Specifications

24 Rack Access PX-HID Installation
Upgrading Firmware
Automated upgrade tool for Microsoft
Windows systems
An automated, self-extracting executable tool
combines the firmware modules that you need to
automate your upgrades on any supported
Windows operating system.
You can obtain the current version of the tool at no
cost from the support section of the APC Web site,
www.apc.com/tools/download. At this Web page,
find the latest firmware release for your APC
product and download the automated tool, not the
individual firmware modules.
Manual upgrades, primarily for Linux systems
If all computers on your network are running
Linux, you must upgrade the firmware of your
Rack Access PX-HID manually; that is, you must
use the separate APC firmware modules (AOS
module and application module). You can obtain
the individual firmware modules you need for a
manual firmware upgrade from the support section
of the APC Web site, www.apc.com/tools/
download.
Each upgrade tool is specific to an
APC product type. When you use the
version of the tool from the APC Web
site, make sure that you use the
upgrade tool that corresponds with
your APC product type.
If you have a networked computer
running a supported Microsoft
Windows operating system on your
network, you can use the tool
described in “Automated upgrade tool
for Microsoft Windows systems” on
this page to upgrade the firmware of a
Rack Access PX-HID automatically
over the network. This tool automates
the entire upgrade process.
See “Firmware file transfer methods”
on page 25 to complete your manual
upgrade.