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CISCO NCS 540 Router IOS Upgrade Guidelines
Time: 2024-12-13
Moduletek Limited Laboratory performs IOS system upgrade on CISCO NCS 540 router and observes that the system file is a tar compressed file, which is different from the regular bin file. Below is the method to upgrade the system software version of NCS 540 router based on a specific case.
The model of the upgraded device is CISCO NCS 540-ACC-SYS, the existing IOS software version of the device is 7.7.12, and the target version of the upgrade is 7.11.2, and the system file name is ''NCS540-iosxr-7.11.2.tar'', which contains an The zip file contains a base image file with iso extension and several functional optional packages with rpm extension.
Note: IOS system file download directory: https://software.cisco.com/download/home;
1. Check the upgrade description file of the target version to determine whether the existing version supports direct upgrade to the target version and to determine the upgrade program.
2. Check the device memory, the system file storage directory requires at least 2G free space; you can execute ''install remove inactive '' to remove inactive packages.
3. Enable the automatic FPD upgrade function, which is usually enabled by default.
4. Use USB to copy the system files to the router's harddisk: directory, execute the command ''copy disk2:NCS540-iosxr-7.11.2.tar harddisk:NCS540-iosxr-7.11.2.tar''.
Execute ''dir ?'' You can see the name of the USB recognized in the device, in this case the USB is recognized as disk2:, execute ''dir disk2:'' to see the files contained in the USB.
Note: This upgrade is only uploading system files with the help of USB, not installing and upgrading directly with USB.
5. Enter the harddisk: folder, execute the command ''tar -xvf NCS540-iosxr-7.11.2.tar'' to decompress the system files into the same folder as harddisk:, exit after decompression is complete.
6. Execute the command ''install source harddisk: ncs540-mini-x-7.11.2.iso noprompt '' to install the IOS image file, the process will automatically reboot the device to complete the installation.
7. After the switch starts successfully, check the system software version of the switch is already the target version, execute the command ''install commit'' to save the installation, so the upgrade is completed.
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