebooting the
device after upgrading the software images.
Upgrading the Multi-Service IronWare software
When performing this upgrade, you will usually need to upgrade Unified Multi-Service IronWare image.
The boot image will need to be upgraded only if it is specifically mentioned in the relevant release notes.
The steps for this upgrade include the following:
1. Determine the versions of the software images currently installed and running on the switch.
2. Upgrade the device’s Unified Multi-Service IronWare image.
3. Reboot the BigIron RX Series switch.

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4. In most cases, this is all that will be required. If you are directed by the release notes to upgrade the
boot image, use the upgrade procedure for upgrading the BigIron RX Series switches boot image,
presented later in this document.
5. Reboot the BigIron RX Series switch.
Displaying version information
Prior to upgrading the images on a BigIron RX Series switch, it is advisable to check the versions already
installed. It is also useful to check the versions installed immediately after an upgrade has been done to
make sure that you have installed the versions required in your installation. The following sections
describe how to use the show version commands to display this information.
You can display version information for a BigIron RX using the show version command as shown in the
following:
BigIron RX# show version
==========================================================================
HW: BigIron RX Router
BigIron RX-8 CHASSIS (Serial #: SA35065043, Part #: 31549-000B)
RX-BI-SFM3 Switch Fabric Module 1 (Serial #: SA43080812, Part #: 35523-201B)
FE 1: Type fe200, Version 2
FE 2: Type fe200, Version 2
FE 3: Type fe200, Version 2
RX-BI-SFM3 Switch Fabric Module 2 (Serial #: SA42081175, Part #: 35523-201B)
FE 1: Type fe200, Version 2
FE 2: Type fe200, Version 2
FE 3: Type fe200, Version 2
RX-BI-SFM3 Switch Fabric Module 3 (Serial #: SA42081159, Part #: 35523-201B)
FE 1: Type fe200, Version 2
FE 2: Type fe200, Version 2
FE 3: Type fe200, Version 2
==========================================================================
SL M2: RX-BI-MR Management Module Active (Serial #: SA11080037, Part #: 35524-
102A):
Boot : Version 2.8.0T145 Copyright (c) 1996-2010 Brocade Communications
Systems, Inc.
Compiled on Apr 20 2011 at 01:07:14 labeled as rmb02800
(439602 bytes) from boot flash
Monitor: Version 2.8.0T145 Copyright (c) 1996-2010 Brocade Communications Systems,
Inc.
Compiled on Apr 20 2011 at 01:07:14 labeled as rmb02800
(439633 bytes) from code flash
IronWare: Version 2.8.0T143 Copyright (c) 1996-2010 Brocade Communications Systems,
Inc.
Compiled on Apr 20 2011 at 01:12:50 labeled as rmpr02800
(4550480 bytes) from Primary
Board ID: 00 MBRIDGE Revisions: 21
916 MHz Power PC processor (version 8003/0101) 166 MHz bus
512 KB Boot Flash (AM29LV040B), 32 MB Code Flash (MT28F128J3)
1024 MB DRAM

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Active Management uptime is 2 minutes 2 seconds
==========================================================================
SL 1: RX-BI-24C 24-port 1 GbE Copper Module (Serial #: SA51050944, Part #: 31521-
001D)
Boot : Version 2.7.3T155 Copyright (c) 1996-2010 Brocade Communications
Systems, Inc.
Compiled on Apr 20 2011 at 15:09:22 labeled as rlb02800
(307473 bytes) from boot flash
Monitor: Version 2.8.0T155 Copyright (c) 1996-2010 Brocade Communications Systems,
Inc.
Compiled on Apr 20 2011 at 01:07:02 labeled as rlb02800b
(307473 bytes) from code flash
IronWare: Version 2.8.0T157 Copyright (c) 1996-2010 Brocade Communications Systems,
Inc.
Compiled on Apr 20 2011 at 01:16:26 labeled as rlp02800
(2340308 bytes) from Primary
FAP 1 version: 2
FAP 2 version: 2
FAP 3 version: 0
FAP 4 version: 0
660 MHz Power PC processor 440GP (version 8020/0020) 330 MHz bus
512 KB Boot Flash (AM29LV040B), 16 MB Code Flash (MT28F640J3)
512 MB DRAM, 8 KB SRAM, 0 Bytes BRAM
LP Slot 1 uptime is 59 seconds
..All show version done
The fields are described in the Code Flash and Boot Flash Information, which appears above.
Different image information
The following sections describe the various software images for the management module and interface
module.
Management Modules
The following table describes the various software images for the management module.
Table 4: Software image files for management modules
Field Description
Boot Image Indicates the boot image running in the management module. The output
displays the following information about the image:
•Version – “2.2.1Txxy” indicates the image version number. The
“Txxy” is used by Brocade for record keeping. The “xx” indicates the
hardware type, while the “y” indicates the image type.
•Size – The size, in bytes, of the image.
•Compilation date and time – The date and time that Brocade compiled
the image.

