HP Networking TopTool Products HP Download Manager, Obtaining New Software from HP, Device types

Downloading Software

The HP Download Manager

The HP Download Manager

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Use the HP Download Manager for all devices not supported by the Software Update Utility.

Obtaining New Software from HP

There are three sources you can access for new software:

■The latest HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches CD-ROM

■The World Wide Web, at HP’s Procurve web site. The URL is: http://www.hp.com/go/hpprocurve

■Your HP Customer Care Center or other authorized HP representative

Before you begin downloading, make sure your new software is accessible to your network. The most typical way is simply to place the HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches CD-ROM into the CD drive of the network management station on which HP TopTools is loaded. If you got the software files from the World Wide Web or HP Customer Care Center, copy the files to the hard drive of the computer running HP TopTools. Place all the files in this directory:

c:\Program files\Hptt\hpwnd\dld

This assumes you are using the directories automatically set up during the HP TopTools installation. If you have changed “TopTools” to something else, change this pathname accordingly.

The Download Manager shows you which versions of software are currently on your devices, compares that information with the latest available software, and helps you download it onto as many devices as you wish.

If the files are self-extracting, run the file as a program to extract the files. For example, if you retrieved the file j4110510.exe, put the file in the above subdirectory. Now run the program by typing j4110510.exe at a DOS prompt. The program will extract the files c_05_10.swi, readc510.txt, and relnotes.txt from itself. In this case the firmware file for the device is c_05_10.swi.

To use the Download Manager, you must first select the devices that will receive the software, as follows:

1.On the HP TopTools button bar, click the Devices button and then select

Device types.

2.Under “Devices by Type” select Networking Devices. Highlight the device(s) you want to update. The devices you select must be all of the same type, i.e., all hubs or all switches.

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