APC AP7900 manual Use FTP or SCP to upgrade one Rack PDU, Apchw02aos264.bin Apchw02app266.bin

Switched Rack PDU

USER’S GUIDE

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Use FTP or SCP to upgrade one Rack PDU

Instructions for using FTP. For you to be able to use FTP to upgrade a single Switched Rack PDU over the network:

•The Switched Rack PDU must be connected to the network.

•The FTP server must be enabled at the Switched Rack PDU.

•The Switched Rack PDU must have its TCP/IP settings (System IP, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway addresses) configured.

To use FTP to upgrade the Rack PDU:

1.Open an MS-DOS command prompt window on a computer that is connected to the network. Go to the directory that contains the firmware upgrade files, and list the files. For the directory C:\apc, the commands would be those shown in bold:

C:\>cd\apc C:\apc>dir

Files listed for a Switched Rack PDU, for example, might be the following:

–apc_hw02_aos_264.bin

–apc_hw02_app_266.bin

2.Open an FTP client session:

C:\apc>ftp

3.Type open and the Switched Rack PDU’s IP address, and press ENTER. If the Port setting for FTP Server in the Network menu has changed from its default of 21, you must use the non-default value in the FTP command.

a. For some FTP clients, use a colon to add the port number to the end of the IP address.

b. For Windows FTP clients, separate the port number from the IP address by a space. For example, if the Rack PDU’s FTP Server Port setting has been changed from its default of 21, such as to

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