Nortel Networks 4050 User Manual

Chapter 14 Maintaining and managing the system 735

Nortel Secure Network Access Switch 4050 User Guide

 

The Software Management menu includes the following options:

followed by:

cur

Displays the status of the software versions on the 
particular device to which are connected. The status 
options are:

•

permanent

 — the software version that is 

currently operational

•

old

 — the software version that preceded the 

currently operational software version

•

unpacked

 — the software upgrade package has 

been downloaded but not yet activated

If you activate a software version indicated as either 

unpacked

 or 

old

, the status of that version is 

propagated to 

permanent

 . The software status 

change occurs after the Nortel SNAS 4050 device 
performs a reboot.

activate <version>

Activates a downloaded software upgrade package that 
the 

 command indicates as 

unpacked

. If serious 

problems occur when the new software version runs, 
you can switch back to the previous version by 
activating the software version that the 

 command 

indicates as 

old

. 

The Nortel SNAS 4050 reboots when you confirm the 

 command.

Note: When you activate a software upgrade on a 
Nortel SNAS 4050 device, all the Nortel SNAS 4050 
devices in the cluster reboot. All active sessions are 
lost.