Managing System Software

This chapter describes the Software Upgrade page and how to manage system software.

To facilitate management of the Cisco IOS images, the Cisco ICS 7700 System Manager includes a software library that stores Cisco IOS images. You can then display the images and deliver them to the various system cards.

To access the System Cards/Image Table, shown in Figure 6-1, click the Software Upgrade tab, which displays the system components and the Cisco IOS image that is running on each component.

This page contains three tables: The System Cards / Image table, the Software Library, and the History Log. This page also contains a link so that you can add images to the software library and three links at the bottom of the page which jump to each of the three tables.

Figure 6-1: Software Upgrade Page

Displayed information includes the following:

System Card—The name of the hardware component.

Address—The MAC address and the component slot number.
Type—The type of hardware component, for example, the Multiservice Route Processor (MRP).
Image—The image name and version running on the component.

The Software Library table includes an Action column you can use for the following tasks:

Delivering an image to a system card.
Displaying detailed information about an image.
Deleting an image from the software library.

Adding a Cisco IOS Image

To add a image to the system software library, do the following:

Step 1 Click the Add Image link to display the Upload a Software Image page, as shown in Figure 6-2.

Figure 6-2: Upload a Software Image Page

Step 2 Enter the image file name in the Specify Image File Name field (the complete path name of the image file), or click Browse to select the file.

Step 3 Click Upload to ICS 7750 to add the image to the table.

Uploading a Cisco IOS Image

To upload images from your PC to the system software library, do the following:

Step 1 From the Software Upgrade page, click the Deliver to a system card link for the desired image. The Deliver to System Card page shown in Figure 6-3 appears.

Figure 6-3: Deliver a Software Image Page

Step 2 Select the target card from the Select a Target System Card drop-down list.

Step 3 Click Deliver. The image is uploaded to the system software library. This process takes about 30 seconds for a 4-MB file.

When the upload is complete, the Software Upgrade main page appears with an entry for the uploaded image in the Image Management table.

Viewing Image Details

To view the detailed information for a software image, click the Details link. The Detail page appears, as shown in Figure 6-4.

Figure 6-4: Details Page

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