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101User Guide InfraStruxure 150kVA Power Distribution Unit

File Transfers

Upgrading Firmware

Benefits of upgrading firmware

When you upgrade the firmware on the PDU:

• You obtain the latest bug fixes and performance improvements.

• New features become available for immediate use.

Keeping the firmware versions consistent across your network ensures that all PDUs support the same

features in the same manner.

Firmware files (PDU)

A firmware version consists of two modules: An APC Operating System (AOS) module and an

application module. Each module contains one or more Cyclical Redundancy Checks (CRCs) to protect

its data from corruption during transfer.

The APC Operating System (AOS) and application module files used with the PDU share the same basic

format:

apc_hardware-version_type_firmware-version.bin

• apc: Indicates that this is an APC file.

• hardware-version:

hw0x identifies the version of the hardware on which you can use this

binary file.

• type: Identifies whether the file is for the APC Operating System (AOS) or the application

module for the PDU.

• version: The version number of the file.

•

bin: Indicates that this is a binary file.

Obtain the latest firmware version

Automated upgrade tool for Microsoft Windows systems. An upgrade tool automates the

transferring of the firmware modules on any supported Windows operating system. Obtain the latest

version of the tool at no cost from www.apc.com/tools/download. At this Web page, find the latest

firmware release for your APC product and download the automated tool. Never use the tool for one

APC product to upgrade firmware of another.

Manual upgrades, primarily for Linux systems. If no computer on your network is running a

Microsoft Windows operating system, you must upgrade the firmware of your PDUs by using the

separate AOS and application firmware modules.

Obtain the individual firmware modules by downloading the automated tool from www.apcc.com/tools/

download, then extracting the firmware files from the tool.

To extract the firmware files:

1. Run the tool.

2. At the prompts, click Next>, and then specify the directory location to which the files will be

extracted.

3. When the Extraction Complete message displays, close the dialog box.

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