As a general practice, a reboot before an upgrade is extra insurance that a long running kit is not in some odd state. Of course kit can get into an odd state at any time, not just after long uptime. Of course the shorter the uptime, the lesser the odds. On flashing various small embedded linux systems, long uptimes increased the risk of failure. If you can afford the slightly longer service window, then by all means a reboot before flashing may be prudent.
Now, there is sometimes a difference between a soft boot and a full power cycle boot but unless Eric gets real crafty, I don't see a hard boot as probable. I've had some radios that a soft boot would not fix and needed the power to be yanked. There was an issue as well with the TS5 that needed the AC cord to be pulled as well, but I digress.
When I was doing server patch management, we always did a reboot before applying patches and another reboot after patching. In fact we setup Shavlik to do that automatically. I think Netonix Manager should have that option available.
BTW, have you guys come up with a TLA yet for this tool?
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sirhc - Employee
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Re: Netonix Manager RC
I just upgraded a WS-12-250A that we had forgotten about for over a year and a half. It was at a remote tower we pay little attention to.
It had v1.0.0rcX if that tell you anything. Upgraded it with the manager no problems.
3/9/2016 2:22:03 PM Created device 172.17.0.2
3/9/2016 2:22:37 PM Upgrading device 172.17.0.2 with firmware wispswitch-1.3.9.bin
3/9/2016 2:28:38 PM Upgrading device 172.17.0.2 complete, rebooting
It had v1.0.0rcX if that tell you anything. Upgraded it with the manager no problems.
3/9/2016 2:22:03 PM Created device 172.17.0.2
3/9/2016 2:22:37 PM Upgrading device 172.17.0.2 with firmware wispswitch-1.3.9.bin
3/9/2016 2:28:38 PM Upgrading device 172.17.0.2 complete, rebooting
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Re: Netonix Manager RC
sirhc wrote:
After a firmware upgrade it does a reboot normally?
I was talking about radioes, routers etc. After firmware upgrade of them, always nice to reboot everything....
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jjonsson wrote:sirhc wrote:
After a firmware upgrade it does a reboot normally?
I was talking about radioes, routers etc. After firmware upgrade of them, always nice to reboot everything....
You're confusing me, our software only address our switches????
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lligetfa wrote:As a general practice, a reboot before an upgrade is extra insurance that a long running kit is not in some odd state.
I totally agree....
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I think he's asking to be able to schedule a report of a port from the software?
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Re: Netonix Manager RC
Has anyone else installed this yet?
We had wanted to let the Associates play with it before we released to public.
We need feedback, feature requests, UI comments, you know a shake down.
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Re: Netonix Manager RC
Install howto on Debian 7, don't forget to change version for the latest at wget line.
GUI seem nice, I like the auto shell login. Would be nice it would be possible to also auto-login when opening GUI. I will ask somebody to do firmware upgrade tests.
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apt-get install curl
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | bash -
apt-get install nodejs
cd /tmp
wget http://forum.netonix.com/netonix-manager/netonix-manager_1.0.0rc5_all.deb
dpkg -i netonix-manager_1.0.0rc5_all.deb
GUI seem nice, I like the auto shell login. Would be nice it would be possible to also auto-login when opening GUI. I will ask somebody to do firmware upgrade tests.
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Re: Netonix Manager RC
mike99 wrote:
GUI seem nice, I like the auto shell login. Would be nice it would be possible to also auto-login when opening GUI. I will ask somebody to do firmware upgrade tests.
GUI auto-login will work with firmware 1.4.0.
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Re: Netonix Manager RC
Probably already planned but I think "schedule" tab should have a [+] buton to add scheduled tasks.
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