DELL N3000 User Manual

Managing Images and Files

This section contains the following examples:

• Upgrading the Firmware
• Managing Configuration Scripts

This example for a N4032 shows how to download a firmware image to the 

switch and activate it. The TFTP server in this example is PumpKIN, an open 

source TFTP server running on a Windows system. 

• TFTP server IP address: 10.27.65.103
• File  path:  \image
• File name: dell_0308.stk

Use the following steps to prepare the download, and then download and 

upgrade the switch image.

1 Check the connectivity between the switch and the TFTP server.

console#ping 10.27.65.103

Pinging 10.27.65.103 with 0 bytes of data:

Reply From 10.27.65.103: icmp_seq = 0. time <10 msec.

Reply From 10.27.65.103: icmp_seq = 1. time <10 msec.

Reply From 10.27.65.103: icmp_seq = 2. time <10 msec.

Reply From 10.27.65.103: icmp_seq = 3. time <10 msec.

----10.27.65.103 PING statistics----

4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet 

loss

round-trip (msec) min/avg/max = <10/<10/<10

2 Copy the image file to the appropriate directory on the TFTP server. In 

this example, the TFTP root directory is C:\My 
Documents\Other\Downloads\TFTP

., so the file path is images.