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Before the pause at remote side elapses, click Mute ODU on local side for a specified period of
time (example 150 seconds) and wait for the analyze to finish. After that, the units should
interconnect again and the management of remote unit will be possible again. Finally, check the
frequency analyze at remote side.
!! Note !! Spectrum analysis for licensed bands last approximately for 150 seconds.
During this time, no data passes through the link.
Firmware Upgrade, License Upgrade
!! Note !! An ADMIN user alone can upgrade the firmware and the license.
For every firmware release, it is not necessary to update all the parts, but only the ones which
require an upgrade.
Basic Firmware Parts:
hwbase.afw – Software for internal hardware parts
oskernel.afw – Operating system
dev.afw – Drivers for the Operating System
fwbase.afwApplication software (WEB, SNMP, commands and so on)
Additional Firmware Parts:
patch001.afwPatch for enhancing the maximum length of the uploaded file. Applicable
for firmware upgrades from versions 0208_02 onwards.
checkversions.afw – Compares the firmware version with the newest version and prints
the info that is necessary to upload.
fw_all.afw Compares the current version of firmware with the newest version and
automatically uploads the different parts (used only from firmware 0208_02 or package
patch001.afw).
Recommended Steps for Firmware Upgrade:
1. Log on to the web browser with ADMIN rights.
2. Click COMMIT (available on the top-right corner of each page) to save the current
configurations. Alternatively, you can save the configured parameters by navigating to
main menu Maintenance and sub-menu Write , and click Write_WO”. By doing so,
the configurations are stored in the start-up memory.
3. Compare currently running versions of each firmware parts (oskernel.afw, dev.afw,
hwbase.afw and fwbase.afw) with the newest version by following one of the two below
steps:
Manually compare data shown in main menu General and sub-menu
Revision” with the file version.txt.
Navigate to main menu Maintenance” and sub-menu FW Upgrade”, and
select the file checkversions.afw. Take a print-out and check the parts that
need to be upgraded.
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