Download Software for a Delayed Upgrade

A delayed upgrade is a standard upgrade for which the reboot of the SLX device and commit of the software are postponed.

1. Download the software from the hosting server.
   

   device# firmware download ftp noactivate user user pass extreme host
   10.x.x.x dir builds/slxos20.1.1a
   
   Performing system sanity check...
   You are running firmware download without Activating the downloaded firmware. 
     Please use firmware activate to activate the firmware.
   Do you want to continue? [y/n]:y
   If you enter y after the prompt, the device will download and install the firmware 
     to the secondary image location. This can be verified using the 'show version' 
     command. In the output below, note that firmware 20.x.x is active, but 20.x.x 
     has been loaded to the secondary, for future activation.
   device# show ver
   
   SLX-OS Operating System Version: 20.x.x
   Copyright (c) 1995-2020 Extreme Networks, Inc.
   Firmware name:      20.x.x
   Build Time:         09:27:29 Dec 19, 2019
   Install Time:       17:44:23 Dec 20, 2019
   Kernel:             4.14.67
   Control Processor:  Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3758 @ 2.20GHz,  8 cores
   Microcode Version:  0x2e
   Memory Size:        System Total: 15632 MB
   System Uptime:      19days 4hrs 8mins 8secs 
   
   Name     Primary/Secondary Versions 
   ------------------------------------------
   SLX-OS   20.x.x
            20.x.x

   The device loads the software (firmware) image to the secondary image location. At this point, you can activate the image during a maintenance window.
2. During a maintenance window, active the image.
   

   device# firmware activate
   
   This command will activate the firmware. It will cause a cold reboot and will 
   require that existing telnet, secure telnet or SSH sessions be restarted.
   
   Do you want to continue? [y/n]:y

   The device reboots and the new software is committed.