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This chapter covers the tasks required for maintaining a Cache Engine or a Cache Engine farm:
You can upgrade your system by obtaining the software from Cisco Connection Online (CCO).
Two types of Cache Engine software files are available on CCO to download, files with the .pax suffix and files with the .bin suffix. The .pax file contains the full-image software with the GUI and is the file routinely installed. The .bin file software is for recovery situations that require booting from the network, or restoring Flash memory. Refer to the next section, "Recovering the Cache Engine System Software," for instructions on upgrading your system image with the .bin file.
The following procedure describes how to upgrade the Cache Engine system software and optionally change the boot parameters.
Step 2 From the Windows NT or UNIX machine, use FTP to put the new image file (for example, ce500-200.pax) in the Cache Engine /local directory.
If you are using a command line FTP client, perform the following substeps to put the .pax file on the Cache Engine. In the example, the Cache Engine IP address is 192.168.88.89:
a. At the command line of your Window NT or UNIX host, enter:
ftp 192.168.88.89
b. Enter the Cache Engine user login and password when prompted.
c. The default FTP directory of the Cache Engine should be /local. Use the cd command as follows to make sure that you are in the /local directory of the Cache Engine:
cd /local
d. Set the FTP client to binary transfer mode:
bin
e. Put the .pax file on the Cache Engine. For example, if the upgrade software filename is ce500-200.pax, enter:
put ce500-200.pax
Step 3 Log on to the Cache Engine through the console port.
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Note Upgrading software can be done through Telnet, but the connection is broken when the Cache Engine reboots. |
Step 4 At the Cache Engine command prompt, enter install to install the image files. For example, if the filename is ce550-210.pax, enter:
console# install ce550-210.pax Extracting . Extracting ./imgname.txt Extracting ./etc Extracting ./etc/boot ... (etc) Extracting ./lib/gui/snmp Extracting ./lib/gui/snmp/CISCO-CACHEENGINE-MIB.my Extracting ./lib/gui/snmp/CISCO-SMI.my Extracting ./[image_name].bin.dbg.cus1 File extraction done. ce25.pax: installation is complete. Copy new image '[image_name].bin' to flash memory?[no]: y Erasing Programming erasing program image sector. 100% complete... You may type [reload] to reboot your box now
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Note Be sure to copy the new image to Flash memory. The Cache Engine will not run the updated software version until the image is stored in memory and you reboot the system. If you choose not to copy the image to Flash memory when prompted, you can do so later by entering copy diskflash filename, where filename is the name of the image file. |
Step 5 From the Cache Engine console, enter reload to reboot the Cache Engine:
console# reload Proceed with reload? [confirm] y 303949 bytes copying bootagent boot start: 0x7fee000 starting new system - entry 0x8010 0x7dc8800 (tCallback0): NCR810_ Press any key to stop auto-boot...
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Note If you have not saved your most recent configuration to Flash memory (NVRAM), you will be asked to do so before rebooting the Cache Engine. |
If you want to stop the auto-boot process to change default boot parameters, perform the following steps (console connection only):
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Note In the example, the Cache Engine boot device parameter is changed from net to flash. |
a. Press any key during the auto-boot sequence.
b. Enter c at the prompt to change the auto-boot settings.
c. At the boot device prompt, enter flash.
d. At the filename prompt, press Ctrl-D to quit the change-default-boot-parameter sequence.
e. At the console prompt, enter @.
Press any key to stop auto-boot... [CE500 Series]: c '.' = clear field; '-' = go to previous field; ^D = quit boot device (flash,net) [ net]: flash filename [ ]: ^D . . [CE500 Series]: @
Step 6 When the boot process is complete, verify the software version with the
show version command:
console# show version Cisco Cache Engine Copyright (c) 1986-1999 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Software Release: CE ver 2.10 (Build: #1 04/07/00) Compiled: 13:47:15 Apr 6 2000 by morlee Image text-base 0x108000, data_base 0x392244 System restarted by Reload The system has been up for 0 weeks, 0 day, 0 hours, 1 minutes, 10 seconds. System booted from "flash"
The Cache Engine can be booted from a system image resident on another network host (booted from the network) if the native onboard image is corrupted. A corrupted system image can result from a power failure that occurs while the installation procedure is updating the Flash memory. When the Cache Engine is booted from the network, a new Flash memory image can be installed.
Recovery software is available from Cisco Connection Online (CCO). Make sure to download the correct .bin file for your model of Cache Engine.
To reboot the Cache Engine with recovery software, perform the following steps:
Step 2 Stop the auto-boot process by pressing any key.
a. Enter c to change the auto-boot settings.
b. Enter net for the boot device type.
c. Enter the appropriate CCO filename, cache IP address, IPO network mask, server IP address, gateway IP address, protocol (FTP or TFTP), user name, and password.
