I wouldn't go that far unless you've got a use for an additional chassis. Simply put the compact flash from the new 3bxl into the primary's 2nd slot, copy the image & return it to the new card if you're nervous. Either way, insterting a new sup should not interfere with the primary.
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Lee Starnes wrote: > 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/ > --------------------------------- Brian Wallingford Director, Network Operations MegaNet Communications P: 508-646-0030 F: 508-646-0010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
