CN101316190A - Equipment software upgrading method for reducing number of service interruption - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides an equipment software upgrade method which can reduces service interruption times, comprising the steps of: downloading all upgrade software needed to be downloaded by a piece of equipment into the corresponding single boards of the equipment; then activating all the single boards downloaded with the upgrade software simultaneously. The method needs not to increase the hardware cost of the equipment, the operation is simple and flexible and the equipment upgrade efficiency is high; at the same time, the service interruption times during the upgrade process of the equipment is reduced, thus reducing equipment upgrade risk and improving the reliability of the equipment.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to the embedded communication field, relate in particular to a kind of equipment software upgrading method that includes master control borad and service board.
Background technology
Along with the progress in epoch, the information science develop rapidly, the cycle that the software and hardware upgrade of various systems is regenerated is shorter and shorter.Especially the renewal of software, because the cost of software upgrading is less, and can bring bigger income, so the update cycle of software is especially short.In various real application systems, for example in the system such as communication system, automated system, a kind of especially general phenomenon of software upgrading.
Communication equipment can insert the polylith veneer usually, and control the configuring maintenance and the software loading of other veneers by master control borad, need be in master control borad during equipment software upgrading with software loading, by master control borad new version software is downloaded to different veneers again, after needing simultaneously to activate each veneer, finish the software upgrading of equipment.When activating veneer, often need Reset Board and break in service causes certain loss, influence the reliability of equipment.
For communication equipment, people are more and more higher to the requirement of equipment dependability, this means that to require device interrupt service the least possible, and fault recovery is fast as far as possible, and fault effects is as far as possible little, and the consequence that causes of communication disruption also becomes more and more serious simultaneously.The survivability of communication network has become crucial design to be considered, also becomes the important focus of the competition between market access environment lower network network operator or the service supplier.Therefore, the upgrade method of introducing a kind of stability and high efficiency is one of key of lifting means reliability.
Present existing method for upgrading software mainly concentrates on single in the equipment or same type board software upgrade method, lacks the consideration to the equipment integral upgrading.Publication number is that the patent application of CN 101119188A discloses the professional continual single board updating method of a kind of realization, the service disconnection number of times that this method is brought in order to reduce software upgrading, the main method that adopts active and standby configuration veneer, the upgrading standby board carries out masterslave switchover, the new standby board of upgrading again earlier, thereby realized the veneer smooth upgrade, and do not need to interrupt the business of veneer, played in the escalation process and professionally to continue the effect of systems stabilisation.But this method has increased the device hardware cost, has reduced efficiency of upgrading software, has increased the complexity of software.
Therefore need a kind of equipment software upgrading method and can overcome increase device hardware cost in the prior art, the shortcoming of software complexity, the whole upgrading of slave unit software angle is finished the upgrading of equipment.
Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention provides a kind of equipment software upgrading method that reduces the service disconnection number of times, finish the software upgrading of equipment from the angle of integral body upgrading, can reduce interruption times professional in the software upgrade process effectively, and need not to increase the device hardware cost.
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, the invention provides a kind of equipment software upgrading method that reduces the service disconnection number of times, comprise: the upgrade software that an equipment will be downloaded all downloads in the veneer corresponding on this equipment, activates the veneer that all have downloaded described upgrade software at synchronization then.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
When activating the described veneer of downloading upgrade software, also the requirement according to the upgrade software of described download resets to veneer.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described veneer comprises master control borad and service board; Described upgrade software comprises master control borad software and service board software.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
The upgrade software that described master control borad adopts following steps that this equipment will be downloaded all downloads in the veneer corresponding on this equipment: described master control borad judges whether all upgrade softwares that are kept in the server assigned catalogue need to download, download if desired and then described upgrade software downloaded in the described master control borad, and with the service board software download in the upgrade software of described download in this equipment with the corresponding service board of described service board software in.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described master control borad adopts following steps to judge whether the upgrade software that is kept in the described server assigned catalogue needs to download: described master control borad obtains all software informations that are kept at the upgrade software in the described server assigned catalogue, successively to the software information of each upgrade software of obtaining, in this equipment, search the software information that is complementary with described upgrade software in software information and the board type relation table on the throne, if there is the software information that is complementary with described upgrade software, then judging needs to download described upgrade software, otherwise judgement does not need to download described upgrade software.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
If in described software information and board type relation table on the throne, find the software information that the software information with a certain upgrade software is complementary, described master control borad is judged also whether the version of described upgrade software is higher than and is recorded in the version that is write down in the software information that the software information with described upgrade software in described software information and the board type relation table on the throne is complementary, if be higher than then judge that needs download described upgrade software, otherwise judge and do not need to download described upgrade software.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described master control borad also upgrades described software information and board type relation table on the throne after having downloaded described upgrade software.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described service board is one or more service boards with identical or different type.
