User manual
Table Of Contents
- NMS300 Network Management System Application
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Started
- 3 Discover and Manage Resources
- Discovery concepts
- Use quick discovery to discover devices on your network
- Use a discovery profile to discover devices on your network
- View and manage the wired and wireless devices on your network
- View device information
- View wireless device information only
- Modify the name, location information, and contact information
- Remove device information
- Synchronize a network device
- Log in to a device
- Ping, perform a traceroute, or reboot a device
- Use the SNMP MIB browser
- View and export the Inventory table and Interface List table
- Manage device groups
- Search for the switch to which a host is connected
- 4 Monitor Devices and the Network
- Monitor the network
- Monitor the top 10 widgets for all devices
- Customize the top 10 page
- View the wireless summary and monitor the top 10 widgets for wireless devices
- View device details and interface details
- Monitor wireless clients and view client details
- Manage the configuration monitors
- Customize the optional network dashboard
- View and export audit logs
- View firmware version information
- View the NMS300 server information
- View application notifications
- 5 Manage Configurations and Firmware
- 6 Manage Alarms and Logs
- 7 Manage Maps and Topologies
- 8 Manage sFlow
- 9 Generate and View Reports
- 10 Manage Jobs
- 11 Manage Users and Security Profiles
- 12 Manage Global Settings and Backups
- 13 Manage Licenses
- 14 Register Devices
- A Technical Specifications
- B Device Details
- 1 Index
NMS300 Network Management System Application
Manage Configurations and Firmware User Manual163
Upgrade firmware for one or more devices
NETGEAR posts the latest firmware for each NETGEAR device on netgear.com/support/.
We recommend that you visit this site regularly to see if new firmware is available.
CAUTION:
When you update the firmware of a device, you must provide the correct
firmware file. Make sure that you select both the correct device type and
correct device model for the firmware file that you upload to the
application. If you provide the wrong firmware file, the application pushes
out the incorrect firmware file while it executes the firmware upgrade and
you can damage the device.
CAUTION:
When you update the firmware of stacked switches, make sure that all of
the switches in the stack support the firmware that you select to update on
the stack master.
The following sections describe the tasks that are related to firmware upgrades:
•
Import a firmware file
• Execute or schedule a firmware upgrade
• Modify the file name, version information, and description for a firmware file
• Export a firmware file
• Remove a firmware file
Import a firmware file
After you download device firmware (an image) from the NETGEAR website at
netgear.com/support/ to your computer, you can load the firmware file onto the NMS300
server.
If you want to use an MD5 file for error checking during the import process, first use an MD5
tool to generate an MD5 file that is based on the firmware file that you want to import.
To load a firmware file onto the NMS300 server:
1. Open a browser and connect to the application through the static IP address of the
NMS300 server
.
For more information, see
Log in to the application on page 21.
A login window opens.