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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
• Prepared for this upgrade. You should have met all of the prerequisites for loading the software on
the device. You should have verified whether the necessary software images are present in the image
repository.
• Considered the effect of the upgrade on your network and your network users.
• Supplied the information required by Software Management for each device.
To distribute the images by device in Advance mode:
Step 1 Select Resource Manager Essentials > Software Mgmt > Software Distribution.
The Distribution Method dialog box appears.
Step 2 Select By device [Advance], then click Go.
The Expert Distribution dialog box appears.
Step 3 Click Browse.
The Server Side File Browser dialog box appears.
Step 4 Select the file and click OK.
The input file that contains the details must be available at this location:
On Solaris:
/var/adm/CSCOpx/files/rme/swim/advdistinput
On Windows:
NMSROOT/files/rme/swim/advdistinput
Where NMSROOT is the CiscoWorks installed directory.
The selected file must contain the information in CSV format and all the fields are mandatory:
device-display-name,image-in-repository,storagedestination,moduleidentifier
• device-display-name—Name of the device as entered in Device and Credential Repository.
• image-in-repository—Image name as in the software image repository.
• storagedestination—Image storage destination
• moduleidentifier—Module identifier number. This is applicable only for Catalyst devices. For other
devices, you must enter 0.
You can identify the device module number using Inventory Detailed Device Report (Resource
Manager Essentials > Reports > Report Generator). In the Detailed Device Report, the Slot
Number column in the Module Information table provides you the Module Identifier Number.
For example, for a Cisco Router:
Rtr1750,c1700-sy56i-mz.121-24.bin,flash:1,0
For a Cisco Catalyst device:
cat5500-10.100.38.17,cat5000-supg.6-4-10.bin,bootflash:,1
Step 5 Click Verify.
The Expert Distribution window is updated with the following device details: