FPD best practice / Upgrade problem

[michel.renfer]

Hi all!

1)

We're actually planning / preparing the upgrade from our 4.3.x ASR9000 to 5.3.x. While performing an test upgrade, we noticed that the fpd upgrade for the rsp440 takes up to 30mins. In some documents, upgrading fpd's to the latest level is best practice but not necessary. What is the offical recommendation on this?

2)

While upgrading a brand new 9006 with 5.2.0 (factory installed) to 5.3.2 we had problems that the system went into an instable state. The software upgrade itself was successfull and we rebooted the system multiple times without any issues. After performing fpd upgrade and reload of the system, the active RSP was not coming properly online (not recognizing LCs, Standby RSP, Configuration). The other RSP was in rommon. We had no change to reboot the system (responded that it could not reboot), only power cycle was possible to recover the system. Anyone saw such behaviour?

brgds,
michel

[smilstea]

1. It won't prevent the router from functioning, but we do make changes to the FPDs for good reason so I would highly recommend upgrading the FPDs. In newer releases, probably the next time you upgrade, you will see that the FPD upgrade time is/has been reduced.

2. Can you share the console / session logs from this?

Sam

[michel.renfer]

Thats just the fpd part, afterwards we don't have any further logs

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ios(admin)# upgrade hw-module fpd all location all

Starting the upgrade/download of following FPDs:

=========== ==== ======= ======= =========== =========

                                   Current    Upg/Dng

Location    Type Subtype Upg/Dng   Version    Version

=========== ==== ======= ======= =========== =========

0/RSP0/CPU0 lc   cbc     upg        16.115      16.116 

0/RSP0/CPU0 lc   fpga    upg         0.10        0.11  

0/RSP0/CPU0 lc   fpga2   upg         1.06        1.09  

0/RSP0/CPU0 lc   rommon  upg         0.71        0.75  

0/FT0/SP    ft   cbc     upg         5.00        5.03  

0/FT1/SP    ft   cbc     upg         5.00        5.03  

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Starting the upgrade/download of following FPDs:

=========== ==== ======= ======= =========== =========

                                   Current    Upg/Dng

Location    Type Subtype Upg/Dng   Version    Version

=========== ==== ======= ======= =========== =========

0/RSP1/CPU0 lc   cbc     upg        16.115      16.116 

0/RSP1/CPU0 lc   fpga2   upg         1.06        1.09  

0/RSP1/CPU0 lc   fpga    upg         0.10        0.11  

0/RSP1/CPU0 lc   rommon  upg         0.71        0.75  

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Starting the upgrade/download of following FPD:

=========== ==== ======= ======= =========== =========

                                   Current    Upg/Dng

Location    Type Subtype Upg/Dng   Version    Version

=========== ==== ======= ======= =========== =========

0/0/1       spa  fpga3   upg         0.08        1.00  

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No fpd on location 0/1/CPU0 need upgrade at this time.

.

FPD upgrade in progress. Max timeout remaining 87 min.

Successfully upgraded     fpga3 for       A9K-MPA-20X1GE on location       0/0/1 from  0.08 to  1.00

.

FPD upgrade in progress. Max timeout remaining

Successfully upgraded       cbc for        A9K-RSP440-TR on location 0/RSP1/CPU0 from 16.115 to 16.116

Successfully upgraded     fpga2 for        A9K-RSP440-TR on location 0/RSP1/CPU0 from  1.06 to  1.09

Successfully upgraded      fpga for        A9K-RSP440-TR on location 0/RSP1/CPU0 from  0.10 to  0.11

Successfully upgraded    rommon for        A9K-RSP440-TR on location 0/RSP1/CPU0 from  0.71 to  0.75

.

FPD upgrade in progress. Max timeout remaining 64 min.

Successfully upgraded       cbc for        A9K-RSP440-TR on location 0/RSP0/CPU0 from 16.115 to 16.116

Successfully upgraded      fpga for        A9K-RSP440-TR on location 0/RSP0/CPU0 from  0.10 to  0.11

Successfully upgraded     fpga2 for        A9K-RSP440-TR on location 0/RSP0/CPU0 from  1.06 to  1.09

Successfully upgraded    rommon for        A9K-RSP440-TR on location 0/RSP0/CPU0 from  0.71 to  0.75

Successfully upgraded       cbc for         ASR-9006-FAN on location    0/FT0/SP from  5.00 to  5.03

Successfully upgraded       cbc for         ASR-9006-FAN on location    0/FT1/SP from  5.00 to  5.03

FPD upgrade has ended

Afterwards we rebooted the box, but it never came fully active (no config, rsp1 in rommon, lc's not started)