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About this guide

This guide describes how to build and deploy SONiC images and how to upgrade, recover, and troubleshoot SONiC on supported Nokia hardware platforms, such as the 7215 IXS-A1, 7250 IXR-10e, and 7220 IXR-H routers. It also covers initial management connectivity and SONiC CLI usage.

Supported platforms ship with Nokia community SONiC preinstalled. Customers compile a SONiC deployment image from the open-source SONiC project. The standard deployment workflow is to upgrade from the factory-installed Nokia community SONiC image to the customer-compiled SONiC deployment image. See the Nokia community SONiC Software Release Notes for the list of supported hardware platforms. See the installation guide for each platform for hardware-specific installation steps.

Note: This guide describes Release 202605. See the Nokia community SONiC Software Release Notes for the features supported or not supported on each device in Release 202605.

For additional build, configuration, and CLI references, see Resources for Nokia community SONiC users.

Conventions

This section describes the general conventions used in this guide.

Precautionary and information messages

The following information symbols are used in the documentation.

DANGER: Danger warns that the described activity or situation may result in serious personal injury or death. An electric shock hazard could exist. Before you begin work on this equipment, be aware of hazards involving electrical circuitry, be familiar with networking environments, and implement accident prevention procedures.
WARNING: Warning indicates that the described activity or situation may, or will, cause equipment damage, serious performance problems, or loss of data.
Caution: Caution indicates that the described activity or situation may reduce your component or system performance.
Note: Note provides additional operational information.
Tip: Tip provides suggestions for use or best practices.

Options or substeps in procedures and sequential workflows

Options in a procedure or a sequential workflow are indicated by a bulleted list. In the following example, at step 1, the user must perform the described action. At step 2, the user must perform one of the listed options to complete the step.

Options in a procedure

  1. User must perform this step.
  2. This step offers three options. User must perform one option to complete this step.
    • This is one option.
    • This is another option.
    • This is yet another option.

Substeps in a procedure or a sequential workflow are indicated by letters. In the following example, at step 1, the user must perform the described action. At step 2, the user must perform two substeps (a. and b.) to complete the step.

Substeps in a procedure

  1. User must perform this step.
  2. User must perform all substeps to complete this action.
    1. This is one substep.
    2. This is another substep.