Ruckus ICX - Firmware Upgrade Guide

Purpose:

The purpose of this guide is to demonstrate how to upgrade the firmware for a Ruckus ICX switch which has just been unboxed and upgrading to 80.90.

Please note before you upgrade to anything higher than 80.91 you must first install 80.90, if your device is greater than 80.91 you can ignore point you can ignore step 3 and 9

Pre-Requisites:

• Please ensure you have the firmware downloaded from Ruckus

• Please ensure you have installed a TFTP server running on your laptop or desktop which has access to the switch, for windows TFTPD32 is recommended and can be found > TFTPD32 Download

Step 1 - Set the IP address of the TFTP Server

The device acting as the TFTP server should have its IP address set to the following:

 Step 2 - Set the IP address on the switch

• enable

• configure terminal         

• ip address 10.0.0.20/24

• end

Step 3 - Install the bootrom

The bootrom is the underlying code which allows the components to communicate with one another.

Please change "BootRom.bin" to the filename in the firmware pack downloaded from Ruckus

• copy tftp flash 10.0.0.1 BootRom.bin bootrom

• Example copy tftp flash 10.0.0.1 mnz10111.bin bootrom

Step 4 - Determining the active firmware bank

• show version

This will display the following information, the highlighted section displays which software bank is currently active and in use.

In this instance the active firmware bank in use is "Primary" therefore the non-active firmware bank is "Secondary"

Step 5 - Installing the firmware

Depending on which feature set you require install the Switching or Routing image to the non active software bank determined in the previous step.

Please change "image.bin" to the filename in the firmware pack downloaded from Ruckus

• copy tftp flash 10.0.0.1 image.bin primary/secondary

 Step 6 - Verify that the firmware has been installed to the switch

• show flash

This will display the firmware installed on the switch, in the example below we have the Routing firmware installed on the Primary and Secondary software banks.

If you do not see the firmware name listed then you must re-attempt the bootrom and firmware installation to ensure it has taken effect.

Step 7 - Tell the switch which software bank to boot from upon reboot

• configure terminal

• boot system flash primary / secondary

• end

• write memory

Step 8 - Reboot the switch

• reload

• y

Step 9 - Installing the UFI firmware

Once the switch has rebooted you will be presented the image below and will be asked to log into the switch and change the password.

 The default username = super

The default password = sp-admin

 When prompted to change the password set it to changeme

• enable

• configure terminal         

• ip address 10.0.0.20/24

• end

• copy tftp flash 10.0.0.1 imageUFI.bin primary/secondary

Step 10 - Reboot the switch

• reload

• y

Enjoy the newly flashed switch and firmware.