topic Copy firmware from secondary to primary in ExtremeSwitching (EXOS/Switch Engine)

Copy firmware from secondary to primary

Alok_Shukla — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:29:00 GMT

What command do we use to copy the firmware from secondary to primary?

RE: Copy firmware from secondary to primary

Terren_Crider — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:32:00 GMT

Firstly, I have no idea what the command would be or if it exists. Secondly, why would you want to do this? It doesn't matter what partition it is on. So long as you boot to which one you want, you're good.

RE: Copy firmware from secondary to primary

Robert_Cummins — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:35:00 GMT

You do not copy firmwares between partitions, you simply boot from a different partition.

RE: Copy firmware from secondary to primary

aloeffle — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:58:00 GMT

Hi all.

I have the same question as Alok.

One example is during the staging process. I want to have the latest version on both partitions.

If there is a command to copy the image from one partition to the other, I only need to transfer the image only once from my TFTP/SCP-Server.

Second example is, if you have several devices, which have different images in primary and secondary partition and you need to align both partition. With a copy command, this can be done without the need of the image file itself.

What do you think?

regards

Alexander

RE: Copy firmware from secondary to primary

Robert_Cummins — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:58:00 GMT

What benefit do you receive by having the same image in both partitions? In my opinion, this is a bad idea. You leave the last-known-good image in one partition and the new image in another. If you find a compatibility problem in the new firmware you easily roll back to the old, known good image and you are done. Yes, it is nice to have partitions aligned for managing at scale but that is easily done during a single maintenance window.

RE: Copy firmware from secondary to primary

aloeffle — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:58:00 GMT

Hi Robert. From my experience, after some weeks of testing, the "new image" has become the chosen one for that device. From then, we don't go back to the former last-known-good. Now it would be nice just to copy the image to the other partition.

RE: Copy firmware from secondary to primary

Ponzi — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 03:46:00 GMT

Would make sense to be able to do this for staging. You need to be on the same version of firmware on the and booted on the same partition when creating a stack.

If you had the ability to copy from Pri over to Sec it could save you time when trying to add a switch to be a stack member if it already has the right firmware on it just on the wrong partition.

I’m guessing by the age of the post that there is no progress on this and there wont be.

RE: Copy firmware from secondary to primary

Drew_C — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 03:51:00 GMT

Hi everyone! Take a look at this new feature, added in EXOS 30.2:

https://documentation.extremenetworks.com/release_notes/ExtremeXOS/30.2/GUID-DEAF9A81-8879-4CE6-AEBA-77C9152AF53A.shtml