User manual TANDBERG T128

[. . . ] USER'S GUIDE 433568-01 Copyright © 2006 Tandberg Data ASA. All trademarks within this document are the property of their respective owners. Every effort has been made to acknowledge trademarks and their owners. Trademarked names are used solely for identification or exemplary purposes: any omissions are unintentional. [. . . ] You can use the tape to transfer firmware to one or more tape drives installed in the library. This chapter explains how to use the Update Library Firmware and Drive Operations commands on the Tools menu to update firmware. Updating Library Firmware Using the Update Library Firmware command on the web client interface, you can install new library firmware. Note This operation should not be performed concurrently by multiple administrative users. You can access the screen, but you cannot apply changes while another administrative user is performing the same operation. Tandberg StorageLibrary T128 User's Guide 73 Saving the current library configuration before you update library firmware is recommended. If, in the future, you need to downgrade to a previous version of the library firmware, you will lose your configured settings, except for the date and time, license key, and network settings. You can either restore the other configurable items using a configuration file that was saved when the earlier version of library firmware was installed on the library, or you can reconfigure your library's settings. For more information, see About Saving and Restoring the Configuration on page 155. It is also a good idea to capture a snapshot of current logged information before making any significant change to your system such as upgrading library firmware. Service personnel can, if necessary, use the snapshot file to troubleshoot the library. For more information, see Capturing Snapshots of Library Information on page 155. Update the library firmware using the following steps: 1 2 Before downloading firmware, save the library configuration and capture a library snapshot. For more information on these two operations, see Troubleshooting on page 153. Access the Tandberg Data Support website at http://www. tandberg. com and download the firmware file to your personal computer. On the Tandberg Data Support website, navigate to your product's firmware. Select the appropriate firmware version and download the file to your computer hard drive. 3 4 5 6 From the web client, select Tools > Update Library Firmware. Locate the firmware file that you have downloaded and click Open. A dialog box appears informing you that the library will reboot to update the library firmware. 7 Click OK to continue with the library firmware update operation. After you download the library firmware, the update program puts the firmware package in a predetermined location in the file structure. During the firmware update process, the various parts of the firmware package are distributed to the proper library components. The updated firmware components are also tracked. After the update process starts, you must wait until it completes. [. . . ] Similar in function to SAM, except SNMP governs LAN, whereas SAM governs SAN. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) A protocol that provides encrypted communications on the Internet. SSL is layered beneath application protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, Telnet, FTP, Gopher, and NNTP and is layered above the connection protocol TCP/IP. Storage device An appliance containing data that can be accessed, added to, changed, or deleted by the user. [. . . ]