Cisco Systems DL-2159-05 manual Distributing Firmware, 10-8

Chapter 10 Managing Firmware and Configurations

Distributing Firmware

Distributing Firmware

Use the Distribute Firmware page to distribute the access point’s firmware to other Cisco Aironet access points. Figure 10-7shows the Distribute Firmware page.

The access point sends its firmware to all the access points on your network that:

•Are running access point firmware version 10.00 or newer

•Can detect the IP multicast query issued by the distributing access point (network devices such as routers can block multicast messages)

•Have their web servers enabled for external browsing (see the “Entering Web Server Settings and Setting Up Access Point Help” section on page 7-7).

•Have the same HTTP port setting as the distributing access point (the HTTP port setting is on the Web Server Setup page)

•Have a Default Gateway setting other than the default setting, which is 255.255.255.255 (the Default Gateway setting is on the Express Setup and Routing Setup pages)

•If they have User Manager enabled, contain in their User Lists a user with the same user name, password, and capabilities as the user performing the distribution (the person logged in on the distributing access point)

Follow the steps in the “Limiting Distributions” section on page 10-10to limit the firmware distribution to certain access points.

Figure 10-7 Distribute Firmware Page

Follow this link path in the browser interface to reach the Distribute Firmware page:

1.On the Summary Status page, click Setup.

2.On the Setup page, click Cisco Services Setup.

3.On the Cisco Services page, click Distribute Firmware to other Cisco Devices. Follow these steps to distribute firmware to other access points:

Step 1 Follow the link path to reach the Distribute Firmware page.

Step 2 To distribute all three firmware components at once, verify that yes is selected for Distribute All Firmware. This is the default setup for the Distribute Firmware page.

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