FWSM

[william.briere]

Hey,

I will be removing our FWSM from our 6506E and I have a question. Is there anything I should know about removing them... other than pushing the shutdown button and waiting a bit?

[lamav]

Hi:

SAVE THE CONFIG FIRST!

Back it up, too, by offloading it to a tftp server.

Make sure you do it during a maintenance window, obviously.

Make sure you are wearing a grounding strap and that it is connected securely to ground before you handle the module.

Thats about it for now...

HTH

Victor

[Jon Marshall]

William

In addition to Victor's post you can shut the module from the CLI on the switch and if you then do a "sh module" you can check when it has been shutdown properly.

Command to shut FWSM down from 6500 CLI

6500# hw-module module 7 shutdown

where 7 is the slot that the FWSM is installed in.

Jon