SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UPDATING A NETWORK ELEMENT

摘要

A method and apparatus of a device that performs a hitless update a boot image of a network element. In this embodiment, the device identifies the network element to update and determines if the network element has redundant paths. If this network element has redundant paths, the device configures the network element to drain data processing of the network element. In addition, the device updates the network element to a new boot image when the data processing of the network element is drained.

主权项

1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method to perform a hitless update a boot image of a network element, the method comprising:
identifying the network element to update; determining if the network element is involved in redundant paths; and if that network element is involved in redundant paths,
configuring the network element to drain data processing of the network element, andupdating the network element to a new boot image when the data processing of the network element is drained.