Type Sizes Description; General purpose: B, Dsv3, Dv3, Dasv4, Dav4, DSv2, Dv2, Av2, DC, DCv2, Dv4, Dsv4, Ddv4, Ddsv4: Balanced CPU-to-memory ratio. Ideal for testing. Downloading image from Controller. ERROR: Image is not a valid IOS image archive. Download image failed, notify controller!!! From:8.0.110.0 to 0.0.0.0, FailureCode:3 The access point joined the controller successfully and attempted to download the current archive from the controller, but the whole operation failed.

The Cisco lightweight access point managed by the wireless controller is not a new product. It has been on the market for years, evolved from LWAPP to CAPWAP model, is supporting a wide range of access point models. The idea is that access point upgrades its firmware when it registers to WLC. Sounds easy? Yes. Eminent persians pdf files. Is it working? Yes, usually, but not always. Sometimes you need to perform a manual lightweight access point firmware upgrade procedure which is not well documented. And you need to know a hidden command. I will show you how.

My lightweight access point image is too old

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What are the symptoms that you cannot upgrade your access point automatically? On the web dashboard, you will see the access point reappearing with Operational Status set to Downloading. However, this does not answer the question what exactly the problem is. More answers you will get from the access point console

The access point joined the controller successfully and attempted to download the current archive from the controller, but the whole operation failed. The FailureCode:3 does not point to a reason.

Imazing 2 5 2 (8275). My access point out-of-box had preinstalled firmware 15.3(3)JA1, the latest vWLC version 8.6.101.0 requires the 15.3(3)JG1. As we can see the 15.3(3)JA1 is compatible with controller firmware release 8.0.110.0 – both released in 2014.

In my case, I suspect one of the possible reasons why automatic firmware upgrade did not work is that for Cisco Aironet 3700 with release 15.3(3)JF has changed the platform code from ap3g2 to c3700. I could see this when I listed available images in WLC

Another possible reason was that the download or image verification process changes significantly and access point was not able to verify the new image. That is not an uncommon problem in Cisco; we saw this on ASA already.

Manual firmware update

You can perform manual firmware upgrade in such situation loading either up-to-date version or any close to this. You can download the firmware from cisco.com, but you need valid service contract assigned to your CCO profile. I got 15.3(3)JF release.

First, put the downloaded archive on the server accessible from subnet where access point gets its IP address from. This image needs to be accessible via HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, TFTP or SCP.

To download, extract and install new firmware you need to use the archive command, but it is not available by default

To enable the archive command, you need first enable hidden debug mode

Now while the archive command is active, you can download firmware manually from your server

The access point running old firmware will constantly attempt to join the controller and download the firmware. If you try to run manual upgrade at this point, you will see the error message.

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You can add /overwrite option to remove old firmware if you want. When the installation is completed, you need to reload the access point manually. Now it should be able to join the controller and download the latest 15.3(3)JG1 firmware from it.

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