Upgrading or Downgrading the Cisco APIC From Releases 4.x or 5.0 Up the Firmware Details page for that particular firmware image. Wait for the Cisco APIC firmware images to download.Ĭlick the Images tab again, if necessary, to view theĪfter the download reaches 100%, double-click on the row in the table for the firmware image that you downloaded to bring Need to provide the generated private key for each download Ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -C you can generate them on another machine. Public Key ( ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) on one of the After the authentication check is performed, the temporary public key on APIC is deleted. You must ensure that the remote server has the corresponding public key as one of the Passphrase that is used for generating the SSH Privateīased on the provided SSH Private Key, APIC internally creates a temporary SSH public key just for this transaction to establishĪ connection with the remote server. If you selected SSH Key, enter the following If you selected Use Password, in the Password field, enter your password for secure copy. In the Authentication Type field, select the type of authentication for the download. In the Username field, enter your username for secure copy. The format for both HTTP and SCP source is:ġ0.1.2.3:/path/to/the/image/aci-apic-dk9.5.0.1a.iso. (SCP) source that you want to use to download the software In the previous step, enter the http source that you want toīutton in the previous step, enter the Secure Copy Protocol In the URL field, enter the URL from where the image will be downloaded. In the Protocol field, click either the HTTP or the Secure copy radio button. The following fields appear if you are creating a new download. You can also delete an existing download task by entering the existing download name in the Download Name field, then clicking on the trash icon next to the field. In the Download Name field, either select an existing download using the options provided in the scrolldown menu, or enter a name for the Cisco APIC image file to create a new download (for example, apic_image). If you want to import the firmware image from a remote location, click the Remote radio button in the Firmware Image Location field, then perform the following actions: Location, click the Local radio button in theįolder on your local system with the firmware image that you want to If you want to import the firmware image from a local The Add Firmware to APIC popup window appears.ĭetermine if you want to import the firmware image from a local or a remote location. On the storage capacity of each controller. Also provides informationĬontroller Storage tile - Provides information Virtual Nodes tile - Provides information on theįirmware versions used by the virtual nodes.Ĭontroller tile - Provides information on theįirmware version used by this controller. The Summary window appears, which provides the following information:įirmware versions used by the physical nodes. On the menu bar, choose Admin > Firmware. The text for dialogs,įields, buttons, and other controls in the Cisco APIC GUI specify “upgrade” even though you are downgrading the software. If you are downgrading the software on the Cisco APICs, the process is identical to the process for upgrading the software,Įxcept that the target release that you choose will be earlier than the currently installed release. This procedure is to download firmware images of APICs and ACI switches into APIC’s firmware repository from an external file
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