Cisco WAAS Central Manager Upgrade

[Sandeep Singh]

• Introduction
• Upgrading the Primary Central Manager
• Upgrading the Standby Central Manager
• Related Information

Introduction

It is recommended that all devices in your WAAS network should be running the same version of the WAAS software. If some of your WAAS devices are running different software versions, the WAAS Central Manager should be the lowest version. Upgrading to version 5.0, 5.1, or 5.2 is supported from certain older versions only. If you have a WAAS device that is running a version from which upgrading directly to version 5.0, 5.1, or 5.2 is not supported, first upgrade the device to the next highest supported intermediate version and then upgrade to the desired 5.0, 5.1, or 5.2 version.

Upgrading the Primary Central Manager

Use this procedure to upgrade the WAAS software on the primary CM.

1) Telnet to the primary CM IP address.

 telnet primary_cm_ip_address

2) Copy the new software image to the primary CM.

 copy ftp install ftpserver / waas-image.bin

3) Reload the primary CM.

 reload

4) Verify that the new image loaded correctly.

 show version

5) Ping the standby CM and branch WAE devices to confirm connectivity.

6) Confirm that the CMS services are running.

 show cms info

Upgrading the Standby Central Manager

Use this procedure to upgrade the WAAS software on the standby CM.

1) Telnet to the standby CM IP address.

 telnet standby_cm_ip_address

2) Copy the new software image to the standby CM.

 copy ftp install ftpserver / waas-image.bin

3) Reload the standby CM.

 reload
4) Verify that the new image loaded correctly.

 show version

5) Ping the primary CM and branch WAE devices to confirm connectivity.

6) Wait at least 5 minutes and then confirm the database last synchronization time to ensure that the database has been synchronized.

 show cms info

7) From the primary CM, confirm that the status indicator for the standby CM is online and green.

Related Information

Common WAAS/WCCP issues on interactions with Security Devices
Cisco Wide Area Application Services Upgrade Guide
Cisco Wide Area Application Services Configuration Guide

[shirangp3]

Official Documentation State Something different in regard to the order of upgrade:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/app_ntwk_services/waas/waas/v551/configuration/guide/cnfg/maint.html#26348

We recommend that all devices in your WAAS network should be running the same version of the WAAS software. If some of your WAAS devices are running different software versions, the WAAS Central Manager should be the highest version. For details on version interoperability limitations, see the Release Note for Cisco Wide Area Application Services.

WAAS version 5.4 is not supported running in a mixed version WAAS network where any WAAS device is running a software version lower than 4.3.1. If you have any WAAS devices running versions earlier than 4.3.1, you must first upgrade them to version 4.3.1 (or a later version) before you install version 5.2 on the Central Manager. Do not upgrade any device to a version later than the existing Central Manager version. After all devices are running version 4.3.1 or a later version, you can begin the upgrade to version 5.4.1 on the WAAS Central Manager. Directly upgrading a device from version 4.0, 4.1, or 4.2, to 5.4.1 is not supported.