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3750 IOS Upgrade in a Stack

hi all I wanted to deploy OSPF on my 3750 switch but am getting 'Unknown routing protocol' I tried to do an IOS u/g sometime back with no joy but thought I would reinvestigate it

Last time I tried it, it would appear only on the switches took the new IOS and the other 2 came up with Version mismatches I have copied the IOS to flash1:, flash2: and flash3: so it is there for all 3 switches in the stack

So useful info before hand

sh ver Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) C3750 Software (C3750-I9-M), Version 12.1(19)EA1d, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Mon 05-Apr-04 22:40 by antonino Image text-base: 0x00003000, data-base: 0x007CBC3C

ROM: Bootstrap program is C3750 boot loader BOOTLDR: C3750 Boot Loader (C3750-HBOOT-M) Version 12.1(14r)EA1a, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

AFF-HO-CORE-SWITCH uptime is 12 weeks, 1 day, 19 hours, 37 minutes System returned to ROM by power-on System restarted at 18:59:26 WST Wed Dec 19 2007 System image file is "flash:/c3750-i9-mz.121-19.EA1d/c3750-i9-mz.

121-19.EA1d.bin"

cisco WS-C3750G-24T (PowerPC405) processor (revision F0) with

118776K/ 12288K bytes of memory. Processor board ID CAT0853N09R Last reset from power-on 6 Virtual Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) 72 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) The password-recovery mechanism is enabled.

512K bytes of flash-simulated non-volatile configuration memory. Base ethernet MAC Address : 00:13:19:14:27:80 Motherboard assembly number : 73-8046-07 Power supply part number : 341-0048-01 Motherboard serial number : CAT08520EZB Power supply serial number : DTH08491LSQ Model revision number : F0 Motherboard revision number : A0 Model number : WS-C3750G-24T-S System serial number : CAT0853N09R Hardware Board Revision Number : 0x05

Switch Ports Model SW Version SW Image

------ ----- ----- ---------- ----------

  • 1 24 WS-C3750G-24T 12.1(19)EA1d C3750-I9-M 2 24 WS-C3750G-24T 12.1(19)EA1d C3750-I9-M 3 24 WS-C3750G-24T 12.1(19)EA1d C3750-I9-M

Switch 02

--------- Switch Uptime : 12 weeks, 1 day, 19 hours, 40 minutes Base ethernet MAC Address : 00:12:DA:8F:88:00 Motherboard assembly number : 73-8046-07 Power supply part number : 341-0048-01 Motherboard serial number : CAT08510L35 Power supply serial number : DTH08491L76 Model revision number : F0 Motherboard revision number : A0 Model number : WS-C3750G-24T-S System serial number : CAT0852X1LZ

Switch 03

--------- Switch Uptime : 12 weeks, 1 day, 19 hours, 38 minutes Base ethernet MAC Address : 00:0D:29:75:27:00 Motherboard assembly number : 73-8046-05 Power supply part number : 341-0048-01 Motherboard serial number : CAT072504UT Power supply serial number : LIT071800BN Model revision number : A0 Motherboard revision number : A0 Model number : WS-C3750G-24T-S System serial number : CAT0725R17Q

Configuration register is 0xF

sh switch Current Switch# Role Mac Address Priority State

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*1 Master 0013.1914.2780 15 Ready 2 Slave 0012.da8f.8800 14 Ready 3 Slave 000d.2975.2700 1 Ready

sh boot BOOT path-list : flash:/c3750-ipbasek9-mz.122-35.SE5.bin Config file : flash:/config.text Private Config file : flash:/private-config.text Enable Break : no Manual Boot : no HELPER path-list : Auto upgrade : yes

The documentation on the Cisco website about this says use the following command

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boot system switch all or boot system switch 3

But it appears that my switch does not support these above listed commands

My options are (config)#boot system ? WORD pathlist of boot file(s) ... file1;file2;...

I can do a boot system /flash1:c3750-ipbasek9-mz.122-35.SE5.bin

But how do I make the other 2 switches boot the new IOS Do I just use boot auto-copy-sw to force the IOS to the other 2 slave switches when a Version Mismatch has been determined?

Any help or suggestions would be most welcome

Scott

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Scooty
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Hi Scott,

Sorting out 3750 stack IOS version mismatches and boot sequences is a nightmare that took me a while to feel confident with, but once I understood it I found it works well.

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If you issue the boot system switch all *** command and specifiy the statement "flash:..." then all switches BOOT statements get set to boot from their OWN flash image. If you specify "flash1:..." then all switches will boot from that particular stack members copy of IOS. Also remember that if each switch boots from its own copy, then each member is ot liant on any other members and redundacy is automatic. The option to specify flash1:... etc may be handy for an interim setup, but it could be a source of a real problem in a production environment.

Lastly, note that the Auto upgrade option should only be set on the MASTER switch, and not on a Slave switch. Let the master control what the stack members get (IE use only 1 boss).

I have gone through the hassle or sorting out version mismatches on

3750 stacks and found that "it depends". The catch being that I am not exactly sure what it depends on.

Now... whenever I come across a stack with a version mismatch I physically BREAK the stack and manually update the switch that needs changing, check each stack member has the correct boot statement, then re-connect the stack again. I have found this by far the safest and surest method of getting it right, as when I tried using Auto-upgrade once, it resulted in a DOWNGRADE of the stack to a lower level.

Once a stack has all members at the SAME level, then provided the "boot system" statement applies to all stack members, then upgrading the stack is usually straight forward and easy (IMHO).

Good luck..................pk.

Reply to
Peter

it has been my experience that you don't always need to break the stack as long as you have a switch that claims to be master. I just ran in to this with a 3750-24 that I replaced a second unit on.

We utilize the 'archive' command to upgrade our IOS versions when we have

3750 stacks because it does a lot of the dirty work for you such as copy the IOS to each unit in the stack and set the boot flags appropriately, etc. However, the use of the 'archive' command can only be used if you are using a .tar file and not a bin file (as explained here
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However, if you use the .tar files, that can really bone you when auto-upgrade tries to kick in. Auto-upgrade appears to do nothing more than execute a "copy flash1: flashX: (where X is the slot that doesn't have the right IOS) and auto-upgrade does NOT seem to be aware of the directory that 'archive' stuffs the bin file into.

So, that being said, what I ended up having to do was to replace the 2nd unit, have it boot up, have auto-upgrade fail, then manually copy the IOS bin file over to the slot that has the incorrect IOS, then reload that slot with the IOS that the master is running. After the reboot do 'sho switch' to see that IOS is happy. Then, if your SOPs dictate to use the archive command to get the tar files on the switches, then you can do a normal IOS upgrade as detailed in the document above.

We use the .tar images because some of our people like to see a graphical representation of the switches with CNA, so the web files are all packaged up neatly in the tar files.

IMHO Cisco needs to make the auto-upgrade feature more compatible with how the archive commands leave the files on the flash filesystems.

Hope I didn't ramble too much, good luck!

AJ Schroeder

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Schroeder, AJ

A version change will not do the job I don't think.

As far as I can see ipbase does not do OSPF.

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For OSPF Advanced IP Services is required.

"C3750-I9-M" I m not exactly sure what that is but "I9" could well be base with crypto for ssh management.

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Bod43

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