Patton electronic 4900 Start-up with factory configuration, Step, Command, Purpose, optional

SmartNode 4900 User Manual4 • Getting started with the SmartNode 4900 Series

Start-up with factory configuration

Step	Command	Purpose
1	RedBoot> fis load	Copies the SmartWare application image from the
		persistent memory (flash:) to the volatile memory
		(RAM) from where it will be executed.
2	RedBoot> go -s factory-config	Starts the SmartWare application telling it to use
		‘factory-config’ as startup configuration.
		You can also start-up with any other configuration
		available in the persistent memory (nvram:) by pro-
		viding its name instead of ‘factory-config’.

Load a new application image (SmartWare) via TFTP

The following procedure downloads the application image (SmartWare) for the mainboard. See the note below on how to download the respective CLI description file.

Step	Command	Purpose
1	RedBoot> ip_address - l	Sets the IP address and subnet mask of the
optional	local_ip_address [/mask_len]	Ethernet interface 0/0 which shall be used to
		receive the new application image.
		mask_len is the length of the network address
		(or the number of 1’s within the subnet mask).
		See Note below.
2	RedBoot> ip_address -g gateway	Sets the IP address of the default gateway.
optional
3	RedBoot> ping -htftp-server_ip_address	Tests the connectivity to the TFTP server.
optional
4	RedBoot> load -r -v -h host -b	Downloads an application image into the vola-
	base_address file_name	tile memory (RAM) from where the SmartNode
		could directly execute it.
		host: IP address of the TFTP server
		base_address: memory location where to store
		the application image. Use the default address
		0x1800100
		file_name: path and name of the file on the
		TFTP server. Note: use the image file that con-
		tains the whole application, not the image
		parts.
5	RedBoot> fis delete -n 1	Deletes the first application image.
		Reply with ‘y’ to the confirmation request.
6	RedBoot> fis create	Stores the downloaded application image to
		the permanent memory (flash:).
		Reply with ‘y’ to the confirmation request.
7	RedBoot> fis list -l	Checks whether the image has been success-
		fully stored, whether it is the desired Release
		and Build, and whether it is valid.

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