4-18 Dell PowerVault 51F 8-Port Fibre Channel Switch Installation and Troubleshooting GuidefastbootThe fastboot command initiates a warm reboot that bypasses POST and takes aboutone minute to reboot the switch. The switch may be in any operational state (enabledor disabled) before rebooting.The following is an example of the fastboot command screen.firmwareDownloadThe firmwareDownload command downloads firmware into flash memory. Thiscommand can be executed on an operational switch. A reboot is required to initiatethe new firmware after the download has completed. The following is an example ofthe firmwareDownload command screen.Firmware can be downloaded from a UNIX, Windows 95, or Windows NT host. For aUNIX host, no special software is needed. For Windows 95 or Windows NT host, theDell PowerVault system utilities diskette provides a daemon to support a remote shell(RSH). A firmware download is executed via an RCP command running on top ofTransmission Control Protocol (TCP) between the switch and the host.To download the firmware, perform the following steps:1. Run the setup.exe file on the Dell PowerVault system utilities diskette to installthe rshd.exe and cat.exe utility files on the hard-disk drive.multicast alias group Each line shows:• The alias group number (01 to 31)• The alias group ID• The alias tokenAlias groups are only created on demandby requests to the alias server; typicallyno groups are listed.Table 4-9. fabricShow Command Field Descriptions (continued)Fabric Element Descriptionswitch:admin> fastbootRebooting...switch:admin> firmwareDownload "host","user","c:/firmware/v2.01159196+194916+876016, csum 7ecawriting flash 0......download complete
