Dell Brocade 5100 Brocade 7.3.0 Fabric OS Software Upgrade Guide - Page 3

Contents Preface...3 Document conventions 3 Text formatting conventions 3 Command syntax conventions 3 Notes, cautions, and warnings 4 Brocade resources 5 Contacting Brocade Technical Support 5 Document feedback 6 About This Document...7 Supported hardware and software 7 What's new in this document 8 Installing and Maintaining Firmware 9 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 Preparing for a Firmware Download 15 Prerequisites 15 Obtaining and decompressing firmware 15 Connected switches 16 Finding the switch firmware version 16 Firmware Download Scenarios 17 Firmware download on switches 17 Switch firmware download process overview 17 Upgrading firmware for Brocade fixed-port switches 18 Firmware download on a Backbone 19 Backbone firmware download process overview 19 Upgrading firmware on Backbones (including blades 19 Firmware download from a USB device 21 Enabling the USB device 22 Viewing the USB file system 22 Downloading from the USB device using the relative path 22 Downloading from the USB device using the absolute path 22 FIPS support 22 Public and private key management 22 The firmwareDownload command 23 Fabric OS Upgrade Guide 1 53-1003240-01