Dell Networking N2128PX-ON Series Upgrading Firmware

Dell Networking N2128PX-ON Series Upgrading Firmware

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Dell™ Networking N2128PX-ON
Upgrading Dell™ Networking
N2128PX-ON Series Switches
to 6.3.6.9 Firmware
Date: Nov 2017
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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

    Global Support ......................1   Firmware Upgrade Overview ...................1   Firmware Upgrade Procedure for Dell Networking N2128PX-ON Series Switches ......2   How to Access Serial Console on N2128PX-ON Series switches ...........3   Upgrading Example for Dell Networking N2128PX-ON Series Switches ..........3  ...
  • Page 3: Introduction

    Dell Networking N2128PX-ON switches with HW revision of 4 and later require firmware version 6.3.6.9 or later and cannot be downgraded to earlier 6.3.x.x releases. Dell Networking N2128PX-ON switches with HW revision of 4 can be stacked with N2128PX-ON series switches with HW revision of 3 or older. If N2128PX-ON Series unit with HW Rev.4 is to be deployed as a member within a stack of N2128PX-ON Series switches with HW revision of 3 or older, the entire stack will be required to run 6.3.6.9 or later.
  • Page 4: Firmware Upgrade Procedure For Dell Networking N2128Px-On Series Switches

    Firmware Upgrade Procedure Dell™ Networking N2100 Series Switches Firmware Upgrade Procedure for Dell Networking N2128PX-ON Series Switches The procedure given below to download firmware to an individual switch or a stack of switches. Please do not interrupt switch operation during the downloading process as this may result in corruption of flash memory.
  • Page 5: How To Access Serial Console On N2128Px-On Series Switches

    8 data bits, no parity bit, 1 stop bit, and no flow control). Figure.1 N2128PX-ON Switch Console Port Location Upgrading Example for Dell Networking N2128PX-ON Series Switches This example shows an annotated upgrade example for a N2128PX-ON switch. This example presumes the administrator is logged in to the switch or stack via Serial console.
  • Page 6 Firmware Upgrade Procedure Dell™ Networking N2100 Series Switches console#show version Machine Description....Dell Networking Switch System Model ID....N2128PX-ON Machine Type...... Dell Networking N2128PX-ON Serial Number..... 15114M0002LF Manufacturer...... 0xbc00 Burned In MAC Address..... 001E.C9E5.BD0F System Object ID....1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10895.3066 SOC Version....... BCM56150_A0 HW Version......
  • Page 7 Firmware Upgrade Procedure Dell™ Networking N2100 Series Switches DRAM: 1008 MiB WARNING: Caches not enabled Bad bus: 2 NAND: (ONFI), MT29F32G08ABAAAWP , blocks per lun: 1000 lun count: 1 NAND: 1024 KiB blocks, 8 KiB pages, 16B OOB, 8-bit NAND:...
  • Page 8 Firmware Upgrade Procedure Dell™ Networking N2100 Series Switches ## Flattened Device Tree from multi component Image at 70000074 Booting using the fdt at 0x70439d58 Image is not a fdt Continuing to boot without FDT Uncompressing Multi-File Image ... OK boot_prep_linux commandline: console=ttyS0,115200n8 maxcpus=2 mem=1008m envaddr=0x1C400000 root=/dev/ram mtdparts=nand_iproc.0:4m(uboot),4m(uboot-...
  • Page 9: Stacking Notes

    Firmware Upgrade Procedure Dell™ Networking N2100 Series Switches unit active backup current-active next-active ---- ----------- ----------- -------------- -------------- 6.3.6.9 6.3.6.4 6.3.6.9 6.3.6.9 7. The switch or stack is now ready for normal operation. Verify the configuration and make any changes needed prior to connecting the switch to the operational network.
  • Page 10: Switch Recovery Procedure

    Firmware Upgrade Procedure Dell™ Networking N2100 Series Switches After the stack of switches has finished rebooting, log in and verify that the firmware has been updated to the version using the show version command. A single switch will typically reboot in around two minutes. A 6.3.6.9...
  • Page 11 Firmware Upgrade Procedure Dell™ Networking N2100 Series Switches Dell Networking Boot Options ============================ Select a menu option within 3 seconds or the Operational Code will start automatically... 1 - Start Operational Code 2 - Display Boot Menu Select (1, 2) #...
  • Page 12 Firmware Upgrade Procedure Dell™ Networking N2100 Series Switches starting pid 1700, tty '': '/etc/rc.d/rc.rebootRebooting system! The system is going down NOW! Sent SIGTERM to all processes Sent SIGKILL to all processes Requesting system reboot U-Boot SPL 2012.10-g8642dcd (Jan 19 2017 - 13:14:29)
  • Page 13 Firmware Upgrade Procedure Dell™ Networking N2100 Series Switches UBI: max. allowed volumes: UBI: wear-leveling threshold: 4096 UBI: number of internal volumes: 1 UBI: number of user volumes: UBI: available PEBs: UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 3970 UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 40...
  • Page 14: End Of Document

    Firmware Upgrade Procedure Dell™ Networking N2100 Series Switches Extracting Operational Code from .stk file...done. Loading Operational Code...done. Decompressing Operational Code...done. Uncompressing apps.lzma Uncompressing python.lzma Installing Python <185> Nov 27 18:53:09 0.0.0.0-0 General[fp_main_task]: unitmgr.c(6606) 1 %% Reboot 1 (0x1) DMA pool size: 16777216...

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