Reference Guide

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.

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 FTOS image other than the one currently running:

• To specify an FTOS image on the internal flash, enter

flash:// file-path/filename.

• To specify an FTOS image on an FTP server, enter ftp://

user:password@hostip/filepath.

• To specify an FTOS image on the external flash on the

primary RPM, 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, refer to the

relevant

FTOS Command Line Reference Guide

The following is a list of the FTOS version history for this command.

Version 9.0(0.0) Added support for IPv6 for the file-url parameter.

Version 8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.

Version 8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000. Added support for the SSD on the Z9000

only.

Version 8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.

Version 7.7.1.0 Added support for TFTP and SCP.

Version 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 FTOS after executing this command. To copy FTOS from the management unit to one or

more stack members, use the upgrade system stack-unit (S-Series stack

member)

command.

Example

FTOS# upgrade system ?

ftp: Copy from remote file system (ftp://

userid:password@hostip/filepath)

scp: Copy from remote file system (scp://