Chapter 4: Security

5.2.2 Firmware Selection

The switch supports dual images for firmware redundancy. You can select the firmware image for your device: Start firmware or Operating firmware. This page provides information about the active and alternate (backup) firmware images in the device, and enables you to revert to the alternate image.

Web Interface

To configure a Firmware Selection in the Web interface:

1.Click “Activate Alternate Image.“

2.Click “OK“ to complete firmware selection.

Figure 5-3. The Firmware Selection screen.

Parameter Description

Activate Alternate Image: Click to use the alternate image. This button may be disabled depending on system state.

Cancel: Cancel activating the backup image. Navigates away from this page.

Image: The flash index name of the firmware image. The name of primary (preferred) image is image, the alternate image is named image.bk.

Version: The version of the firmware image.

Date: The date when the firmware was produced.

NOTE: In case the active firmware image is the alternate image, only the “Active Image“ table is shown. In this case, the Activate Alternate Image button is also disabled.

NOTE: If the alternate image is active (because of a corruption of the primary image or by manual intervention), uploading a new firmware image to the device will automatically use the primary image slot and activate this.

NOTE: The firmware version and date information may be empty for older firmware releases. This does not constitute an error.

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LPB2848A, LPB2826A, LPB2810A, PoE+ Gigabit Managed Switch Eco specifications

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