Dell N1500 Firmware Upgrading Instruction

Dell N1500 Firmware Upgrading Instruction

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Upgrading Dell EMC Networking
N1500 Series Switches to
6.5.2.9 Firmware
Date: September 2018
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  • Page 1 Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the DELL logo and PowerConnect are trademarks of Dell Inc; Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks and Celeron is a trademark of Intel Corporation; Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Firmware Downgrade Overview ..................1   Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches ..............2   How to Access Serial Console on Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series switches .........3   Upgrade Example of Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches ..........3   Upgrade Stack of Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches ...........9  ...
  • Page 3: Introduction

    6.1.x.x/6.2.x.x/6.3.x.x releases. Dell Networking N1524P and N1548P switches with HW revision of 3 can be stacked with N1500 series switches with HW revision of 2 or older. If N1500 Series switch with HW Rev.3 is to be deployed as a member within a stack of N1500 Series switches with HW revision of 2 or older, the entire stack will be required to run 6.3.2.4 or later (6.5.2.9).
  • Page 4: Upgrade Dell Emc Networking N1500 Series Switches

    3. Download the 6.5.2.9 firmware image (N1500v6.5.2.9.stk) to the switch or stack master. NOTE: Activate the image to use as the boot (active) image after the switch resets. Images on the N1500 series switches are named active and backup. 4. Activate 6.5.2.9 firmware. 5. Reload the switch.
  • Page 5: How To Access Serial Console On Dell Emc Networking N1500 Series Switches

    By default, no network information is configured. The DHCP client is enabled on VLAN 1 by default on the N1500 switches. DNS is enabled, but no DNS servers are configured. If you assign an IP address to VLAN 1, you can connect to the switch management interface by using any of the front- panel switch ports.
  • Page 6 Activating image backup .. 5. HiveAgent application has been upgraded to a newer version 1.1.16.0 in 6.5.2.9 release for N1500, N2000 and N3000 switches. To ensure that new HiveAgent application is properly installed in the switch, below commands must be run before upgrading to 6.5.2.9 from a 6.3.x.x release.
  • Page 7 Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches 6. Reload the switch. console#reload Management switch has unsaved changes. Are you sure you want to continue? (y/n) y Configuration Not Saved! Are you sure you want to reload the stack? (y/n) y...
  • Page 8 Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches Programming controller register ddr_init2: MemC initialization complete Validate Shmoo parameters stored in flash ..OK Press Ctrl-C to run Shmoo ..skipped Restoring Shmoo parameters from flash ..done Running simple memory test ..OK...
  • Page 9 Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches UBIFS: media format: w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0) UBIFS: default compressor: LZO UBIFS: reserved for root: 5182151 bytes (5060 KiB) Loading file '/image2' to addr 0xb0000000 with size 19912132 (0x012fd5c4)... Done ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at b0000074 ...
  • Page 10 Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches <185> Aug 21 02:06:43 0.0.0.0-1 SIM[Cnfgr_Thread ]: sim_util.c(3786) 9 %% Switch was reset due to operator intervention. (Unit 1 - Waiting to select management unit)> Applying Global configuration, please wait ... Applying Interface configuration, please wait ...
  • Page 11: Upgrade Stack Of Dell Emc Networking N1500 Series Switches

    Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches Upgrade Stack of Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches Note on “copy” command from steps 2,3 and 4 in switch upgrade above:  “copy” command will take longer to complete with a stack of switches. This is due to the master switch copying the software to the member switches.
  • Page 12 Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches console#show version Machine Description....Dell EMC Networking Switch System Model ID....N1524 Machine Type...... Dell EMC Networking N1524 Serial Number..... 14C24M0030LF Manufacturer...... 0xbc00 Burned In MAC Address..... 001E.C9E5.BA2F System Object ID....1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10895.3063 SOC Version....... BCM56150_A0 HW Version......
  • Page 13: Switch Recovery Procedure

    Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches Switch Recovery Procedure NOTE: To perform switch recovery disconnect the stacking cables connected to each switch. Connect each switch individually via the serial port. Stack members can’t be recovered unless the switch is connected directly to serial port.
  • Page 14 Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches Boot Main Menu ============== 1 - Start Operational Code 2 - Select Baud Rate 3 - Retrieve Logs 4 - Load New Operational Code 5 - Display Operational Code Details 9 - Reboot...
  • Page 15 Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches The system is going down NOW! Sent SIGTERM to all processes Sent SIGKILL to all processes Requesting system reboot U-Boot 2012.10-00244-g9552470cd8 (Feb 20 2018 - 15:54:29) I2C: ready BENCH SCREENING TEST1 ========================================= IPROC_XGPLL_CTRL_3: 0x05400000...
  • Page 16 Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches Unlocking L2 Cache ...Done l2cc_invalidate - Done, i = 981, invway = 0 Net: Registering eth Broadcom BCM IPROC Ethernet driver 0.1 Using GMAC0 (0x18022000) et0: ethHw_chipAttach: Chip ID: 0xdb56; phyaddr: 0x1 ethHw_miiphy_write (addr&f):phyaddr (addr&1f00):bank...
  • Page 17: End Of Document

    Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N1500 Series Switches ## Loading init Ramdisk from multi component Legacy Image at b0000074 ... Uncompressing Multi-File Image ... OK boot_prep_linux commandline: console=ttyS0,9600n8 maxcpus=1 mem=1008M root=/dev/ram mtdparts=spi1.0:1024k(u- boot);nand_iproc.0:1024k(nboot),512k(nenv),256k(vpd),256k(shmoo),112640k(fs),16384k(diags) ubi.mtd=fs ethaddr=00:1e:c9:e5:bd:10 quiet Starting kernel ... starting pid 1087, tty '': '/etc/init.d/rcS' starting pid 1217, tty '/dev/ttyS0': '/etc/rc.d/rc.fastpath'...

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