Required Maintenance Tools; Shutting Down The System; Backing Up The Pcmcia Card; Removing And Replacing Field-Replaceable Units - Cisco 10008 Hardware Installation Manual

Chapter 5 Maintaining the Cisco 10008 Router

Required Maintenance Tools

The only tools required to perform the maintenance procedures described in this chapter are:
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Shutting Down the System

Although most components in the Cisco 10008 router are hot-swappable, you may have to shut down
the system under certain circumstances. Use the following procedure to shut down the system:
Step 1 Notify appropriate personnel that you plan to shut down the system and that the shutdown results in total
loss of service. Appropriate personnel includes the regional alarm or network monitoring center, central
office personnel, and key customers.
Before you shut down the router, use the copy command to save any configuration changes to NVRAM,
Step 2
and also, if you wish, to a Flash disk (see
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Power down the system by setting the power switch on all PEMs to the off (0) position (your system can
Step 3
be configured with one or two PEMs).

Backing Up the PCMCIA Card

Cisco recommends that you create a duplicate PCMCIA card that contains the current boot software
image and the current software configuration. You can use the backup card to quickly recover from a
major system failure. You can also use a backup card to load a new PRE module and avoid the
time-consuming reconfiguration process. For instructions to create a backup flash disk, see
the Configuration to a Flash Disk" section on page

Removing and Replacing Field-Replaceable Units

This section contains the procedures to remove and replace all of the field replaceable units (FRUs) for
the Cisco 10008 router. Before beginning any FRU procedure, be sure you are familiar with the safety
precautions outlined in
Note The illustrations in this guide depict the original Cisco 10008 chassis. Your chassis may have slight
differences, but the procedures are the same.
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A Number 2 Phillips screwdriver
A flat-blade screwdriver
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) grounding strap
for instructions about using the copy command).
Chapter 2, "Preparing for Installation."
"Relocating the Configuration to a Flash Disk" section on
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