I've been burned by soft reload actually being quite hard, with no upgrade involved. I assumed it was just one more quirk to love about these devices.
-Lee Lee Badman | Network Architect | CWNE #200 Information Technology Services 206 Machinery Hall 120 Smith Drive Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.3003 f 315.443.4325 e [email protected] w its.syr.edu SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu ________________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <[email protected]> on behalf of Joachim Tingvold <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 3:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco 8540/5520 HA-upgrade - soft reload? Hi, Has anyone pursued why soft-reload after an image upgrade actually hard-reloads the HA-pair? Normally it doesn't, but it seems to be doing that when a new version is involved. I can't find any documentation regarding the matter -- actually, I barely find any documentation regarding soft-reload in general (I know that it only reloads the AireOS code, rather than the whole server, but, yeah, some details would be nice). When you soft-reload without a new version, it only takes about 90-100 seconds, whilst a full, hard restart takes 220-230 seconds. Would be nice to actually do upgrades in the "sub 2 minutes" area, rather than "almost 5 minutes". -- Joachim ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
