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INSTALLING THE UTILITIES ON A

2 NETWORK MANAGEMENT STATION

Before you start the upgrade process, you must install the Enterprise OS Upgrade Management Utilities on a network management station (NMS). If you are using Transcend Enterprise Manager or Transcend Network Control Services, which has the utilities bundled, you should install the latest utilities to take advantage of new features and version support.

This chapter describes how to install the Enterprise OS Upgrade Management

Utilities on the following platforms:

■Solaris 2.x

■HP-UX 10.x

■IBM AIX 4.x or later

■Windows NT 4.x

■Windows 95/98

Installing the Utilities You can install the utilities from a CD-ROM or from utilities that you have

on a Windows System downloaded to your hard disk. To install the utilities on a Windows system, follow these steps:

1If you have installed utilities before or have Transcend, check the version by entering:

bcmdiagnose

If the version is earlier than 11.3, continue to the next step. If you already have 11.3, you do not need to reinstall the utilities.

2Change to the utilities directory. ■ If you are using the CD-ROM:

aInsert the CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.

bOpen a command window.

cChange to the CD-ROM directory.

For example, if E is the drive letter for the CD-ROM, enter:

E:

3If you download the utilities to your hard disk (see Chapter 8 for information about downloading the utilities):

a Decompress the utilities.

b Open a command window.

c Change to the utilities directory using:

<drive>:\<path>\