Cisco 1200 Series APs

[ciscotx]

Is there a way to copy the flash image off of one Access Point???? reason being is that I have three APs, one of them running 12.2(12) and two that have been upgraded to 12.3(8) but I don't have the image file... So I thought maybe I could copy that flash image to another location and then upload it via tftp.. Is this possible??? If so, can someone point me in the right direction on how to do that... thnks

 

[kcbell]

TO transfer the new image to your tftp server.

AP#copy flash:/c1200-k9w7-mx.123-8.JA2/c1200-k9w7-mx.123-8.JA2 tftp
Address or name of remote host []? 10.128.128.10
Destination filename [c1200-k9w7-mx.123-8.JA2]? <press enter here>

I found the the web interface to do software upgrade is a lot easier.

KC

 

[vipergg]

I don't know about waps but on switches you can make the switch itself a tftp server itself and just download the image from wap itself . I would turn off the feature once you are done though .

 

[ciscotx]

Thanks for the reply kcbell.. Now how do I copy the flash image from the tftp server to the AP??

 

[burtsbees]

Wow---I never knew that you could config a switch to act as a tftp server...can you tell me how real quick, and can you do the same with a Cisco router, viper???

Burt

 

[brianinms]

To make a cisco router a tftp server ...

tftp-server device:/filename

for example

tftp-server flash:/c2500-js-l.122-10b

 

[ciscotx]

I have copied the flash image from the AP to the tftp server, but now how do I upload that image using tftp to an AP running a previous version of flash???

 

[brianinms]

copy tftp://x.x.x.x/filename flash:filename

 

[ciscotx]

it copies the files and I do a reload and then I do a
sh ver
and it's still running on 12.2(13)
Am I doing something wrong???

 

[brianinms]

Are the other images in flash? If so it is booting the first one.

 

[kcbell]

From IE use type the ip address of the AP.

http://ipaddress:xxxx

where xxxx is the port that you configured.

Select the System Software tab on the left of the screen
Select sub-tab Software Upgrade

Then you can choose either HTTP Upgrade or TFTP Upgrade.

If you have the image at the flash then you enter the following line at your config to tell it which ios to boot.

boot system flash flash:/c1200-k9w7-mx.123-8.JA2/c1200-k9w7-mx.123-8.JA2

Hope this help!

KC

 

[ciscotx]

ok when I do a

sh flash I get the following files:
2 -rwx 671 Mar 01 1993 01:13:13 env_vars
153 drwx 384 Mar 01 1993 00:09:54 c1200-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA4
5 -rwx 4267 Mar 01 1993 03:01:19 c1200-k9w7-mx.123-8.JA2
4 -rwx 4267 Mar 01 1993 01:13:26 config.txt
6 -rwx 1937 Mar 01 1993 01:13:26 private-config

when I do the command recommended by kcbell, I get invalid input detected marker on the second flash word. So the image is already on flash but is not just booting up from that, is booting up from the previous one...

 

[kcbell]

Your line should look like below. If the new image is in the directory. The first flash may not be needed. I copy the exact line from my 3845 router; so you may not need the 1st "flash".

boot system flash flash:/c1200-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA4/c1200-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA4

153 drwx 384 Mar 01 1993 00:09:54 c1200-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA4

The "d" after the 153 stands for directory.

If you want to boot the following image:c1200-k9w7-mx.123-8.JA2

Then add the following in your config

boot system flash:c1200-k9w7-mx.123-8.JA2

Hope this help!

KC

 

[ciscotx]

Ok I did the command
boot system flash:/c1200-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA4/c1200-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA4 and apparently it worked. So when I do a

sh boot it give me this:
BOOT path-list: flash:/c1200-k9w7-mx.123-8.JA2/c1200-k9w7-mx.123-8.JA2
Config file: flash:/config.txt
Private Config file: flash:/private-config
Enable Break: no
Manual Boot: no
HELPER path-list:
NVRAM/Config file
buffer size: 32768

But when I do a
sh ver
it gives me this:

System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is "flash:/c1200-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA4/c1200-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA4"
Which is still booting from the old image...

 

[kcbell]

ciscotx:

Based on what I see, if you want to boot version 12.3 then you need the following in your config file

boot system flash:c1200-k9w7-mx.123-8.JA2

KC

 

[vipergg]

Burt , yes you can make a IOS switch or router a tftp server . Comes in handy when you have mutliple boxes you have to upgrade at a remote site so you don't have to download more than one copy to a site . It doesn't have to be to same device either , if you have say a router with a compact flash in you could send a switch ios version to it , set the router up as the tftp server and download locally from there , "much" faster than wan downloads . Just rememeber to turn off the function and delete the file after.