Tripp Lite B050-000 - Manual (Page 95)

Chapter 6. Menu Options
You may use the text buttons “Prev” and “Next” to browse within the data. The
button “Prev” displays the previous page with newer log information whereas the
button “Next” switches to the following page with older log information.
Update Firmware
Figure 6-39. Update Firmware
The B050-000 is a complete standalone computer. The software it runs is called the
firmware. The firmware of the B050-000 can be updated remotely in order to install
new functionality or special features.
A new firmware update is a binary file which will be sent to you by email . If the
firmware file is a compressed file with suffix
.zip you have to unzip it before
you can proceed. In order to extract the archive you may use WinZip from
http://www.winzip.com/ (for Windows OS) or a tool named unzip that might be
already provided in your OS (UNIX, Linux, OS X).
Before you can start updating the firmware of your B050-000 the new and uncom-
pressed firmware file has to be accessible on the system that you use for connecting
to the B050-000.
Updating the firmware is a three-stage process:
• Firstly, the new firmware file is uploaded onto the B050-000. In order to do that you
need to select the file on your local system using the button “Browse” of the Up-
load Firmware panel (see Figure 6-39). Then, click “Upload” to transfer the previ-
ously selected file from your local file system onto the B050-000. Once the firmware
file has been uploaded, it is checked whether it is a valid firmware file and whether
there were any transmission errors. In case of any error the Upload Firmware func-
tion will be aborted and the current firmware is kept as is.
• Secondly, if everything went well, you see the Update Firmware panel . The panel
shows you the version number of the currently running firmware and the version
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