Press any key to stop auto-boot... 6 [CE500 Series]: c '.' = clear field; '-' = go to previous field; ^D = quit boot device (flash,net) [ flash]: net filename [ ]: /Path/filename.bin cache IP address [ ]: 10.3.1.3 IP network mask [ ]: 255.255.255.0 server IP address [ ]: 171.69.63.242 gateway IP address [ ]: 10.3.1.2 protocol (rcp,ftp,tftp) [ ]: ftp username [ ]: name password [ ]: password flags [ 0]:
Step 3 Enter @ to start the boot sequence.
[CE500 Series]: [CE500 Series]: @ boot device (flash,net) [ net]: filename [/CCO Path/filename.bin]: cache IP address [ 10.3.1.3]: IP network mask [ 255.255.255.0]: server IP address [ 172.16.63.242]: gateway IP address [ 10.3.1.2]: protocol (rcp,ftp,tftp) [ ftp]: username [ name]: password [ password]: flags [ 0]: Loading from the network Attaching network interface fei0... done. Attaching network interface lo0... done. Loading... Starting at 0x108000... .................. Console IO Initialized Attaching network interface lo0... done. Restricted Rights Legend Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted Rights clause at FAR sec. 52.227-19 and subparagraph (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS sec. 252.227-7013. Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, California 95134-1706 Cisco Cache Engine Copyright (c) 1986-2000 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Software Release: CE ver 2.10 (Build: #01 03/03/2000) Compiled: 18:09:47 May 10 1999 by morlee Image text-base 0x108000, data_base 0x42bea4 System restarted by Power Up The system has been up for 0 seconds. System booted from fei SVCINIT - phase complete Initializing SCSI interface... Initializing SCSI controller... Configuring SCSI peripherals... ID LUN VendorID ProductID Rev. Type Blocks BlkSize pScsiPhysDev -- --- -------- ---------------- ---- ---- -------- ------- 0 0 QUANTUM VIKING II 9.1SCA 4110 0 17836668 512 0x00fc9458 DEVINIT - phase complete FSINIT - phase complete Configuring from NVRAM... %% Non-volatile configuration memory has not been set up CONF - phase complete NTP: Waiting (2 minutes) for network initialization START - phase complete
Step 4 Reconfigure the Cache Engine with the basic network settings. You can modify the system configuration later using the command-line interface (CLI).
---- System Configuration Dialog ---- You may use Ctrl-D to abort Configuration Dialog at any prompt. Would you like to enter the initial configuration? [yes]: y host name: mycache domain name: myfirm.com admin password: iforget cache IP address: 1.1.1.1 IP network mask: 255.255.230.2 gateway IP address:10.10.10.10 DNS server:yo
If the basic configuration is acceptable, enter yes. The Cache Engine indicates if the configuration is accepted. At this point, the basic configuration is finished.
Use this configuration? [yes]: y Building configuration... . . START - phase complete
Step 5 Log in to the Cache Engine with your new admin password. Verify that you are running the correct version by entering show version.
Username: admin Password: test cache# cache# show version Cisco Cache Engine Copyright (c) 1986-1998 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Software Release: Compiled: 17:08:40 Mar 24 1999 by morlee Image text-base 0x108000, data_base 0x419d2c
Step 6 To operate the Cache Management Interface GUI and boot from Flash memory in the future, see the "Upgrading the System Software" section to download the .pax file from CCO and install the .pax file.
You can now use the Cache Management Interface GUI or the CLI to enable WCCP or proxy mode and start caching.
The Cache Engine is equipped with one or more disks that are properly partitioned at the factory before shipment. For the Model 505, the one disk has the DOS file system (dosfs) and cache file system (cfs) partitions. For Models 550 and 570, the first disk has dosfs and cfs partitions, and the second disk is partitioned with cfs only. The dosfs partition contains the image file, user interface images, and memory for system output from features such as syslog.
For Model 505, the disk (disk 0) is located in the center of the Cache Engine. On Models 550 and 570, the first disk (disk 0) is located to the left of the second disk (disk 1).
To verify that a disk is partitioned correctly, execute the show disk-partitions command. To display the volume names, execute the show disks command.
