Method and system for storing, loading and upgrading software of communication equipment

Abstract

The invention discloses a method and system for storing, loading and upgrading software of communication equipment, and relates to the technical field of network communication. When a software package needs to be loaded, the control node of the invention finds out the software package according to the applicable software package name reported by each node The storage location, download the software package from the storage node and send it to the node applicable to the software package, unpack and start it; when the device needs to be upgraded, download the software package to be upgraded from the network management system, and push the software package to be upgraded to the storage node; record The activation version issued by the network management system, after the device is restarted, the software will be loaded according to the activation version. Software packages are stored in a distributed manner within the device, reducing repeated storage of software, making full use of device storage resources, and realizing the optimal use of storage resources within the device. The network management upgrade is managed by device. Multiple historical versions are stored inside the device, and the only activated version reduces the complexity of version upgrade and rollback operations and ensures version compatibility.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of network communication, in particular to a method and system for software storage, loading and upgrading of communication equipment. Background technique [0002] The main control single disk of the multi-card communication equipment is used as the management single disk, and then the corresponding service single disk is equipped according to the business needs. Such a device is embodied as a network element on the network management. There are currently two solutions for upgrading NEs and storing and loading software on each single disk: [0003] 1. Upgrade each single disk directly on the network management. The master control single disk program is responsible for downloading the single disk software package to the master control single disk, and at the same time forwarding the command to each single disk, and the single disk downloads the software package from the master control, and reports th...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] 1. The network management upgrades a single disk separately, and the upgrade workload is heavy

[0006] 2. The version of each single disk is easy to be wrongly upgraded, and the software package version of each single disk of the device is not easy to maintain a unity, and there are often problems of version incompatibility

[0007] 3. When there are multiple identical single disks in the device, and each disk stores software separately, there is a waste of storage resources

[0008] 4. For the old single disk with small FLASH space, the new version of the software cannot be stored after being enlarged, so it cannot be used

[0011] 1. The current equipment is becoming more and more complex, there are more and more types of single disks, and the whole package of equipment is getting larger and larger. If they are all stored in the main control single disk, the storage resources for the main control single disk are very high, and most business single disks The disk has already deployed storage resources, and it would be a huge waste if it is not used

[0012] 2. It can only complete the main control single disk--the first level upgrade of the business single disk. When a single disk has multi-level connections, such as figure 1 The shown is a typical multi-level connection device, and a unified upgrade loading scheme cannot be used for a single disk of level 3 and level 4

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