Mailing List Archive: VDX upgrade

VDX upgrade

Nov 19, 2013, 3:48 PM

Post #1 of 6 (3341 views)

Hi all--

Having a little trouble upgrading a VDX 6720. I'm following the directions, upzipping everything, putting it on the ftp server, but I keep getting the following error:
"The server is inaccessible or firmware path is invalid. Please make sure the server name or IP address, the user/password and the firmware path are valid."

My connection to the ftp site is solid. User/pass is fine. Obviously the path is the wrong thing, but I'm directing the firmware download to the correct directory (in this case, nos3.0.1a).

Has anyone run into this problem? I'm a little new to the VDX platform, and it certainly doesn't have training wheels. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks much.

--Dave

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Re: VDX upgrade [ In reply to ]

mkassawara at gmail

Nov 19, 2013, 4:08 PM

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What's the full command you're trying?

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Dave Peters - Terabit Systems <
Dave@terabitsystems.com> wrote:

> Hi all--
>
> Having a little trouble upgrading a VDX 6720. I'm following the
> directions, upzipping everything, putting it on the ftp server, but I keep
> getting the following error:
> "The server is inaccessible or firmware path is invalid. Please make sure
> the server name or IP address, the user/password and the firmware path are
> valid."
>
> My connection to the ftp site is solid. User/pass is fine. Obviously the
> path is the wrong thing, but I'm directing the firmware download to the
> correct directory (in this case, nos3.0.1a).
>
> Has anyone run into this problem? I'm a little new to the VDX platform,
> and it certainly doesn't have training wheels. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks much.
>
> --Dave
>
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Re: VDX upgrade [ In reply to ]

mkallen at gmail

Nov 19, 2013, 6:16 PM

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Dave, try the full path. As an example: C:\ NOS \nos2.0.1b\nos2.0.1b

I have generally done this from the USB, that works well but is also fairly
specific when it comes to specifying the path.

Mike

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Dave Peters - Terabit Systems <
Dave@terabitsystems.com> wrote:

> Hi all--
>
> Having a little trouble upgrading a VDX 6720. I'm following the
> directions, upzipping everything, putting it on the ftp server, but I keep
> getting the following error:
> "The server is inaccessible or firmware path is invalid. Please make sure
> the server name or IP address, the user/password and the firmware path are
> valid."
>
> My connection to the ftp site is solid. User/pass is fine. Obviously the
> path is the wrong thing, but I'm directing the firmware download to the
> correct directory (in this case, nos3.0.1a).
>
> Has anyone run into this problem? I'm a little new to the VDX platform,
> and it certainly doesn't have training wheels. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks much.
>
> --Dave
>
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Re: VDX upgrade [ In reply to ]

wsmith at brocade

Nov 20, 2013, 6:54 PM

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Dave,
This could be a permissions issue; have you checked to make sure the
directory is readable to your FTP username? What FTP server are you using?
For Linux Iâ€™ve just used the FTP daemon, but for windows Iâ€™ve had good
luck with Filezillaâ€™s windows server.

Wilbur

On 11/19/13, 4:48 PM, "Dave Peters - Terabit Systems"
<Dave@terabitsystems.com> wrote:

>Hi all--
>
>Having a little trouble upgrading a VDX 6720. I'm following the
>directions, upzipping everything, putting it on the ftp server, but I
>keep getting the following error:
> "The server is inaccessible or firmware path is invalid. Please make
>sure the server name or IP address, the user/password and the firmware
>path are valid."
>
>My connection to the ftp site is solid. User/pass is fine. Obviously the
>path is the wrong thing, but I'm directing the firmware download to the
>correct directory (in this case, nos3.0.1a).
>
>Has anyone run into this problem? I'm a little new to the VDX platform,
>and it certainly doesn't have training wheels. Any help would be
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks much.
>
>--Dave
>
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Re: VDX upgrade [ In reply to ]

mkassawara at gmail

Nov 20, 2013, 7:02 PM

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I'm not a huge fan of FTP due to various implementation and firewall
issues... you might give the SFTP/SCP option a shot.

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Wilbur Smith <wsmith@brocade.com> wrote:

> Dave,
> This could be a permissions issue; have you checked to make sure the
> directory is readable to your FTP username? What FTP server are you using?
> For Linux I’ve just used the FTP daemon, but for windows I’ve had good
> luck with Filezilla’s windows server.
>
> Wilbur
>
> On 11/19/13, 4:48 PM, "Dave Peters - Terabit Systems"
> <Dave@terabitsystems.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi all--
> >
> >Having a little trouble upgrading a VDX 6720. I'm following the
> >directions, upzipping everything, putting it on the ftp server, but I
> >keep getting the following error:
> > "The server is inaccessible or firmware path is invalid. Please make
> >sure the server name or IP address, the user/password and the firmware
> >path are valid."
> >
> >My connection to the ftp site is solid. User/pass is fine. Obviously the
> >path is the wrong thing, but I'm directing the firmware download to the
> >correct directory (in this case, nos3.0.1a).
> >
> >Has anyone run into this problem? I'm a little new to the VDX platform,
> >and it certainly doesn't have training wheels. Any help would be
> >appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks much.
> >
> >--Dave
> >
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Re: VDX upgrade [ In reply to ]

hidden at xmission

Nov 20, 2013, 7:21 PM

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Does your nos3.0.1a directory have another nested nos3.0.1a directory in
it? (there shouldn't be). It's been a while since I ran a VDX upgrade,
but it looked like this:

sw1# firmware download ftp host 10.1.1.10 user admin password password123
file nos2.0.1a directory vdx

The directory structure of the FTP server looked like this:
c:\ftp\vdx\nos2.0.1a\(bunch of VDX files and directories)

The admin/password123 login was dumped to c:\ftp. The upgrade command
goes into the vdx directory and then pulls the upgrade from the nos2.0.1a
subdirectory.

Hopefully that helps.

-JV

On 11/20/13, 7:54 PM, "Wilbur Smith" <wsmith@brocade.com> wrote:

>Dave,
>This could be a permissions issue; have you checked to make sure the
>directory is readable to your FTP username? What FTP server are you using?
>For Linux I¹ve just used the FTP daemon, but for windows I¹ve had good
>luck with Filezilla¹s windows server.
>
>Wilbur
>
>On 11/19/13, 4:48 PM, "Dave Peters - Terabit Systems"
><Dave@terabitsystems.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi all--
>>
>>Having a little trouble upgrading a VDX 6720. I'm following the
>>directions, upzipping everything, putting it on the ftp server, but I
>>keep getting the following error:
>> "The server is inaccessible or firmware path is invalid. Please make
>>sure the server name or IP address, the user/password and the firmware
>>path are valid."
>>
>>My connection to the ftp site is solid. User/pass is fine. Obviously the
>>path is the wrong thing, but I'm directing the firmware download to the
>>correct directory (in this case, nos3.0.1a).
>>
>>Has anyone run into this problem? I'm a little new to the VDX platform,
>>and it certainly doesn't have training wheels. Any help would be
>>appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks much.
>>
>>--Dave
>>
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>
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