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Note The UVFAT partition refers to the dosfs. The BFS partition refers to the boot file system, which is currently not used. |
Console# show disk-partitions /c0t0d0
Disk size : 17836667 sectors
Partition 1: CISCO_UVFAT_1, offset 63 sectors, size 3906250 sectors
Partition 2: CISCO_BFS_1, offset 3906323 sectors, size 1024 sectors
Partition 3: CISCO_CFS_1, offset 3907357 sectors, size 13929300 sectors
Partition 4: UNUSED, offset 0 sectors, size 0 sectors
Console# show disk-partitions /c0t1d0
Disk size : 17836667 sectors
Partition 1: UNUSED, offset 0 sectors, size 0 sectors
Partition 2: CISCO_BFS_1, offset 10 sectors, size 1024 sectors
Partition 3: CISCO_CFS_1, offset 1044 sectors, size 17835613 sectors
Partition 4: UNUSED, offset 0 sectors, size 0 sectors
Console# show disks
/c0t0d0 (scsi bus 0, unit 0, lun 0)
/c0t1d0 (scsi bus 0, unit 1, lun 0)
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Note The name of disk 0 is /c0t0d0; the name of disk 1 is /c0t1d0. |
At any time, you can use the show cfs volumes and show dosfs volumes commands to verify volume status.
Console# show cfs volumes /c0t0d0s3: mounted /c0t1d0s3: mounted Console# show dosfs volumes /c0t0d0s1: mounted /c0t1d0s1: mounted /local: mounted
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Note You can substitute the alias /local for the dosfs volume name /c0t0d0. |
The dosfs partition may be unmounted if the dosfs unmount command was executed. If the dosfs partition is unmounted, mount the dosfs partition using the dosfs mount command.
If the dosfs mount command does not work properly, execute the
show disk-partitions command. Check for the UVFAT partition. The size of the dosfs partition should be approximately 2 gigabytes. A sector is equal to 512 bytes. If there is no disk partition for the dosfs, see the next section, "Repartitioning the Cache Engine Disks."
If the dosfs volume does not mount, perform the procedure in the "Checking and Repairing DOS File System Volumes" section. If the dosfs volume still does not mount after you perform this procedure, repartition and reformat the disks as described in the next section, "Repartitioning the Cache Engine Disks."
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Caution Anytime a volume is partitioned or formatted (dosfs or cfs), all the data on the disk is lost. |
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Caution Whenever a disk is partitioned, all the data on the disk is lost. |
To repartition disk 0, which is the location of the dosfs partition, execute the
disk partition command.
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Note The name of disk 0 is /c0t0d0; the name of disk 1 is /c0t1d0. |
Console# disk partition /c0t0d0 dosfs cfs this will create a dos partition and cfs partition total size of disk = 17836667 CISCO_UVFAT_1 vol /c0t0d0s1 part_off 63 part_siz 3906250 CISCO_BFS_1 vol /c0t0d0s2 part_off 3906323 part_siz 1024 CISCO_CFS_1 vol /c0t0d0s3 part_off 3907357 part_siz 13929300
It is also possible to repartition only the dosfs of disk 0 using the disk partition command, excluding the cfs keyword.
Console# disk partition /c0t0d0 dosfs total size of disk = 17836667 CISCO_UVFAT_1 vol /c0t0d0s1 part_off 63 part_siz 3906250 CISCO_BFS_1 vol /c0t0d0s2 part_off 3906323 part_siz 1024 CISCO_CFS_1 vol /c0t0d0s3 part_off 0 part_siz 0 Skipping creation of CFS partition for SCSI device
To repartition disk 1, execute the disk partition command.
Console# disk partition /c0t1d0 cfs total size of disk = 17836667 CISCO_UVFAT_1 vol /c0t1d0s1 part_off 0 part_siz 0 Skipping creation of DOS partition for SCSI device CISCO_BFS_1 vol /c0t1d0s2 part_off 10 part_siz 1024 CISCO_CFS_1 vol /c0t1d0s3 part_off 1044 part_siz 17835613
Following a repartition, you must format and mount the dosfs and cfs using the following commands:
If the first disk is reformatted, all the cache data is lost as well as all data in the dosfs partition. It will be necessary to reinstall the software image as well as the user interface images. See the "Recovering the Cache Engine System Software" section.
If the second disk is reformatted, all the cache data on that disk (cfs) is lost. The Cache Engine will repopulate the disk with regular use.
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Note If the dosfs partition is not mounted correctly, an error message may be generated from the CLI. An example of this error message is shown below. |
Console# cli command Could not get stat information about /local <====
The dosfs partition may be corrupted if a power outage occurs while the Cache Engine is writing to the disk, or if the disk is removed while writing to the dosfs partitions.
If there is a problem caused by the corrupted dosfs FAT table, perform the following steps:
Step 2 If an error message occurs, execute the dosfs unmount /local command.
Step 3 Execute the dosfs repair auto /local command.
Step 4 Execute the dosfs mount /local command.
Step 5 If the dosfs mount fails after you execute the dosfs repair command, execute the dosfs format command followed by the dosfs mount command.
If you are working in the current working directory of /local, you may see the following error message:
Could not get stat information about /local.
