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User Guide for Resource Manager Essentials 4.1
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Chapter 12 Managing Software Images Using Software Management
Software Distribution
• Run Cisco.com Upgrade Analysis or Repository Upgrade Analysis to determine the prerequisites
for a new software deployment.
See Upgrade Analysis for further details.
• For IPX/IGX/BPX/MGX devices, you should update upgrade information before running the
analysis. Updating upgrade information retrieves the latest upgrade path and firmware compatibility
requirements from Cisco.com.
See Updating Upgrade Information for further details.
In addition, you need to answer such questions as:
• Have you supplied the minimum requirements such as the minimum device configuration
requirements for each device? See
Meeting Minimum Device Requirements for further details.
• Is the device running from Flash (RFF)?
• Does the device have multiple Flash partitions?
• Does the Supervisor board require a new software image?
• Have you satisfied the additional requirements for the devices?
See Configuring Devices for Upgrades for further details.
Maintaining Your Software Image Repository
• Use the Adding Images to the Repository > Network option to import running images from all
Software Management-supported devices in your network into the repository.
See Adding Images to the Software Repository From the Network for further details.
• Since you can download new images to a device without using Software Management, eventually
the software image repository might not reflect the images that are running on your network devices.
To keep the repository current:
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Review all software images in the repository.
See Software Repository for further details.
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Schedule the Synchronization report to run periodically.
See Scheduling a Synchronization Report for further details.
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Retrieve additional images from Cisco.com, another device, or a file system on your server.
See Adding Images to the Software Repository for further details.
• Download Cisco images from Cisco.com during a scheduled distribution job.
Testing the New Images
To confirm the stability of your network after upgrades, test the new software images before you perform
a full-scale deployment.
You cannot roll back software upgrades for supervisor modules on Catalyst 5000 series switches.
Therefore, test the new images for these devices thoroughly before deploying on your network.