Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Prepare for firmware download to XPath OS switches

Fabric Manager does not support firmware repository management or firmware download for

switches running XPath OS. For these switches, you can extract the firmware files (.zip, .tar, .gz)

manually into Fabric Manager’s built-in FTP server or external FTP server, and use the FTP server

configuration to perform firmware download through Web Tools—AP Edition or the command line

interface.

If you use Fabric Manager’s built-in FTP server for this purpose, you must create a new user

account in the built-in FTP server using the following procedure.

Configuring a user account for external purposes in the built-in FTP

server

1. Choose Edit > Preferences.

2. Expand Server specific and select File Transfer.

The File Transfer dialog box displays, as shown in Figure 138 on page 207.

3. Configure your FTP server.

a. Click Use built-in FTP Server.

b. Click Use my user name and password.

i. Type your user name in the User Name field.

ii. Type your password in the Password field and confirm it in the Confirm Password field.

4. Click Test to ensure that you can access the FTP server specified. Fabric Manager reports

success or failure.

5. Click OK to save the settings.

Firmware access when changing the FTP server

Fabric Manager does not copy firmware files when you change from the built-in FTP server to an

external FTP server, or change from one external FTP server to another located on the Fabric

Manager server.

Moving the firmware files to the new FTP server

1. Manually copy the contents of the firmware repository on the current FTP server to the new

server. Be sure to copy the folder structure exactly as it is on the current FTP server.

2. Stop the current FTP server.

3. Configure the new FTP server to use port 21.

4. Start the new FTP server.