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firmware download ftp

By default, firmware download downloads the firmware to the system, reboots the system, and
commits the firmware automatically. The user can specify noactivate to download the firmware to
the system without activating it (the node is not rebooted). The user can run firmware activate later
to activate the firmware.

Command Modes

Privileged EXEC mode

Description

Use this command to download firmware from an external host.

The device components supported by this command have two partitions of nonvolatile storage
(primary and secondary) to store two firmware images. This command always downloads the new
image to the secondary partition and then swaps partitions, so the secondary partition becomes
the primary partition.

By default, the firmware download process reboots the system and activates the new image.
Finally, the process performs a firmware commit operation to copy the new image to the other
partition.

Usage Guidelines

This command supports firmware upgrades on the local switch only.

This command does not support pagination.

If the firmware download is interrupted because of an unexpected reboot as a result of a software
error or power failure, the command automatically recovers the corrupted secondary partition.
Wait for the recovery to complete before starting another firmware download.

Examples

None