You can execute the cd / command to avoid this error message.
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Note Executing the dosfs check command effectively prevents system features (such as syslog or transaction logging) from writing to the disk. Disregard error messages generated by these features after executing the dosfs check command as shown in the following example. |
Console# dosfs check /local tSyslog: Cannot write log to Disk File (/local/var/log/syslog.txt), OK
If a user password is forgotten, lost, or misconfigured, perform the following steps to reset the password:
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Note There is no way to restore a lost password. You must reset the password to a new one, as described in this procedure. |
Step 2 Break to the bootstrap program prompt and press any key before the Cache Engine completes the auto-boot sequence.
a. Enter c to change the auto-boot settings.
b. Enter net for boot device type.
c. Enter c to change the auto-boot settings.
d. Enter net for boot device type.
e. Enter c to change the auto-boot settings.
f. Enter flash for the boot device type.
Press any key to stop auto-boot... 7 [PRESS ANY KEY NOW before the cache engine auto reboots] [CE500 Series]:c boot device (flash,net) [ net]: flash filename [ filename]: cache IP address [ 10.1.138.5]: IP network mask [ 255.255.255.0]: server IP address [ 171.69.63.242]: gateway IP address [ 10.1.138.1]: protocol (rcp,ftp,tftp) [ ]: username [ ]: password [ ]: flags [ 0]: 0x8000 [CE500 Series]:@
Step 3 Change the configuration flags field to 0x8000 (as shown above). Then enter @ to continue with the boot sequence.
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Note Setting this flag to 0x8000 lets you into the system, bypassing all security. |
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Note Setting this flag to 0x4000 lets you bypass the NVRAM configuration. |
Step 4 Once you get the CLI prompt, set the password for the user using the user modify username name password new-password command in the global configuration mode.
Step 5 Use the write command to save the configuration change.
By default, the Cache Engine has an "admin" user with no password set. When no password is set, you can enter anything as a password.
Use the following sample configurations as a guide for setting up your Cache Engine. Remember that if a feature is not enabled, it will not appear in the running configuration, though any settings configured for that feature will be included.
The following is a sample WCCP Version 1 configuration:
Current configuration: ! ! logging event-export critical-events alert kernel logging 10.7.8.9 ! group add admin gid 0 group add everyone gid 1000 ! user add admin uid 0 password 1 "ceSzbyeb" capability admin-access user add britt uid 5001 password 1 "bbdze9eSbS" capability telnet-access ! ! ! hostname cache1D ! interface ethernet 0 ip address 10.1.1.34 255.255.255.0 ip broadcast-address 10.1.1.255 exit ! ! interface ethernet 1 exit ! ip default-gateway 10.1.1.2 ip name-server 10.2.2.2 ip domain-name cisco.com cron file /local/etc/crontab ntp server 10.6.14.7 ! ! http proxy incoming 8080 icp server remote-client 10.4.6.8 no-fetch url-filter good-sites-allow wccp home-router 10.1.2.1 wccp version 1 ! transaction-logs destination disk transaction-logs interval 750 ! trusted-host 10.4.4.4 ! end cache1D#
The following is a sample WCCP Version 2 configuration:
Building configuration... Current configuration: ! ! logging event-export critical-events alert kernel logging 10.7.8.9 ! group add admin gid 0 group add everyone gid 1000 ! user add admin uid 0 password 1 "ceSzbyeb" capability admin-access user add britt uid 5001 password 1 "bbdze9eSbS" capability telnet-access ! ! hostname cache1D ! interface ethernet 0 ip address 10.1.1.34 255.255.255.0 ip broadcast-address 10.1.1.255 exit ! ! interface ethernet 1 exit ! ip default-gateway 10.1.1.2 ip name-server 10.63.69.64 ip domain-name cisco.com cron file /local/etc/crontab ntp server 10.6.14.7 ! ! http proxy incoming 8080 http cluster max-delay 7 misses 200 icp client add-remote-server 10.4.1.8 parent icp-port 3130 http-port 8080 url-filter good-sites-allow wccp router-list 1 10.1.2.1 wccp router-list 3 10.3.1.1 10.4.2.1 wccp web-cache router-list 1 wccp version 2 wccp auth-bypass timer 3 ! transaction-logs destination disk transaction-logs interval 750 ! trusted-host 10.32.31.132 trusted-host 10.32.4.198 ! end cache1D#
You can remove a Cache Engine from a Cache Engine cluster or from a WCCP environment without losing any settings, and without powering off the unit. To remove a Cache Engine, disable the running version of WCCP by issuing the
no wccp version 1 (or 2) command. The Cache Engine will still service proxy-style requests.
Posted: Mon May 1 18:48:21 PDT 2000
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