Brocade Network OS NETCONF Operations Guide v4.1.1 User Manual
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Network OS NETCONF Operations Guide
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Time management with NETCONF overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Setting the time zone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Retrieving the current local clock and time zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Removing the time zone setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Synchronizing the local time with an external source . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Retrieving an NTP server IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Removing an NTP server IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Installing and Maintaining Firmware
Firmware upgrade with NETCONF overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Preparing for a firmware download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Obtaining the switch firmware version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Obtaining and decompressing firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Connecting to the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Downloading the firmware from a remote server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Downloading firmware from a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Evaluating a firmware upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Downloading firmware to a single partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Commiting the firmware upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Restoring the previous firmware version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Firmware upgrade in Brocade VCS Fabric mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Licensing with NETCONF overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Retrieving the switch license ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Installing or removing a license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Activating the Dynamic POD feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Obtaining the Dynamic POD assignments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Overriding Dynamic POD assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Reserving a port assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Releasing a port from a POD set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70