Friday, December 7, 2018

Cisco WLC Software Upgrade via CLI

I had to upgrade a Cisco WLC 2504 from 8.2.166 to 8.2.170 but for some reason, my web browser (both IE and FF) doesn't prompt to reboot the WLC. So I performed a WLC software upgrade using the CLI instead.

Here's a link where I previously performed an upgrade on using the web GUI.


(Cisco Controller) >transfer download datatype code

(Cisco Controller) >transfer download mode ftp

(Cisco Controller) >transfer download serverip 172.27.5.2

(Cisco Controller) >transfer download filename AIR-CT2500-K9-8-2-170-0.aes

(Cisco Controller) >transfer download start

Mode............................................. FTP  
Data Type........................................ Code         
FTP Server IP.................................... 172.27.5.2
FTP Server Port.................................. 21
FTP Path......................................... ./
FTP Filename..................................... AIR-CT2500-K9-8-2-170-0.aes
FTP Username..................................... ftpuser
FTP Password..................................... *********

This may take some time.
Are you sure you want to start? (y/N) y

FTP Code transfer starting.

FTP receive complete... extracting components.

Image version check passed.

Executing backup script.

Writing new RTOS to flash disk.

Writing new FP to flash disk.

Writing new AP Image Bundle to flash disk.

Executing fini script.

File transfer is successful. 
Reboot the controller for update to complete. 
Optionally, pre-download the image to APs before rebooting to reduce network downtime.


(Cisco Controller) >config ap image predownload primary all      // PRE-DOWNLOAD IMAGE TO AP (LESS DOWNTIME)


(Cisco Controller) >reset system     // REBOOT WLC FOR NEW OS TO TAKE EFFECT


The system has unsaved changes.
Would you like to save them now? (y/N) y

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