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  • 1.  Upgrade firmware to Ex2300

    Posted 09-16-2019 14:01

    Current firmware: 

    Hostname: JUNO-B1
    Model: ex2300-24t
    Junos: 15.1X53-D57.3

    --- JUNOS 15.1X53-D57.3 Kernel 32-bit JNPR-11.0-20170825.354680_build


    Want to upgrade to 18.4.R2

    >request system software validate /tmp/image2.tgz  fails with error:

    validation fails on:

    Validating against /config/juniper.conf.gz

    This is the output error:

    .....

    Hardware Database regeneration succeeded
    Validating against /config/juniper.conf.gz
    Chassis control process: <xnm:error xmlns="http://xml.juniper.net/xnm/1.1/xnm" xmlns:xnm="http://xml.juniper.net/xnm/1.1/xnm">
    Chassis control process: <source-daemon>chassisd</source-daemon>
    Chassis control process: <edit-path>[edit interfaces]</edit-path>
    Chassis control process: <statement>xe-0/1/1</statement>
    Chassis control process: <message>INTERFACES_TYPE_UNIDIR: Error in parsing interface name</message>
    Chassis control process: </xnm:error>
    mgd: error: configuration check-out failed
    Validation failed

     

     

     



  • 2.  RE: Upgrade firmware to Ex2300
    Best Answer

     
    Posted 09-16-2019 18:47

    Hi Ivugrinec, jumping over more than 2 main releases is not supported. Also, 15 and 18.4 codes have major changes, instead try to move first to: 15.1X53-D58 or 15.1X53-D590, and then move to 18.2 before getting to 18.4.

     

    See:

    https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/topic-map/upgrading-and-downgrading-to-upgraded-bsd.html

    ""You can skip no more than two releases when upgrading (or downgrading). That means you can upgrade only to one of the three releases subsequent to your current release. If you want to upgrade across more releases than this, you need to perform multiple upgrades.""



  • 3.  RE: Upgrade firmware to Ex2300

     
    Posted 09-16-2019 19:09

    The 2 release jump limitation, is more or less precautionary.  The jump should actually work, but are you sure you have the right EX2300 image?  I think you would be best to land on (at least right now) 18.2R3-S1.  The image name should have "arm" in it.  The image I found for EX2300 (includes -C and EX3400 as well) looks like this:

     

    https://cdn.juniper.net/software/junossr/18.2R3-S1.7/junos-arm-32-18.2R3-S1.7.tgz?SM_USER=rmcgovern&__gda__=1568686764_5e9150fea13f7b11a11cc00f896c451a

     

    I suspect you are not using an EX2300 image, and the reason why xe-0/1/1 is not valid in the config.  No idea what your /tmp/image2.tgz is???

     

    You should also look at this KB - https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB31201&actp=METADATA

     

    Good luck



  • 4.  RE: Upgrade firmware to Ex2300

    Posted 09-17-2019 03:08

    The solution was not to jump from current firmware directly to 18.4R2. I had to go step by step. First i updated to 15.1X53-D590 and then to 18.4R2.

    Everything wen't smoothly this way.

     

     



  • 5.  RE: Upgrade firmware to Ex2300

    Posted 05-19-2022 18:27
    I have the same issue but 15.1X53-D590 is no longer available for download.
    Is there a work around?


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    GREG WROBEL
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  • 6.  RE: Upgrade firmware to Ex2300

    Posted 05-20-2022 06:02
    You can request no longer posted versions by opening Juniper support case.

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    Steve Puluka BSEET - Juniper Ambassador
    IP Architect - DQE Communications Pittsburgh, PA (Metro Ethernet & ISP)
    http://puluka.com/home
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  • 7.  RE: Upgrade firmware to Ex2300

    Posted 05-20-2022 13:36
    They wont give me that software without valid support contract.

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    GREG WROBEL
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  • 8.  RE: Upgrade firmware to Ex2300

    Posted 05-22-2022 08:36
    Since you won't be able to the graceful upgrade path you would need to do a full format install off a USB drive.

    This will erase the current configuration and format the internal drive.  So first you would need to remove and save the current configuration file.  Download the file:
    /config/juniper.conf.gz

    Create a bootable USB for the ex2300 and do the format install on the desired version.
    https://supportportal.juniper.net/s/article/EX-How-to-format-install-EX2300s-and-EX3400s-via-USB?language=en_US

    Then you can upload and replace the config file with the original one and reboot the ex.

    Or upload the original file renamed as the first rollback configuration: juniper.conf.1.gz

    Then in configuration mode do a rollback 1 and commit.



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    Steve Puluka BSEET - Juniper Ambassador
    IP Architect - DQE Communications Pittsburgh, PA (Metro Ethernet & ISP)
    http://puluka.com/home
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  • 9.  RE: Upgrade firmware to Ex2300

    Posted 06-07-2022 16:21
    So we had this problem and it was related to not having  unit 0 on all the non AE interfaces. It seems that on different versions the system will hceck to make sure you have certain things set in your config and sometimes they dont.
    We got by this one of two ways, either set unit  0 on all the interfaces or re did the no-validate command when we did the upgrades. Both worked for us.
    Of course we still did not make more than that 2 version jump just to be safe.

    ge-1/0/5 {
    traps;
    unit 0 {
    family ethernet-switching;
    }
    }
    ge-1/0/6 {
    traps;
    unit 0 {
    family ethernet-switching;
    }
    }
    ge-1/0/7 {
    traps;
    unit 0 {
    family ethernet-switching;
    }
    }
    ge-1/0/8 {
    traps;
    unit 0 {
    family ethernet-switching;
    }
    }

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    Steven Skula
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