I had figured as much, but wanted to make sure. I have backups of everything, so if something does go wrong, it can get corrected. We may just pick up a spare chassis to do this upgrade. Seems that they are not too costly.
Thanks for the input. -Lee 2012/4/4 Piotr Wojciechowski <[email protected]> > On 4/4/12 22:14 , Lee Starnes wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a question about the 6509 and the SUP720-3BXL standby sup. If a > > chassis only has 1 SUP installed and you install a second one, will that > > disrupt the currently installed and working SUP? I ask this because we > have > > our standby SUPs and I would like to install them, but I know they don't > > have the same version of IOS running. I don't want to blow away the > config > > or cause the chassis to go down when installing these. Does anyone have > any > > experience with this? > > > > Hi, > > Normally when you insert second sup as a standby (same type, hardware > configuration including PFC and memory) it should synchronize itself to > active one including IOS and configuration (except configuration > registers) and reload as standby. But I normally recommend my customers > to manually load proper IOS to supervisor on spare chassis and insert > prepared one into production chassis. > > Regards, > > -- > Piotr Wojciechowski (CCIE #25543) | "The trouble with being a god is > http://ccieplayground.wordpress.com | that you've got no one to pray to" > JID: [email protected] | -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
