Chapter 28 Device Firmware Maintenance

"This feature is not available when you are upgrading a group’s firmware.

6If you want to wait a short time before performing the firmware upgrade, enter the number of seconds to wait in the Delay Seconds field.

7Click Apply to start the firmware upgrade process. Click Reset to start configuring this screen again.

If the device(s) is on the network, Vantage Access sends the firmware file to the device(s) immediately.

If the device(s) is off the network, Vantage Access saves the firmware upgrade request. Once the device(s) is available, the request is immediately carried out.

You can view a list of manual firmware requests in the Device Firmware > Upgrade List screen.

28.3.2 Scheduled Firmware Upgrade

Follow the steps below to manually upgrade firmware to one or more devices through Vantage Access.

1Log into Vantage Access using a manager account and click the File Manager icon in the control panel.

2Select a device in the Device List window. To upgrade firmware on a group of devices, select a device group folder in the Topology panel.

3Click Device Firmware > Upgrade to display the configuration screen (see Figure 496 on page 510).

4In Select Firmware, select a firmware file that you want to update to the device(s). Refer to Table 300 on page 508 for field descriptions.

5Select Enable Scheduled to configure a schedule for the firmware upgrade.

6In the Date field, specify the date on which the upgrade is to take place. Enter the date in

the format yyy-mm-dd. Alternatively, click the calendar icon ( ) to pick a date from the calendar.

7In the Time field, specify the time at which the upgrade is to take place. Enter the time in the format hh:mm:ss.

8Click Apply to save the settings or click Reset to start configuring this screen again. You can view a list of scheduled firmware upgrade settings in the Upgrade List screen.

28.4Firmware Upgrade Request Lists

After you have set the Firmware Upgrade screen, you can view the list of manual or scheduled firmware upgrade requests in the Upgrade List screen.

28.4.1 Upgrade List

You can see the list of configured firmware upgrades in the Upgrade List screen.

 

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