User guide

Canopy System User Guide
pmp-0229 (Mar 2013)
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Chapter 26: Using the Canopy Network
Updater Tool (CNUT)
The Canopy Network Updater Tool (CNUT) manages and automates the software and firmware
upgrade process for a Canopy radio, CMMmicro, or CMM4 (but not its 14-port switch) across the
network. This eliminates the need for an administrator to visit each radio in the network (or each
AP while using the Autoupdate feature) to upgrade the modules.
CNUT Functions
The Canopy Network Updater Tool
• automatically discovers all network elements
• executes a UDP command that initiates and terminates the Autoupdate mode within APs. This
command is both secure and convenient:
o For security, the AP accepts this command from only the IP address that you specify in
the Configuration page of the AP.
o For convenience, Network Updater automatically sets this Configuration parameter in the
APs to the IP address of the Network Updater server when the server performs any of the
update commands.
• allows you to choose among updating
o your entire network.
o only elements that you select.
o only network branches that you select.
• provides a Script Engine that you can use with any script that
o you define.
o Cambium supplies.
Network Element Groups
With the Canopy Network Updater Tool, you can identify element groups composed of network
elements that you select. Identifying these element groups
• organizes the display of elements (for example, by region or by AP cluster).
• allows you to
o perform an operation on all elements in the group simultaneously.