Cisco WS-C2960-24TC-S Software Guide - Page 676

Working with Software Images Appendix B Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images The algorithm installs the downloaded image onto the system board flash device (flash:). The image is placed into a new directory named with the software version string, and the BOOT environment variable is updated to point to the newly installed image. If you kept the old image during the download process (you specified the /leave-old-sw keyword), you can remove it by entering the delete /force /recursive filesystem:/file-url privileged EXEC command. For filesystem, use flash: for the system board flash device. For file-url, enter the directory name of the old software image. All the files in the directory and the directory are removed. Caution For the download and upload algorithms to operate properly, do not rename image names. Uploading an Image File By Using FTP You can upload an image from the switch to an FTP server. You can later download this image to the same switch or to another switch of the same type. Use the upload feature only if the web management pages associated with the embedded device manager have been installed with the existing image. Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to upload an image to an FTP server: Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Command Purpose Verify that the FTP server is properly configured by referring to the "Preparing to Download or Upload a Configuration File By Using FTP" section on page B-12. Log into the switch through the console port or a Telnet session. configure terminal Enter global configuration mode. This step is required only if you override the default remote username or password (see Steps 4, 5, and 6). ip ftp username username (Optional) Change the default remote username. ip ftp password password (Optional) Change the default password. end Return to privileged EXEC mode. archive upload-sw ftp:[[//[username[:password]@]location]/directory]/ image-name.tar Upload the currently running switch image to the FTP server. • For //username:password, specify the username and password. These must be associated with an account on the FTP server. For more information, see the "Preparing to Download or Upload an Image File By Using FTP" section on page B-29. • For @location, specify the IP address of the FTP server. • For /directory/image-name.tar, specify the directory (optional) and the name of the software image to be uploaded. Directory and image names are case sensitive. The image-name.tar is the name of the software image to be stored on the server. B-32 Catalyst 2960 Switch Software Configuration Guide OL-8603-04