Supermicro SSE-G3748 Series - Firmware Upgrading Procedures

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Chapter 3: Installation and Setup
4. This brings up the switch’s command line interface for user login.
5. Enter the username ADMIN and the unique password to login to the switch.
6. To view the switch congurations use the show command and to congure the switch
type cong term to get access to the conguration commands. For help, type ? or
help.
For further information on the use of the command line interface, see the separate CLI User’s
Guide manual at https://www.supermicro.com.tw/zh_tw/products/accessories/Networking/
SSE-G3748-SMIS.php.
Firmware
The rmware for SSE-G3748/D/R/DR-SMIS Ethernet switches resides on a chip on the PCB.
The switch has internal ash memory in two areas to hold two rmware images. The ash area
used for the normal rmware image is referred to as the normal area. The other ash area,
referred to as the fallback area, is used to store the rmware image for fallback purposes in
case of a failure to boot from the normal area.
Firmware Upgrading Procedures
The procedures for rmware upgrading and using a fallback rmware image are listed below.
Upgrading Firmware on the switch using TFTP or the network
To upgrade the switch’s rmware, use the procedure below.
1. Designate a server or the network as an TFTP server.
2. Copy the latest rmware to the TFTP root directory on the TFTP server machine.
3. Make sure the upgraded TFTP server and switch both have network reachability.
4. Login to the switch CLI, either through Telnet or a serial console port.
5. Type the command below to upgrade the rmware in the normal area:
rmware upgrade tftp://<ip-address>/<lename>
ash:normal
Here, <ip-address> is the IP address of the TFTP server and <lename> is the name of
the rmware image le.
6. On successful download, the CLI displays the following string:
Firmware download completed successfully.
After a successful download, reboot the switch to use this latest rmware.