H3C Technologies H3C S9500 Series Switches - Manual (Page 120)

Installation Manual
H3C S9500 Series Routing Switches
Chapter 6 Switch Monitoring and Maintenance
6-11
Caution:
Install a new fan tray soon after removing the old one to ensure the normal working of
the Switch.
6.3 Software Upgrade
6.3.1 Upgrade preparations
The S9502/S9505/S9508 software can be maintained in the same way as that for the
S9512, so S9512 is used as an example in the following software maintenance
process.
I. Requried cables
z Console cable (for serial interface)
z One crossover and one standard network cables
z Debug cable (for serial interface)
II. Recommended upgrade procedure
1) Confirm if the host program has loaded before initiating software upgrade.
2) Check the current version of the host and Boot ROM programs.
3) Back up the current host program, Boot ROM program and configuration file (to
PC recommended), for possible rollback in case of failed upgrade.
4) Load the host and Boot ROM program files to the switch. If the switch has two
SRPUs, you also can copy the host and Boot ROM program files to the standby
SRPU.
5) Upgrade the Boot ROM program on the SRPU and LPU (optional).
6) Specify the next boot program. If the switch has two SRPUs, specify the load
programs respectively for the active and standby SRPUs.
7) Reboot the switch.
8) Check if the board version is correct.
You can load the software through command line interface (CLI) and Boot menu.
9) Local loading using Boot menu:
z Loading using XModem and through Console port
z Loading using TFTP and through Ethernet port
z Loading using FTP and through Ethernet port
10) Local or remote loading through CLI:
z Loading using FTP
z Loading using TFTP