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Field Description
Monitor Image Indicates the monitor image running in the management module. The output
displays the following information about the image:
•Version – “2.2.1Txxy” indicates the image version number. The
“Txxy” is used by Brocade for record keeping. The “xx” indicates the
hardware type, while the “y” indicates the image type.
•Size – The size, in bytes, of the image.
•Compilation date and time – The date and time that Brocade compiled
the image.
IronWare Image Indicates the IronWare image running in the management module. The output
displays the following information about the image:
•Version – “2.2.1Txxy” indicates the image version number. The
“Txxy” is used by Brocade for record keeping. The “xx” indicates the
hardware type, while the “y” indicates the image type.
•Size – The size, in bytes, of the image, of the image change, and the
check sum changes.
•Compilation date and time – The date and time that Brocade compiled
the image.
Interface Modules
The following table describes the various software images for the interface module.
Table 5: Software image files for interface module
Field Description
Boot Image
Indicates the boot image running in the interface module. The output displays the
following information about the image:
•Version – “2.2.1Txxy” indicates the image version number. The
“Txxy” is used by Brocade for record keeping. The “xx” indicates the
hardware type, while the “y” indicates the image type.
•Size – The size, in bytes, of the image.
•Compilation date and time – The date and time that Brocade compiled
the image

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Field Description
Monitor Image Indicates the monitor image running in the interface module. The output displays
the following information about the image:
•Version – “2.2.1Txxy” indicates the image version number. The
“Txxy” is used by Brocade for record keeping. The “xx” indicates the
hardware type, while the “y” indicates the image type.
•Size – The size, in bytes, of the image.
•Compilation date and time – The date and time that Brocade compiled
the image.
IronWare Image Indicates the IronWare image running in the interface module. The output
displays the following information about the image:
•Version – “2.2.1Txxy” indicates the image version number. The
“Txxy” is used by Brocade for record keeping. The “xx” indicates the
hardware type, while the “y” indicates the image type.
•Size – The size, in bytes, of the image, of the image change, and the
check sum changes.
•Compilation date and time – The date and time that Brocade compiled
the image.
FPGA Version Information The following Images are only displayed from the show version command:
•MBRIDGE Revision – The version number of the MBRIDGE FPGA
installed on the management module for the BigIron RX-16/8/4
•MBRIDGE32 Revision – The version number of the MBRIDGE32
FPGA installed on the management module for the BigIron RX-32.
•SBRIDGE Revision – The version number of the SBRIDGE FPGA
installed on the switch fabric module for the BigIron RX-32 .
Backing up the current software images
Before performing a software upgrade, Brocade recommends backing up the following current software
images in the device’s flash memory.
Syntax:: cp <original-file-name> <backup-file-name>
Unified software image upgrade
You can use the unified software image upgrade procedure to upgrade the monitor and the Multi-Service
IronWare image of both management and interface modules. You can use the following command to
upgrade the images. You can set parameters to limit images being copied and to direct images to be
copied to the secondary image location to a later release.

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1. Copy the unified software image (rx02800a.bin) from a TFTP server to the switch.
For example, to copy the entire unified software image from a TFTP server at IP address 10.10.12.12,
use the following command.
BigIron RX# copy tftp image 10.10.12.12 rx02800a.bin
2. Reboot the management module using the reload command.
3. If you are using SSH v2, you must clear the crypto key using the crypto key zeroize command after
you upgrade. Then, regenerate a new crypto key using the crypto key generate command.
This is the most common upgrade method. After reload all the cards in the system will be running the
new monitor and Multi-Service IronWare image.
You can also upgrade the boot images of the Management module and the interface module using the
unified software image upgrade command along with the monitor and system image. This should be done
only if it is mentioned in the release notes that the upgrade of the boot images are necessary. We can use
the following option with the above mentioned command to upgrade boot image along with monitor and
system image as shown below.
BigIron RX# copy tftp image 10.10.12.12 rx02800a.bin lp-boot mp-boot
Syntax: copy tftp image <TFTP-server-ip-addr> <image-name> [lp-boot | lp-sec | mp-boot | mp-sec |
mbridge]
The <TFTP-server-ip-addr> variable is the IP address for the TFTP server you are downloading the image
from.
The <image-name> variable is the name of the unified software image you want to download to the
switch.
The lp-boot parameter specifies that you want to download the new interface module boot image.
The lp-sec parameter specifies that interface image be copied to the secondary location in flash.
The mbridge parameter tells the BigIron RX to copy the MBRIDGE image. It will now include two
MBRIDGES; one for BigIron RX-16/8/4 (mbridge.xsvf) and one for the BigIron RX-32(mbridge32.xsvf).
The mp-boot parameter specifies that you want to download the new management module boot image.
The mp-sec parameter specifies that management image be copied to the secondary location in flash
Upgrading the images independently
Note: Using the unified approach is the easier single step process and also the preferred one.
If you do not want to use the unified software upgrade procedure to upgrade your modules boot, monitor
and system images, you can do them one by one separately, as described in the sections below.
Upgrading the monitor and boot images on the management module
To upgrade the monitor and boot images on the management module, perform the following steps:
1. Place the new boot images on a TFTP server to which the BigIron RX system has access or on a
PCMCIA flash card inserted in slot 1 or slot 2.
2. Copy the new monitor and boot images to the BigIron RX. Enter one of the following commands at
the Privileged EXEC level of the CLI (For example: BigIron RX#):

