Installation and upgrade overview

Purpose

This chapter provides information and procedures for software installation and upgrades on the 7701 CPAA Hardware Revision 2.

For information about installation and upgrades for vCPAA, see Chapter 4, vCPAA installation and upgrade.

Important information

The first installation of a software image on the 7701 CPAA must be performed using a CLI.

If you are upgrading from a 7701 CPAA release prior to 8.0 R5, you must update the BOOTROM.SYS file on the 7701 CPAA.

WARNING

Equipment Damage

Do not update the BOOTROM.SYS file unless it is required.

If you update the BOOTROM.SYS file, use a reliable method to transfer the file. Confirm that the transfer and update are successful before you reboot the device.

Upgrade methods

You can upgrade the software on 7701 CPAA Rev. 2 hardware by the following methods:

Using a CLI; see To install or upgrade the 7701 CPAA Hardware Revision 2 OS software using a CLI.
Using the NFM-P software upgrade functionality; see To upgrade the 7701 CPAA Hardware Revision 2 OS software using the NFM-P client GUI. This method allows you to upgrade the image on multiple CPAAs at one time. However, a CLI must be used to modify the NVRAM.DAT and bof.cfg files for each device, and to verify the upgrade and reboot the device.

For information about the NFM-P NE upgrade functionality; see the “NE software upgrades” chapter in the NSP NFM-P User Guide

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