Owners Manual

Deploying Firmware | Configuration Management
476 OMNM 6.5.2 User Guide
Deploying Firmware
Deploy a device firmware image as follows.
1 Complete these steps if your image is larger than 500MB. Otherwise, go to step 2.
a. Copy the large firmware image file to file server file directory.
b. Ceate a file less that 10 bytes with the same name as firmware image file.
c. Use OMNM to create a firmware image where the file created in step b is uploaded.
2 Make sure that an FTP or TFTP server is configured.
See
File Servers on page 468.
3 Navigate to the Managed Resources portlet.
4 Right-click the devices and then select File Management > Deploy.
The Deploy Firmware window information based on the selected device.
5 Select the firmware image you want to deploy.
The fields are populated based on your selection.
6 Select a transfer protocol.
7 Modify the targets as needed, such as deleting a target, adding equipment, or adding groups.
What you can do is restricted to devices that match the deploy file’s type.
CAUTION:
You can also select devices, then change the OS selection so a potential mismatch may occur. This may
trigger deployment rejection by the device, but is not a recommended experiment.
8 Specify any device options available to fine-tune the deployment.
The options available are vendor-specific.
9 Execute the backup now. Otherwise, continue with step 10.
The Results panel displays the message traffic between the OMNM application and the
devices. See
Audit Trail Portlet on page 154.
10 Schedule the deployment for a later time.
11 Click Save to preserve this scheduled configuration.