Cisco 11503 Administration Guide - Page 357

Appendix B Using the Offline Diagnostic Monitor Menu Specifying a Network-Mounted File System as the Primary Boot Record Set Network as the primary boot record when you want to boot the CSS from a network-mounted file system on a remote system using FTP. Instead of the CSS disk, the network file system contains the CSS software. The CSS boots from this file system and loads the configuration into memory. Perform a network boot when: • You want multiple CSSs to use the same boot image while keeping their own configuration information. You provide an alternate path for the location of the configuration information. However, this information must exist on the same network file system with the boot image. Note When using an alternate configuration path, make sure the path leads to a directory containing the script, log, and info subdirectories. These subdirectories must contain the files in the corresponding subdirectories in the boot image. First, create these subdirectories on the FTP server, then copy the files from the boot image to the subdirectories. • The CSS has a disk failure. A network boot allows the CSS to boot independently from its disk and to load the configuration into memory. Before the CSS can boot from the network: • Locate the remote system on the network where you want to copy the CSS software. - Make sure the CSS can access the system using FTP. - Copy the CSS software .zip file from www.cisco.com onto the designated network server. - Create a directory and unzip the file into it. This directory will contain all of the boot files and directories. • On the CSS, create an FTP record to the directory containing the CSS software on the network drive. OL-5647-02 Cisco Content Services Switch Administration Guide B-7