How Can I Monitor A Firmware Upgrade On An Evolution Product Using FTP?

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When using FTP to upgrade your Evolution product you can monitor the progress of the upgrade from the command line interface using telnet.

The method to monitor the progress of the firmware upload into the Evolution product.

1. Open a command Prompt. E.g. choose Run from the Start menu, type cmd and press Enter.
2. Type telnet <xxx . xxx . xxx . xxx> (use the ip address of your Evolution product)
3. At the CLI type >enable
4. Then, at the CLI type >device
5. Then, at the CLI type >auto show upload

You will see: Wait
You will see: Copy xxxxx (file size in bytes)
You will see: a pause for 30-45 seconds while the file is loading
You will see: Verify (%) (increments)
You will see: Erase (%) (increments)
You will see: Program (%) (increments)
You will see: Reboot (Wait for the Evolution device to complete the reboot, telnet session ends)

When you perform the upload using the FTP method below you will see the progress of the firmware upload as shown above.

The method for using Windows command line ftp to upload firmware into an Evolution product.

1. Open a command Prompt. E.g. choose Run from the Start menu, type cmd and press Enter.
2. Change to the directory that contains the firmware files for your Evolution product
3. Type ftp –i xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the Evolution product.
4. when prompted for user, type admin <---Default username
5. when prompted for password, type PASS <--- Default admin password
6. At the ftp> prompt type bin

You will recieve a "200 command okay"

7. At the ftp> prompt type put devicename.romz (This name will be the .romz file of the device)

**Special Note: older firmware file extensions include .rom.gz

You will recieve:

200 command okay

Followed after a few minutes by:

150 System file ready for download

Followed after a few minutes by:

226 Reprogramming firmware. Do not power off! Will reboot automatically.

and finally:

Connection closed by remote host

8. Type the command below to exit from ftp:

ftp> bye

** Wait a few minutes for the unit to uncompress and install the new firmware and reboot.

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[Originally Published On: 10/08/2007 06:22 AM]