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Upgrades

Purpose

This chapter provides procedures for upgrading your system to ICB Release 4 from previous releases and for upgrading sub-issues of ICB Release 4. The chapter contains the following sections:

“Overview” on page 211 – introduces the ICB upgrade strategy.

“Planning for an upgrade” on page 214 – provides information to help prepare for an upgrade.

“Upgrade procedures” on page 215 – provides system upgrade procedures.

Overview

The ICB Release 4 can be upgraded from MICB Release 2 and MICB Release 3, but not from MICB Release 1. A new board and a new flash card are provided when upgrading. The vintage BC and flash card are replaced in upgrading. The dongle remains. Upgrades cannot be completed over the web. A new keycode is required when upgrading. Table 56 shows the upgrade paths regarding the conversion of hardware and customer data.

Table 56

ICB upgrade paths

From ...

 

 

To ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Firmware

 

Card

Firmware

Card

Data conversion

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICB Release 1

 

NT5D51AA

ICB Release 4

NT5D51BC

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICB Release 1

 

NT5D51AB

ICB Release 4

NT5D51BC

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICB Release 2

 

NT5D51AB

ICB Release 4

NT5D51BC

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICB Release 2

 

NT5D51AB

ICB Release 4

NT5D51BC

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

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