NAM software upgrade

[ivanka_busta]

Hi,

I have a NAM installed in a Cisco 6506-E.

NAM application image version: 3.6(1b)
Maintenance image version: 2.1(3)
NAM Daughter Card Micro code version: 1.34.1.28 (NAM)
BIOS Version: 4.0-Rel 6.0.9
PID: WS-SVC-NAM-2
Memory size: 1024MB
Disk size: 40GB
Installed patches:

No patches are installed on this system.

Reading previous discussions about updating the NAM image version, I found that It's not possible to upgrade to version 5 or 6 (fresh install required) and that those versions require 2 GB of memory. Is that right? So I was thinking about upgrading to version 4. However, I have a few doubts:

 - Does it worth? Are there interesting changes from version 3.6 to version 4.x?

 -  Which of the files available in the cisco website for version 4.x should I download? The ones which look like the complete software are for     cat6k/7600 NAM blades so I'm not sure if they are right for a Cisco 6500 and the other files are patches.

Thanks in advance.

[AFROJ AHMAD]

Hi ,

 - Does it worth? Are there interesting changes from version 3.6 to version 4.x? Mostly BUG fixes are there with moving to 4.x

you need to download the application Image  for e.g

Cisco NAM 4.0(1a) Software for Cat6k/7600 NAM blades 
c6svc-nam.4-0-1a.bin.gz

https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=277991104&softwareid=282700108&release=4.2&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest

Details Steps for the Upgarde ::

+Before you begin the upgrade process, we recommend that you perform a complete backup of your current NAM configuration. Doing so will record your current configuration which will be helpful if you have difficulties duplicating your previous configuration after the software upgrade.

To back up your current configuration, from the NAM command line, enter a config upload command like the following:

config upload ftp://server/path

The config upload command sends a copy of the NAM running configuration to the destination you specify. The information is stored in a back-up configuration file with an ending suffix of .config as in NAM_host-c6svc-nam-3.6.1b.config. The destination address should be a valid server name and directory path.


NAM 4.0 has a new architecture that will cause you to lose some of the configuration you have currently set in your NAM. When you upgrade from NAM 3.6 or NAM 3.5 to NAM 4.0, due to the new architecture, the settings for alarms, reports, and capture files will not be upgraded to NAM 4.0. We highly recommend that you record these configurations in a final database backup so you maintain an archive of your final configuration before your software upgrade using the config upload command.

Please check that in more details as “Before you begin” section in the link below :

 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/network_analysis_module_software/4.0/release/notes/nam40note.html#wp112325


+Now we need to make sure that your maintenance image and BIOS version are supported for this upgrade.

Maintenance image and BIOS requirements for NAM 4.0:

 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/network_analysis_module_software/4.0/release/notes/nam40note.html#wp112325


Upgrade steps:

+Maintenance image upgrade:

You can download the maintenance image (c6svc-nam-maint.2-1-5.bin.gz) from this link:

 http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/release.html?mdfid=277991104&flowid=4995&softwareid=282700108&release=5.1&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest
 
the steps to install the image are listed in the link below :

 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/network_analysis_module_software/4.0/switch/configuration/guide/advcfg.html#wp1036241


After the above step is completed for both devices , you can proceed to download NAM 4.0 (NAM-1/NAM-2 Application Image Release 4.0 for Catalyst 6500 switches and Cisco 7600 Routers
c6svc-nam.4-0-1.bin.gz ) from this location:

 http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/release.html?mdfid=277991104&flowid=4995&softwareid=282700108&release=5.1&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest


These are the steps required to upgrade the application image version on all modules:

 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/network_analysis_module_software/4.0/switch/configuration/guide/advcfg.html#wp1036152

Thanks-

Afroz

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