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Table 6: Command syntax for upgrading monitor and boot images
on the management module
Command syntax Description
copy tftp flash <TFTP-server-ip-addr> <image-name>
mon Copies the latest monitor image from the TFTP server to
flash.
copy tftp flash <TFTP-server-ip-addr> <image-name>
boot Copies the latest boot images from the TFTP server to flash.
copy tftp flash <TFTP-server-ip-addr> <image-name>
mon copy-boot Copies the latest monitor and boot images from the TFTP
server to flash.
For example, to copy the management module boot and monitor image from TFTP server 10.10.12.12,
enter the following command.
BigIron RX# copy tftp flash 10.10.12.12 rmb02800a.bin mon copy-boot
3. Verify that the new monitor and boot images have been successfully copied to flash or slot 1 or slot 2
by entering one of the following commands at the Privileged EXEC level of the CLI:
BigIron RX# show flash
BigIron RX# dir /<path-name>/ (if the destination was slot 1 or slot 2) and check for the boot
image, monitor image, and the date and time at which the new images were built.
4. If you want to upgrade other software images, go to the appropriate upgrade section for information.
If you have completed upgrading the software images, you must reboot the management module to
complete the upgrade process.
Upgrading the IronWare image on the management module
To upgrade the IronWare image (primary or secondary) on the management module, perform the
following steps:
1. Place the new IronWare image on a TFTP server to which the BigIron RX system has access or on a
PCMCIA flash card inserted in slot 1 or slot 2.
2. Copy the new IronWare image from the TFTP server or a flash card in slot 1 or slot 2 to the
management module’s code flash or a flash card in slot 1 or slot 2.
To perform this step, enter one of the following commands at the Privileged EXEC level of the CLI
(For example: BigIron RX#):

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Table 7: Command syntax for upgrading IronWare image on the management module
Command syntax Description
copy tftp flash <TFTP-server-ip-addr> <image-name>
primary | secondary Copies the images from the TFTP server to the primary or
secondary locations in flash memory.
copy tftp slot1 | slot2 <TFTP-server-ip-addr> <image-
name> primary | secondary Copies the images from the TFTP server to a flash card.
copy slot1 | slot2 flash <image-name> primary |
secondary Copies the images from a flash card to the primary or
secondary locations in flash memory.
copy slot1 | slot2 slot1 | slot2 <image-name> <dest-
name> Copies the images from a flash card in slot 1 or slot 2 to another flash card in slot 1 or slot 2.
For example, to copy the management module’s Ironware image from TFTP server 10.10.12.12 to
flash memory, enter the following command.
BigIron RX# copy tftp flash 10.10.12.12 rmpr02800a.bin primary
3. Verify that the new IronWare image has been successfully copied to the specified destination by
entering one of the following commands at the Privileged EXEC level of the CLI:
BigIron RX# show flash (if the destination was code flash) BigIron RX# dir /<path-name>/ (if
the destination was slot 1 or slot 2)
Check for the primary or secondary image and the date and time that it was placed in the directory.
4. If you want to upgrade other software images, go to the appropriate upgrade section for information.
If you have completed upgrading the software images, you must reboot the management module to
complete the upgrade process. For more information, see Rebooting the management module.
Upgrading the monitor and boot images on the interface module
Note: We recommend that you perform this upgrade procedure from a PC or terminal that is directly
connected to the management module console port. You can also perform this procedure using a Telnet or
SSHv2 session.
To upgrade monitor and boot images simultaneously on an interface module, perform the following steps:
1. Place the new monitor and boot images on a TFTP server to which the BigIron RX system has access
or on a PCMCIA flash card inserted in slot 1 or slot 2.
2. Copy the new monitor and boot images to the BigIron RX. Enter one of the following commands at
the Privileged EXEC level of the CLI (For example: BigIron RX#):