Cisco Systems 1000 Series Manual De Usuario

A collection of software subpackages packaged together creates a single consolidated package. A 
consolidated package allows users to upgrade all individual subpackages on the router with a single 
software image download. Consolidated packages can be downloaded from Cisco.com; users who want 
to run the router using individual subpackages that are part of the consolidated package must first 
download the image from Cisco.com and extract the individual subpackages from the image, which can 
be done by entering request platform command-line interface commands. 

Beginning in Cisco IOS XE Release 2.4, support for a supplemental, optional subpackage of type called 
sipspawma is introduced to support the Cisco WebEx Node for ASR 1000 Series shared port adapter 
(SPA). Optional subpackages are installed similarly to individual subpackages; however, optional 
subpackages are not bundled as part of a consolidated package like prior support for the individual 
subpackages, and optional subpackages must be downloaded independently.

See the 

 and 

 of this book for additional information on extracting 

individual subpackages from a consolidated package, supplemental optional subpackages, and other 
information on managing software.

A consolidated package is a single image composed of individual software subpackage files. A single 
consolidated package file is a bootable file, and the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router can be run using the 
consolidated package.

Consolidated packages only contain the required individual subpackage files. These packages do not 
contain supplemental, optional subpackages, such as the “sipspawma” package for the Cisco WebEx 
Node for ASR 1000 Series.

Each consolidated package also contains a provisioning file. A provisioning file is used for booting in 
cases where the individual subpackages are extracted from the consolidated package, or optional 
subpackages are used to run the router. For additional information on the advantages and disadvantages 
of running a complete consolidated package, see the 

. For additional information on provisioning files, see the 

For information about the consolidated packages available in a specific version of Cisco IOS XE, see the 
release notes for that version of Cisco IOS XE. The 

 contains the 

release notes for each version of Cisco IOS XE.

The important information about consolidated packages include:

For each version of a consolidated package, the RPBase, RPControl, ESPBase, SIPSPA, and 
SIPBase subpackages are identical among consolidated packages.

For each version of consolidated package, the RPIOS subpackage is always different among 
consolidated packages.

A consolidated package file is a bootable file. If the router is configured to run using a the complete 
consolidated package, boot the router using the consolidated package file. If the router is configured 
to run using individual subpackages, boot the router using the provisioning file. For additional 
information on the advantages and disadvantages of running a complete consolidated package, see 
the 

. For additional