Upgrading a new SRX 3600
We are putting a few new SRX 3600 clusters into production soon, and we’ve had them for about 6 months in boxes. This presented a fairly significant issue, one that I didn’t think about until it smacked me in the face.
The code on these boxes was old. Very old. JunOS 9.2 old.
No problem, lets just upgrade them to 10.4R something.
Wrong.
the code that shipped on these boxes was so old, and we waited so long to upgrade them that I was unable to upgrade them straight to anything modern. To compound the issue, the upgrade was only able to be performed from certain code level releases as noted
here.
This is a problem. I logged into the Juniper site to get the appropriate code, low and behold, it’s not available. I had to contact jtac and convince them that the code wasn’t there (which was a bit frustrating). Once they understood the issue (which took a bit longer than I expected; I don’t have Agility services on these particular boxes or I would never have had the jtac “issue”), they provided me with a download link for junos-srx3000-9.6R4.4-domestic. Once I had that code I was able to upgrade to it and then to 10.4.
Not a huge issue, but something that was very annoying to have to jump through since I’ve never seen this issue upgrading a Juniper device.
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