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Active/Standby failover pair firmware upgrade

rutekp123
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Hi,

   There is offical document how to upgrade software on Cisco ASA in Active/Standby. But no document about firmware upgrade. Anyone try to upgrade in active/standby but firmware not software ? This command is ok ?

failover exec mate upgrade rommon disk0:/asa5500-firmware-1118.spa

But what about confirm to reload ?

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balaji.bandi
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I did some time back, if this is active / on standby 

you can upgrade standby first, once reload check shows the module

then upgrade the Primary unit.

Note: last time I did use a console so I would prefer this.

 

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rutekp123
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I want to do it remotly. But this command: failover exec mate upgrade rommon disk0:/asa5500-firmware-1118.spa

will ask about reload.

On other hand i dont know if I use command upgrade rommon disk0:/asa5500-firmware-1118.spa on standby unit directly this will do only on standby only or on both units ?

The following commands are replicated to the standby ASA:

  • All configuration commands except for mode, firewall , and failover lan unit

  • copy running-config startup-config

  • delete

  • mkdir

  • rename

  • rmdir

  • write memory

The following commands are not replicated to the standby ASA:

  • All forms of the copy command except for copy running-config startup-config

  • All forms of the write command except for write memory

  • debug

  • failover lan unit

  • firewall

  • show

  • terminal pager and pager

 

this form CLI Book 1: Cisco ASA Series General Operations CLI Configuration Guide, 9.6 - Failover for High Availability [Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Firewalls] - Cisco

NOTE:- please be sure before apply any command. 

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