For God's sake do not even think about using CWSI RME (Resource Manager
Essentials)to upgrade IOSs.
It looks good (GUI), but it is damn slow, sensitive, and fails for all kinds
of reasons.
A few months ago we decided to upgrade IOSs on about 15 of our 2924 switches.
With telnetting I could have done the upgrade in 150 minutes max.
First, It took us a week to collect all the information that RME needed and
take care of error messages and snmp communities and enable passwords. We had
allocated 4 hours to do this job after we thought we are ready. To cut the
long stroy short, after four hours, out of 15 only 3 were done with the help
of CWSI RME, the other 12 we had to upgrade through telnetting. Easy,fast and
reliable. The irony is, to upgrade by telnetting I used an old 486 laptop.
CWSI needs (minimum!) 256 meg RAM, 4G HDrive and PII200 or above!
A. Strobel
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> Tammy,
>
> Have you considered using CiscoWorks2000 RME software distribution
> feature? I haven't actually used it myself, but if it works like it looks
> it should, it might be just what you are looking for. Perhaps someone with
> experience using this could give a better and more in depth response.
>
> As I understand it, you load software images into RME and it evaluates
> the routers to see if they support it them and then uploads when specified.
>
> Of course, scripts are a lot less expensive....And it may take more
> time getting CiscoWorks2000 installed and working exactly the way you want
> than actually upgrading all of the routers, but hey.
>
> If you do come up with scripts for this, I'd be interested in looking
> at them.
>
> - Matthew
>
>
>
>
> "Tammy Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@groupstudy.com
> 11/17/2000 04:00 PM
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> Subject: Scripts for IOS upgrades
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>
>
> All,
> We support over 500 components and different models of Cisco hardware. We
> need
> to upgrade IOS levels in a fast way.
> I would imagine using some type of script with checks and balances would do
> the
> trick.
>
> Has any one used such a creature...?
> Where could I find a creature like this as fast, as fast can be...?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
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