A kind of equipment software upgrading method that reduces the service disconnection number of times of the present invention does not need to increase the device hardware cost, simple to operate, flexibly, device upgrade efficient height, reduced the number of times of service disconnection in the device upgrade process simultaneously, reduce the risk of device upgrade, improved the reliability of equipment.
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Fig. 1 is a communication equipment basic structure schematic diagram.
Fig. 2 is the process schematic diagram of present device software upgrading.
Fig. 3 is the flow chart that embodiment of the invention SDH equipment carries out software upgrading.
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The present invention proposes a kind of equipment software upgrading method that reduces the service disconnection number of times, finishes the software upgrading of equipment from the angle of integral body upgrading, can effectively reduce interruption times professional in the software upgrade process.It is conceived substantially: the upgrade software that an equipment will be downloaded all downloads in the veneer corresponding in this equipment, activates the veneer that all have downloaded upgrade software at synchronization then, carries out board resetting according to concrete software requirement simultaneously.Because the activation of all veneers is carried out at one time in the process of upgrading, so software upgrading for entire equipment, if when activating veneer, need the Reset Board interrupting service, only passed through the software upgrading that once professional interruption just can be finished entire equipment.
With reference to figure 1, this figure is a communication equipment basic structure schematic diagram, comprise a master control borad (NetworkControl Processing, be called for short NCP), and one or more service board, the type of wherein said a plurality of service boards can be all identical, also can be all inequality, can also be incomplete same promptly only the type of the service board of some be identical.Master control borad is used to control the configuring maintenance and the software loading of a plurality of service boards; When equipment software upgrading, need earlier software loading to master control borad, by master control borad new version software to be downloaded on the corresponding service veneer again, activate each veneer then after, finish the software upgrading of equipment.Described master control borad and service board can be referred to as veneer.
Accordingly, be used for that communication equipment is carried out upgrading software and be divided into service board software and master control borad software again according to the type of the veneer of supporting described software.
So that a SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy)) equipment is upgraded to example, the present invention is done being described in further detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings below.Described SDH equipment belongs to a kind of of communication equipment, and the basic structure of its basic structure and communication equipment shown in Figure 1 is identical, is equally applicable to other communication equipments so this equipment is carried out software upgrade method.
With reference to figure 2, the process that this equipment is upgraded mainly comprises download and activates two parts.Wherein, in downloading part, the upgrade software that download of this equipment is all downloaded in the veneer of correspondence in this equipment; After having downloaded all upgrade softwares, activation manipulation is carried out in unification, promptly activates the veneer that all have downloaded upgrade software at synchronization, simultaneously according to concrete software requirement, Reset Board.The process step that specifically carries out software upgrading comprises as shown in Figure 3:
Step S301: the upgrade software of a SDH equipment is kept in the assigned catalogue of server, issues the order of updating apparatus software then by server to the master control borad of SDH equipment;
Be used for described SDH equipment is carried out FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array, field programmable gate array) software and the master control borad software that upgrading software comprises service board.
Step S302: after master control borad is received the order of updating apparatus software, set up the file transfer link, and from the assigned catalogue of described server, obtain the software information of first upgrade software with server;
Described software information can comprise dbase, type and software version information; Described software information is the foundation that is used to judge whether to download this upgrade software.
Step S303: master control borad judges whether to need to download this upgrade software, downloads if desired and then this upgrade software is downloaded to master control borad, enters step S304 then; Otherwise, enter step S305;
Because the veneer that equipment is supported not necessarily all uses in the equipment of upgrading, such as: this equipment is supported the A veneer, but not configuration of A veneer in the equipment of needs upgrading, then do not need to download the pairing software of A veneer, therefore, carry out needing also to judge one by one whether the upgrade software that is kept in the described server assigned catalogue needs to download before the download of upgrade software.Master control borad can judge whether to need to download this upgrade software with the software information and the board type relation table on the throne that are kept in the equipment, be that master control borad travels through described relation table, there is the veneer on the throne of supporting this upgrade software in this equipment if having the software information that the software information with described upgrade software is complementary in the described relation table then illustrate, needs to download this upgrade software; Otherwise the veneer on the throne of not supporting this upgrade software in this equipment is described, does not download, continue to judge next upgrade software in the assigned catalogue that is kept at described server.
