RE: (ASCEND) Handy Hints For Upgrading Maxen

["Brooks, Fergus (London)" <brookfer@MLE.CO.UK>]

Hi all,

We just upgraded one of our Max boxes from version 4.6A to 6.1.7 - without a
hitch except for a problem with SecureID (which was our fault anyway)....

The excellent engineers from BTN (London) were aware of the upgrade issues
and therefore did the upgrade in 4 stages. Doing this there was no config
loss and the boxes came up fine, with Radius ISDN users immediately
re-connecting...... This was the procedure they followed:

	Save Current Config		5 Mins
Upgrade to Version 5.0A	30 Mins
	Reboot MAX			5 Mins
	Upgrade To Version 5.0Ap42	30 Mins
	Reboot MAX			5 Mins
	Upgrade to Version 6.0.8	30 Mins		
	Reboot MAX			5 Mins
	Upgrade to Version 6.1.7(18)	30 Mins

Anyway I thought you all might appreciate this as a story of something that
worked *right* for a change.........


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stephen Mulrine [SMTP:skm@foremost.co.uk]
> Sent:	Tuesday, December 15, 1998 4:16 PM
> To:	ascend-users@bungi.com
> Subject:	Re: (ASCEND) Handy Hints For Upgrading Maxen
> 
> Troy Settle wrote:
> >Steps I take for upgrades:
> >1. retrieve the needed load to my tftp server (ftik.m40 in my case)
> >2. tsave
> >3. fsave 
> >4. tload
> >5. fsave again
> >6. nv
> >7. after reboot, repeat steps 4-6 once to get the extended load
> >8. check configuration
> >9. go have a smoke
> >IIRC, the step from 5.x to 6.x.x does require reconfiguring, but it may
> be
> >there I just didn't take the time to save the config in the first place.
> 
> When I went from 5.x to 6.0.3 it completely lost my configuration too.
> However, from 6.0.3 to 7.0.0 (feik.m40) I got away with the following:
> 
> 1. tsave
> 2. tloadcode
> 3. fsave
> 4. nvramclear
> 
> And not forgetting
> 
> 5. implement workarounds for all the broken stuff
> 
> Stephen
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