Brocade Fabric OS Upgrade Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual
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Contents
Text formatting conventions.................................................................. 3
Command syntax conventions.............................................................. 3
Notes, cautions, and warnings.............................................................. 4
Brocade resources............................................................................................ 5
Contacting Brocade Technical Support.............................................................5
Document feedback.......................................................................................... 6
Supported hardware and software.................................................................... 7
What’s new in this document............................................................................ 8
Firmware download process overview.............................................................. 9
Upgrading and downgrading firmware............................................................ 10
Passwordless firmware download...................................................................10
Considerations for FICON CUP environments................................................11
HA sync state.................................................................................................. 11
Displaying the HA redundancy status................................................. 12
Enabling automatic firmware synchronization from active CP to
the standby CP.............................................................................. 13
Manually synchronizing the firmware from the active CP to the
standby CP.................................................................................... 13
Prerequisites................................................................................................... 15
Obtaining and decompressing firmware..........................................................15
Connected switches........................................................................................ 16
Finding the switch firmware version................................................................ 16
Switch firmware download process overview......................................17
Upgrading firmware for Brocade fixed-port switches.......................... 18
Firmware download on a Backbone................................................................19
Firmware download from a USB device..........................................................21
Public and private key management................................................... 22
The firmwareDownload command...................................................... 23
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