Alcatel Unleashed

Hi,
May i please ask someone to please bear the pain and show me how to transfer Timos into a 7750/7210 via console?.
Possibly by using FTP program like Filezilla.
Thanks

You need to have network connectivity between the 7750/7210 and the host you're running your file transfer program on. So you can't literally only have a console connection. A network port will need to be connected.

I would suggest if you are copying from a Windows host that you use WinSCP as it supports SCP as well as SFTP and FTP. Before you start, check you have connectivity by confirming you can ping the 7210/7750 from the host running WinSCP. If you have SSH already set up, there's nothing to configure. You just choose the IP address or hostname of the 7210/7750 you pinged and the username and password you use to SSH in and select SFTP as the protocol. It will fallback to SCP if SFTP is not supported. If SSH already works from the host, SCP will.

You get the SR OS software as a ZIP file. If you unzip it on the machine you are running WinSCP on, you will see a cflash folder. Inside that is a folder with a name corresponding to the software version, for example TiMOS-SR-13.0.R9. Transfer that folder and its contents to the 7750/7210. It contains all the .tim files and the new boot.ldr. You will then need to copy the new boot.ldr to the root of the file system on the 7750/7210 after backing up the old one. You can do this locally on the node from the folder you loaded or by copying it with WinSCP from your workstation. You then set the primary-image in the BOF to be the folder you just uploaded containing the .tim files, save the BOF then do "admin redundancy synchronize boot-env" to copy all the files referenced in the new BOF to the standby CPM.

I would not use FTP as it is a security risk as passwords are sent unencrypted, needs extra firewall rules/cpm-filter/ip management filter entries and has no benefit over using SCP apart from being theoretically quicker. If you really want to enable FTP, you do so with "configure system security ftp-server".

mivens,
You are super and have never been disappointed with any of your replies.
Thanks for your invaluable helps.....

Thanks for taking the pain to explain this....