To schedule an NE software upgrade

Purpose

Perform this procedure to schedule a device software upgrade on one or more managed NEs according to a software upgrade policy and an NFM-P schedule. See Chapter 5, NFM-P-based schedules for information about NFM-P schedules.

Note: A new NFM-P scheduled task is shut down by default and must be turned up before it can be executed, with one exception: Scheduled software upgrade tasks associated with all NE types are automatically enabled by default.

You must perform To import device software files to the NFM-P to import the required device software image before you perform this procedure.

Steps
 
1 

Choose Administration→NE Maintenance→Software Upgrade from the NFM-P main menu. The Software Upgrade form opens.

2 

Select the required software upgrade policy.

Note: The NFM-P performs the upgrade according to the configuration in the software upgrade policy that you select.

3 

Click on the Software Images tab.

4 

Select a software image and click Schedule Upgrades. The Select Sites form opens.

5 

Select one or more NEs and click OK. The Select Schedule form opens.

Note: You cannot use a schedule in which the Ongoing parameter is enabled.

6 

Select a schedule and click OK.

7 

Click Yes. The NFM-P schedules the upgrade.

8 

Close the form.

End of steps