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91UPS Network Management Card 2 User’s Guide
To extract the firmware files:
1. Run the NMC2 Firmware Upgrade Utility.
2. At the prompts, click Next>, and then specify the directory location to which the files will be
extracted.
3. When the Extraction Complete message displays, close the dialog box.
Firmware File Transfer Methods
To upgrade the firmware of a Management Card, use one of these methods:
• From a networked computer running a Microsoft Windows operating system, use the NMC2
Firmware Upgrade Utility downloaded from the APC Web site.
Note: The utility only works with a Management Card that has an IPv4 address.
• From a networked computer on any supported operating system, use FTP or SCP to transfer the
individual AOS and application firmware modules.
• For a Network Management Card that is not on your network, use XMODEM through a serial
connection to transfer the individual firmware modules from your computer to the Management
Card.
Warning: When you transfer individual firmware modules, you must transfer the
APC Operating System (AOS) module to the Management Card before you transfer
the application module.
Use FTP or SCP to upgrade one Management Card
FTP. To use FTP to upgrade one Management Card over the network:
• The Management Card must be connected to the network, and its system IP, subnet mask, and
default gateway must be configured.
• The FTP server must be enabled at the Management Card.
• The firmware files must be extracted from the NMC2 Firmware Upgrade Utility (see “To extract
the firmware files:” ).
To transfer the files:
1. At a computer on the network, open a command prompt window. Go to the directory that
contains the firmware files, and list the files:
C:\>cd apc
C:\apc>dir
For the listed files, xxx represents the firmware version number:
•
apc_hw05_aos_xxx.bin
•
apc_hw05_application_xxx.bin
2. Open an FTP client session:
C:\apc>ftp