Preferably, for this upgrade software in the assigned catalogue that guarantees to be kept at described server is the upgrade software of latest edition, after can also in described software information and board type relation table on the throne, finding the software information that the software information with this upgrade software is complementary, whether the version that continues to judge described upgrade software is higher than the version that is recorded in the software information that the software information with described upgrade software in described software information and the board type relation table on the throne is complementary, if be higher than then judge that needs download described upgrade software, otherwise enter step S305.
If judging needs to download this upgrade software, then master control borad also upgrades described software information and board type relation table on the throne after having downloaded this upgrade software,
Step S304: judge that it still is service board software that this upgrade software belongs to master control borad software, if master control borad software then forwards step S305 to; If service board software then downloads to this upgrade software in all service boards that need download this upgrade software, after finishing, download forwards step S305 to;
Master control borad judges that according to the type of the pairing veneer of this upgrade software this upgrade software is master control borad software or other service board software, if promptly the board type of this upgrade software correspondence is a master control borad, then this upgrade software belongs to master control borad software, if the board type of this upgrade software correspondence is a service board, then this upgrade software belongs to service board software.
If judging this upgrade software is service board software, then master control borad sends the software download order to all service boards that need download this upgrade software, service board provides accordingly and replys, after master control borad receives the response message of service board, by the file transfer protocol (FTP) between service board and the master control borad, such as adopting FTP (File Transfer Protocol, file transfer protocol (FTP)) to download software in the service board.
Step S305: master control borad judges whether also have other upgrade softwares in described server assigned catalogue, if judged result is a "Yes", then obtains the software information of described other upgrade softwares, and forwards step S303 to; If judged result is "No" then enters step S306;
Described other upgrade softwares are meant and are kept in the server assigned catalogue, but are not obtained its software information by this master control borad and carried out the upgrade software of correlated judgment.
Above-mentioned steps has been finished this equipment shown in Figure 2 and has been carried out software download part in the software upgrade process, will introduce below and activate part:
Step S306: activate the veneer that all have downloaded upgrade software at synchronization;
Master control borad judges that each upgrade software of described download is master control borad software or service board software, if master control borad software then directly activates this master control borad, if service board software then sends activation command to all service boards corresponding with described service board software.
The veneer that this step has also been downloaded upgrade software in activation is when (comprising service board and master control borad), carries out board resetting according to the needs of different software.Because carry out the activation of all veneers in the process of software upgrading carries out at synchronization at this equipment, so software upgrading for entire equipment, if when activating veneer, need the Reset Board interrupting service, so only need pass through the software upgrading that a time service disconnection just can be finished entire equipment.
The above is the preferred embodiments of the present invention only, is not limited to the present invention, and for a person skilled in the art, the present invention can have various changes and variation.Within the spirit and principles in the present invention all, any modification of being done, be equal to replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.
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1, a kind of equipment software upgrading method that reduces the service disconnection number of times is characterized in that:
The upgrade software that one equipment will be downloaded all downloads in the veneer corresponding on this equipment, activates the veneer that all have downloaded described upgrade software at synchronization then.
2, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that:
When activating the described veneer of downloading upgrade software, also the requirement according to the upgrade software of described download resets to veneer.
3, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that:
Described veneer comprises master control borad and service board; Described upgrade software comprises master control borad software and service board software.
4, method as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that:
The upgrade software that described master control borad adopts following steps that this equipment will be downloaded all downloads in the veneer corresponding on this equipment: described master control borad judges whether all upgrade softwares that are kept in the server assigned catalogue need to download, download if desired and then described upgrade software downloaded in the described master control borad, and with the service board software download in the upgrade software of described download in this equipment with the corresponding service board of described service board software in.
5, method as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that:
Described master control borad adopts following steps to judge whether the upgrade software that is kept in the described server assigned catalogue needs to download: described master control borad obtains all software informations that are kept at the upgrade software in the described server assigned catalogue, successively to the software information of each upgrade software of obtaining, in this equipment, search the software information that is complementary with described upgrade software in software information and the board type relation table on the throne, if there is the software information that is complementary with described upgrade software, then judging needs to download described upgrade software, otherwise judgement does not need to download described upgrade software.
6, method as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that:
If in described software information and board type relation table on the throne, find the software information that the software information with a certain upgrade software is complementary, described master control borad is judged also whether the version of described upgrade software is higher than and is recorded in the version that is write down in the software information that the software information with described upgrade software in described software information and the board type relation table on the throne is complementary, if be higher than then judge that needs download described upgrade software, otherwise judge and do not need to download described upgrade software.
7, method as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that:
Described master control borad also upgrades described software information and board type relation table on the throne after having downloaded described upgrade software.
8, method as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that:
Described service board is one or more service boards with identical or different type.
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