How to upgrade Brocade 4/12 firmware?

[JorisK]

Hi!

I want to upgrade our Brocade 4/12 SAN switches firmware. I was expecting to find a single binary file with the firmware but i see this:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=nl&prodNameId=3185341&prodTypeId=3709945&prodSeriesId=3185340&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=54#290

Firmware bundles of 300MB each.... I downloaded the proper version and when unzipping it contains a lot of content but no update instructions.

How do i upgrade our firmware?

Regards,
Joris Kemperman

[Torsten.]

Just put all the files on an FTP server and point to this during the update. The firmware will match and get the needed files automagically.

[JorisK]

Thanks Torsten, but i need to specify a filename in the management software, and i have no idea which one...

[Torsten.]

Filename?

What is your current version???





Example:

Exampleof an interactive firmware download

switch:admin> firmwareDownload
Server Name or IP Address: 10.1.2.3
User Name: userfoo
File Name: /userfoo/firmware/v6.4.0
Network Protocol(1-auto-select, 2-FTP, 3-SCP) [1]: 2
Password:
Checking system settings for firmwareDownload...
Trying address-->AF_INET IP: 10.1.2.3, flags : 2
System settings check passed.
You can run firmwaredownloadstatus to get the status
of this command

[JorisK]

We run 5.0.5.

When logging on to the Web management portal, i goto admin > Firmware and see a dialogbox where i can specify an FTP IP address, username, password and filename.

[Torsten.]

Looks very, very old ... what version did you download?

[JorisK]

Well 5.3.0d, this version shipped with the switches we bought a few months ago. I want to sync the firmware of my old switches to the new switches.

There's a version 6 but they are also huge in download (600MB) and i still need to specify a "filename". I called HP support but the guy on the phone couldn't help me out aswell...

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

As you can see in my example you must be enter the path only:

File Name: /userfoo/firmware/v6.4.0

where v6.4.0 is a directory.

This changed many years ago. Before there must be specified a plist file (cannot remember the version when this changed), but now only the directory is needed.

You may consider to update step by step to the current 6.2.xy version.

[JorisK]

Thanks Torsten! I'll take a look at it tomorrow night!

[Torsten.]

This should always work:

- perform a switchshow
...
swd77:admin> switchshow
switchName: switch001
switchType: 32.0
...

Note the type (32).

Now specify the path:

/firmware/v6.4.0/SWBD32/release.plist

or maybe it was

/firmware/v6.4.0/release.plist

file - I don't remember at the moment.

But I think it was

/firmware/v6.4.0/release.plist


As said, since several years the path (/firmware/v6.4.0/) is enough.