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UPS Network Management Card 2 User’s Guide90
File Transfers
How to Upgrade Firmware
Benefits of upgrading firmware
When you upgrade the firmware on the Network Management Card:
• You obtain the latest bug fixes and performance improvements.
• New features become available for immediate use.
Keeping the firmware versions consistent across your network ensures that all Management Cards
support the same features in the same manner.
Firmware files (Network Management Card)
A firmware version consists of three modules: An APC Operating System (AOS) module, an application
module, and a boot monitor (bootmon) module. Each module contains one or more Cyclical Redundancy
Checks (CRCs) to protect its data from corruption during transfer.
The APC Operating System (AOS), application, and boot monitor module files used with the
Management Card share the same basic format:
apc_hardware-version_type_firmware-version.bin
• apc: Indicates that this is an APC file.
•
hardware-version: hw0x identifies the version of the hardware on which you can use this
binary file.
•
type: Identifies whether the file is the APC Operating System (AOS) module, the application
module, or the boot monitor module for the Management Card.
•
version: The version number of the file.
•
bin: Indicates that this is a binary file.
Obtain the latest firmware version
Note: In a manual upgrade, you can skip the bootmon installation if there are no updates.
With the NMC2 Firmware Upgrade Utility, any bootmon update is automatic.
NMC2 Firmware Upgrade Utility for Microsoft Windows systems. The NMC2 Firmware Upgrade
Utility automates the transferring of the firmware modules on any supported Windows operating system.
Obtain the latest version of the utility at no cost from www.apcc.com/tools/download. At this Web
page, find the latest firmware release for your APC product and, included in it, the automated utility.
Never use a utility designated for one APC product to upgrade the firmware of another APC product.
Manual upgrades, primarily for Linux systems. If no computer on your network is running a
Microsoft Windows operating system, you must upgrade the firmware of your Management Cards by
using the separate AOS and application firmware modules.
Note: In manual upgrades, load the boot monitor module first, then the APC operating
system module, and finally, the application module.