Show firmware version on command line

[ukzerosniper]

Hi Guys,

Does anyone know if it is possible to show the firmware version only on command line?

I know we can see it with show status, however that returns loads of unique information.

I would like to run a command via Unimus to quickly identify on around 1000 switches which ones are on which firmware. Ideally I dont want to have to look at each result 1 by 1.

We have found an issues with 1.5.5 that has caused instability on a number of switches and would like to find out quickly which other switches are currently running it and downgrade them to 1.5.4.

Thanks guys

[Stephen]

You can easily do that with the Netonix Manager to monitor all of these switches at once to see their firmware versions and upgrade/downgrade as necessary.

Could you provide some more details on the problem you're seeing with 1.5.5?

[Omniflux]

Does anyone know if it is possible to show the firmware version only on command line?

I don't know a single command you can use. Can you issue multiple commands?

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Z-133 PoE Switch# cmdline

BusyBox v1.19.4 (2018-06-01 19:38:44 EDT) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
 
admin@Z-133_PoE_Switch:/www# cat version.txt && exit
1.5.5
Z-133 PoE Switch#


[ukzerosniper]

You can easily do that with the Netonix Manager to monitor all of these switches at once to see their firmware versions and upgrade/downgrade as necessary.

Could you provide some more details on the problem you're seeing with 1.5.5?

We found that one switch simply wouldnt pass traffic correctly across its VLANS. It seemed that it was generating a huge amount of ARP traffic. It was really unusual..

We found that another switch could not pass VLAN traffic when running QinQ to use the switch as a midspan POE injector.

[ukzerosniper]

Does anyone know if it is possible to show the firmware version only on command line?

I don't know a single command you can use. Can you issue multiple commands?

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Z-133 PoE Switch# cmdline

BusyBox v1.19.4 (2018-06-01 19:38:44 EDT) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
 
admin@Z-133_PoE_Switch:/www# cat version.txt && exit
1.5.5
Z-133 PoE Switch#


This looks interesting, we could certainly try this. Thanks

[ukzerosniper]

You can easily do that with the Netonix Manager to monitor all of these switches at once to see their firmware versions and upgrade/downgrade as necessary.

Could you provide some more details on the problem you're seeing with 1.5.5?

Great, I will have a look, I didn't realize this was a thing!

Thanks

[ukzerosniper]

Does anyone know if it is possible to show the firmware version only on command line?

I don't know a single command you can use. Can you issue multiple commands?

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Z-133 PoE Switch# cmdline

BusyBox v1.19.4 (2018-06-01 19:38:44 EDT) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
 
admin@Z-133_PoE_Switch:/www# cat version.txt && exit
1.5.5
Z-133 PoE Switch#


This looks interesting, we could certainly try this. Thanks

Just to update, this worked perfectly