I have a situation to do an image upgrade on a couple of nodes that's not in our network anymore. The only option is to connect to the console port, setup the cluster and upgrade the image. I already completed a boot option-4 (clean up) on both nodes.
The challenge now is how to transfer the image from my laptop to the controllers using the http server on my laptop meaning that my laptop NIC should be able to talk to a port on the controllers (e0a, e0b, e0M etc). I can setup any of these ports on the controllers with an IP address (same subnet as my latop IP) during the initial cluster setup but I am wondering how to transfer the image to the controller using the http server when my only one laptop NIC is connected to the console port on the controller. Will I be able to get this job done using a small 4-port switch.
I am not sure if my laptop NIC will be able to talk to the controller console port through this switch. It will be a great help if I could get an answer how to make all these cable/port connections on to the 4-port swtich and to get the image upgrade done before I ship it out to another location.