6.3.1 Software Upload

Use this command to update the firmware controlling the switch.

Command Syntax:

firmware upgrade <url_file>
Table 6-3. Command Description

Argument

Description

Parameter

<url_file>

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource. Syntax: <protocol>://[<username>[:<password>]@]<host>[:<port>][/<path>]/<file_name>. If the following special characters: space, ‘!’, ‘"’, ‘#’, ‘$’, ‘%’, ‘&’, ‘'’, ‘(‘, ‘)’, ‘*’, ‘+’, ‘,’, ‘/’, ‘:’, ‘;’, ‘<’, ‘=’, ‘>’, ‘?’, ‘@’, ‘[‘, ‘\’, ‘]’, ‘^’, ‘` ` `’, ‘{‘, ‘|’, ‘}’, ‘~’ need to be contained in the input URL string, they should be percent-encoded. A valid file name is a text string drawn from the alphabet (A–Za–z), digits (0–9), dot (`.`), hyphen (`-`), and underscore (`_`). The maximum length is 63 characters, and the hyphen must not be the first character. File names that contain only periods (`.`) are not allowed.

Default

N.A

Mode

EXEC

Usage

Use this command to upload the firmware from TFTP Server to unit local file.

Example

Example 1:

Upload firmware file test.mfi from TFTP Server.

# firmware upgrade tftp://192.168.0.40/test.mfi