‘Firmware Upgrade’ is used to upgrade firmware for a specific type of iPECS devices of selected systems at a designated time. To perform a Firmware upgrade:
From the System Management menu, click on the [Firmware Upgrade] tab.
Click on the [Browse…] button to select a firmware file to use for upgrading device firmware, then the file name will be displayed in the ‘Firmware File’ field and ‘Module Type’ field will
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display the type of the device that can be upgraded using the selected firmware file.
When the [Get System Info] button is clicked, the systems to which the upgradable devices are registered will be listed in the ‘System List’ table. The upgradable modules that are registered to a specific system will be listed in ‘Target Modules’ when clicking on the system item in the ‘System List’.
NOTE--Target Modules does not display MFIM item when upgrading the firmware of MFIM. ‘System List’ and ‘Target Modules’ tables display detailed information of the systems and target devices on the table fields. The types and meanings of the table fields are as listed in the following table.
Table Name Field Name Description
System Name The name of the system configured when registering to iPECS NMS.
IP Address
The IP address of MFIM that is the main call processing module of iPECS system.
Firmware Version The firmware version of MFIM.
Status
The connection (communication) status between iPECS-NMS and iPECS system (MFIM).
System List
No. of Modules
The number of devices that can be upgraded with the selected firmware file.
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Table Name Field Name Description
Upgrade Status
Upgrade Status shows the process status of firmware upgrade of the system, and includes the status values of ‘Connecting FTP’, ‘Transferring by FTP’, ‘Transferring by HTTP’, ‘Upgrade MFIM’, ‘Upgrading Device’, ‘Finished’, and ‘Failed’.
In normal cases, the status will display ‘Connecting FTP’ when the firmware upgrade is started, and the FTP connection is made between NMS server and MFIM. After the FTP connection is established, the status changes to ‘Transferring by FTP’ and the firmware file is transferred from NMS server to MFIM. After the file transfer is completed, the status becomes ‘Upgrading MFIM’ or ‘Upgrading Device’ and performs the firmware upgrade for MFIM or target devices. When firmware upgrade is finished, the displays as ‘Finished’ status.
NOTE-‘Transferring by HTTP’ status may be shown when firmware upgrade is being performed by Web Admin.
Upgrade Time When the firmware upgrade for the system is finished.
Dev. No.
(Device Number) is the device sequence number of the device on iPECS Web Admin.; a unique number is assigned to each registered device. Device Type The name of the device
IP Address The IP address of the device
Firmware Version The firmware (software) version of the device
Location Mode
Location of the device that was configured when the device was registered on system (Local, Remote, Local-Remote, and Remote RSGM).
Device Status
Device Status shows the operation and registration status of the device (Disconnect, Active, T-Net, Downloading, Out-of Service and N/A). Target Modules
Upgrade Status
Upgrade Status shows the process status of firmware upgrade of the device (Ready, Started, Transferring, Transfer Completed, Success, and Failed.
In normal cases, the status of all the target devices will display ‘Ready’ when the firmware upgrade for the system is started. After the firmware upgrade is started for each device, the firmware file is transferred to the device under ‘Transferring’ status. After the firmware transfer is completed, the status changes to ‘Transfer Completed’, and then becomes ‘Success’ when the firmware upgrade is finished.
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To select target systems to upgrade, click the check-box of each system. The ‘Estimated Time’ field will be updated and will show the estimated time for the overall firmware upgrade
procedure on all the selected systems. Estimated time is calculated based on the number of systems and target devices, so it may be somewhat different from the actual upgrade time. Because a system can be configured for one firmware upgrade at a time, only the systems that are not already scheduled for other firmware upgrade can be selected in ‘System List’.
In order to schedule a firmware upgrade at a specific date and time, configure the target date and time for firmware upgrade in ‘Date/Time’ field, and then click on the [Execute] button. The firmware upgrade will be automatically started at the designated date and time for the selected systems. If the ‘Date/Time’ field is configured with the current date/time or a past date/time, the firmware upgrade will immediately start after clicking on the [Execute] button.
If the [Cancel] button is clicked while the firmware upgrade is in process for multiple systems, the schedules for waiting systems can only be canceled, and the systems that are performing firmware upgrade at the moment proceed the firmware upgrade to the end and finish their upgrade procedure.
The ‘Status’ field shows the overall process status of the firmware upgrade for all the selected systems (Transferring to NMS, Scheduled, Upgrading, and Finished).
‘Transferring to NMS’ designates the status of the transferring firmware file from the NMS client browser to NMS server; this is performed immediately after clicking on the [Execute] button. After firmware file transfer to NMS server is completed, the ‘Status’ will change to ‘Scheduled’ if
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the ‘Date/Time’ field is configured with future date and time, or will change to ‘Upgrading’ if the firmware upgrade is started after the current time has exceeded the date and time configured in the ‘Date/Time’ field. When the firmware upgrade for all selected systems is finished, the ‘Status’ field will display ‘Finished’ to show that the overall firmware upgrade procedure is finished.