Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 15.2(3)E

This procedure is for copying the combined tar file to the switch. You copy the file to the switch from a TFTP server and extract 
the files. You can download an image file and replace or keep the current image.

Make sure that the compact flash card is inserted into the switch before downloading the software.

To download software, follow these steps:

Use 

 to identify the file that you want to download.

Download the software image file. If you have a SmartNet support contract, go to this URL, and log in 
to download the appropriate files:

To download the image for an IE 3010 switch, click Switches > Industrial Ethernet Switches > Cisco IE 3010 Series 
Switches, and then click on the Cisco IOS software for your specific switch model. 

Copy the image to the appropriate TFTP directory on the workstation, and make sure that the TFTP 
server is properly configured.

For more information, see Appendix B of the software configuration guide for this release.

Log into the switch through the console port or a Telnet session.

(Optional) Check that you have IP connectivity to the TFTP server by entering this privileged EXEC 
command:

Switch# ping tftp-server-address

For more information about assigning an IP address and default gateway to the switch, see the software configuration guide for 
this release. 

Download the image file from the TFTP server to the switch. If you are installing the same version of 
software that is currently on the switch, overwrite the current image by entering this privileged EXEC 
command:

Switch# archive download-sw /overwrite /reload tftp:[[//location]/directory]/image-name.tar

The /overwrite option overwrites the software image in flash memory with the downloaded one. 

The /reload option reloads the system after downloading the image unless the configuration has been changed and not saved.

For //location, specify the IP address of the TFTP server.

For /directory/image-name.tar, specify the directory (optional) and the image to download. Directory and image names are 
case sensitive.

This example shows how to download an image from a TFTP server at 198.30.20.19 and to overwrite the image on the switch:

Switch# archive download-sw /overwrite tftp://198.30.20.19/image-name.tar

You can also download the image file from the TFTP server to the switch and keep the current image by replacing the 
/overwrite option with the /leave-old-sw option.