Scheduled Firmware Upgrade

What is Schedule Firmware Upgrade?

This Function is designed for centralize management for firmware upgrade. If you have lots of G-4100 devices in different locations. You can use this function to upload the latest firmware to all the devices. Please take reference in the topology below.

How do I upload firmware using Scheduled Firmware Upgrade?

1. In the Web GUI > System Tools > Firmware > Scheduled Firmware Upgrade.

2. Enable the function; enter the TFTP server IP (the TFTP server can exist either in the LAN side or WAN side of G-4100. If the TFTP server in the LAN side of G-4100, it only can upload the firmware for one G-4100 device.)

3. Set up the File Synchronization. Click the hyper link “View Sample File”. Copy the content of this sample file and save as a txt file in root download directory of TFTP server. For this case, we save the txt file as version.txt.

The version column here allows you to enter the latest firmware version. The function will check this value for the reference to decide uploading firmware or not. (For example, if the firmware version in device is b8, the function will compare the firmware version in the device and in the txt file, in this case, it will upload the firmware.)

4. Fill the Frequency column, and then apply the setting.