Once the copy is finish make sure your primary flash is showing the latest version the command is “ #show flash” again – Once you see the firmware file on the switch – let’s start firmware upgrade process. Do a “ #show flash” to see the firmware file visible on the switch.ģ. Insert the USB stick to the switch the switch will automatically mount the USB. Before the upgrade make sure which version is you are currently running the command is “ #show flash” – screenshot –Ģ.

Copy this file onto a USB flash drive (do not put this in a sub directory). The firmware file is a “.swi” extension file. The latest firmware as of today (June 2014) is K. Download the latest firmware from HP My Networking site – During new firmware upgrade the system automatically take a backup of primary image and copy this to the secondary – so no worry if you messed up with firmware upgrade you can tell the system to boot from secondary (which is you current good one in fact).Īlso firmware upgrade process will keep a backup of your “configurations” in the switch – however it is recommended you should take copy of the same before start upgrade process.ġ. HP 6600 series always keep two boot images on the flash – (i)primary boot image and (ii)secondary boot image by default switch boot from the primary. Secondary Image : 3257994 10/09/17 N.11.Firmware upgrade on a HP ProCurve 6600 series (24g-4xg or 48g-4xg or 24xg) can be done in several ways, here I will cover upgrading firmware using USB stick.

ProCurve Switch 2810-24G# copy flash flash primary ProCurve Switch 2810-24G# sh flash ProCurve Switch 2810-24G# sh verĮxecute the copy command as follows to copy the flash from secondary to primary. If everything is working fine with secondary image Upgrade the primary imageĪnd set switch with boot primary image.

ProCurve Switch 2810-24G# boot system flash secondaryĭevice will be rebooted, do you want to continue ?Y

Once the FLASH is updated to the latest version, issue the below command to Reboot the system to the secondary image. You could also check the flash image versions by running the command, “Show flash”ĭownload the latest firmware version and put the file in the TFTP root folder. Upgrading the HP Procurve firmware is straight forward when using the CLI and TFTP server. Before going to upgrade check what version of the software is currently running, issue the “show version” command.

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