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Dell Command Line Reference Guide for the S4048–ON System 9.14.2.4

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upgrade

Upgrade the bootflash image or system image of the management unit.

Syntax

upgrade boot {all | bootflash—image | bootselector-image} stack-unit {stack-unit-number | all} {booted | flash: | ftp: | nfsmount | scp: | tftp: | usbflash:} file-url

Parameters
boot
Enter the keyword boot to change the boot image.
system
Enter the keyword system to change the system image.
ftp:
After entering the keyword ftp:, you can either follow it with the location of the source file in this form: //userid:password@hostip/filepath or press Enter to launch a prompt sequence.
scp:
After entering the keyword scp:, you can either follow it with the location of the source file in this form: //userid:password@hostip/filepath or press Enter to launch a prompt sequence.
slot0:
After entering the keyword slot0:, you can either follow it with the location of the source file in this form: //hostlocation/filepath or press Enter to launch a prompt sequence.
tftp:
After entering the keyword tftp:, you can either follow it with the location of the source file in this form: //hostlocation/filepath or press Enter to launch a prompt sequence.
flash:
After entering the keyword flash:, you can either follow it with the location of the source file in this form: flash//filepath or press Enter to launch a prompt sequence.
A: | B:
Enter the partition to upgrade from the flash.
stack-unit:
Enter the keywords stack-unit: to synch the image to the stack-unit.
file-url
Enter the following location keywords and information to upgrade using an Dell EMC Networking OS image other than the one currently running:
  • To specify an Dell EMC Networking OS image on the internal flash, enter flash:// file-path/filename.
  • To specify an Dell EMC Networking OS image on an FTP server, enter ftp://user:password@hostip/filepath.
  • To specify an Dell EMC Networking OS image on the external flash, enter slot0://file-path/filename.
  • To copy a file on a TFTP server, enter tftp://hostip/filepath/filename.

where hostip is either an IPv4 dotted decimal address or an IPv6 URI [x:x:x:x::x] format address.

Defaults
none
Command Modes
EXEC Privilege
Command History

This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell EMC Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.

Version
Description
9.8(0.0P5)
Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2)
Introduced on the S3048-ON.
9.0(0.0)
Added support for IPv6 for the file-url parameter.
8.3.19.0
Introduced on the S4820T.
8.3.11.1
Introduced on the Z9000. Added support for the SSD on the Z9000 only.
8.3.7.0
Introduced on the S4810.
7.7.1.0
Added support for TFTP and SCP.
7.6.1.0
Introduced on the S-Series.
Usage Information

RFC 3986 specifies that IPv6 host addresses in a uniform resource identifier (URI) must be enclosed in square brackets, [X:X:X:X::X]. For maximum flexibility this command accepts IPv6 host addresses with or without the square brackets.

Reload Dell EMC Networking OS after executing this command. To copy Dell EMC Networking OS from the management unit to one or more stack members, use the upgrade system stack-unit (S-Series stack member) command.

Example
DellEMC# upgrade system ?
ftp:    Copy from remote file system (ftp://userid:password@hostip/filepath)
scp:    Copy from remote file system (scp://userid:password@hostip/filepath)
tftp:   Copy from remote file system (tftp://hostip/filepath)
DellEMC# upgrade system ftp://username:password@10.11.1.1/FTOS-SB-7.7.1.0.bin
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Erasing Sseries ImageUpgrade Table of Contents, please wait
.!........................................................
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....................................!
12946259 bytes successfully copied
DellEMC# reload
DellEMC#

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