Thursday, October 16, 2014

Patching Cisco ACS

Problem

During an ACS upgrade I have gotten the following error message many times and banged my head against the nearest wall:
 "% Manifest file not found in the bundle"

Here is an example:
acs/admin# patch install 5-6-0-22-1.tar.gpg Upgrade
Do you want to save the current configuration ? (yes/no) [yes] ?
Generating configuration...
Saved the running configuration to startup successfully
% Manifest file not found in the bundle
acs/admin#

Commence Head-Wall meetings

Reason
Here is (in my opinion) the most common reason for this error:
  • Incorrect command

Resolution

The command should be:

    • acs/admin# acs patch install 5-6-0-22-1.tar.gpg repository Upgrade ------ Correct
    • acs/admin# patch install 5-6-0-22-1.tar.gpg Upgrade -------- Incorrect