Cisco Reload Slot Command
Reloading and Upgrading
If there is more than one switch in the switch stack, and you enter the reload slot stack-member-number command, you are not prompted to save the configuration. be aware of this if you reload the active member using the slot option 0. In Cisco IOS, whenever you enter a configuration command it takes effect immediately and goes into the 'running configuration'. When the router boots up it loads the 'startup configuration'. To make your changes persistent over a reboot you need to copy the running configuration to the startup configuration with the 'copy run start command'. You can use the reload at command to schedule a reboot of the whole stack but there is no way that I'm aware of to reload an individual stack member at a specific time, without resorting to third-party tools to issue the reload slot command at a specific time. The command is “ip route profile” in global configuration mode. This feature can be disabled with the command “no ip route profile” in global configuration mode. Routing table change statistics can be viewed with the “show ip route profile” command in exec mode. Reference: CSCdi76662: ipc-console slot-num privileged exec.
A system restart on Cisco routers is called a reload. If the router needs to be reloaded for any reason, the reload command needs to be entered from privileged mode, as shown in Example 4-4. The reload command also allows a time to be set so that the system restarts after the specified time expires.
Example 4-4 System Reload Options
The system can also be reloaded by switching it off and then back on again.
The configuration register is used to specify the router's behavior during the reloading process. It determines whether the IOS image should be loaded, determines whether terminal access parameters are provided, and enables or disables the Esc key. The configuration register can be modified in configuration mode using the config-register command.
CAUTION
Use the config-register command only if you completely understand its effects. Incorrect use of this command can make the system inaccessible.
By default, the router first tries to boot from the first image in the onboard system Flash, if available, and then it tries the PCMCIA Flash cards. The user may also specify which images or locations to attempt booting from and the order using the boot system command in configuration mode:
This causes the system to attempt booting from an image in the Flash memory in PCMCIA slot 0 before going to the onboard system Flash.
To upgrade the Cisco IOS software version running on a router, you must first determine the right image to upgrade to using the upgrade planners available on http://www.cisco.com.
CAUTION
Attempting to load an incorrect image for your system might leave the system inaccessible. Ensure that you have the correct software image and meet the RAM and Flash memory requirements to run and store the image before installing.
The copy command copies an image into Flash memory. There are many ways to do this, as demonstrated in Example 4-5.
Example 4-5 Options for Copying an IOS Image into Flash Memory
The most common methods are TFTP and FTP. After the file has been placed on your TFTP or FTP server, enter the copy command from privileged mode and answer the questions on server IP address and source and destination filenames. After you specify which image the system should load using the boot system command, a reload is required for the new version of IOS to be booted.
We are currently suffering from a couple bugs (one internal which causes the switch to reboot and one cosmetic bug that just fills up our syslog server). Consequently, we are upgrading a total of 92 Cisco 3850 switches over the course of 2 nights.I decided to set up constant pings to our devices and use the 'reload at' command to reload all of the switch stacks on all 6 floors of one building at the same time.
We are currently on code version 03.03.05 and are upgrading to 03.07.00 at the advice of Cisco TAC.
I couldn't find much good documentation on the 'reload at' command so I used my test switch stack to figure it out (using the question mark on the CLI is kind of ambiguous).
Below shows what I typed into the CLI:
Cisco 3850 Reload Slot Command
Cisco Reload Slot Command Generator
You can also issue the following command to reload on a specific day:
Switch#reload at 20:00 07 Dec Upgrade
or a specific time:
Switch#reload in 120 (reloads the switch in 2 hours)
Update - 6/10/2015
Reload/Upgrade successful!
Here is what the switch does when you are logged in to it.
Reload scheduled for 21:05:00 PDT Tue Jun 9 2015 (in 1 minute and 20 seconds) by xxxxxxxxx on vty0 (x.x.x.x)
Reload reason: 6/09/15 Upgrade
Swtich#sh clo
21:03:56.858 PDT Tue Jun 9 2015
Switch#
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*** --- SHUTDOWN in 0:01:00 ---
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Switch#
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*** --- SHUTDOWN NOW ---
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Update - 4/29/2016
Cisco Reload Ospf
We are no longer on IOS 03.07.00 and have actually downgraded to 03.06.04 which is the recommended release. We were having some 'bug'gy behavior.