U P D A T I N G S O F T W A R E – S T E P 3Serial ConnectionPrerequisites - make sure the directory and the file name of the MNS-6K software imagedownloaded in steps 1 and 2 is known. To use the serial connection to update the MNS-6Kimage, the command dialog is shown below:Magnum6K25# show versionMNS-6K-Secure Ver: 14.1 Date:Jul 28 2008 Time:07:51:45 Build ID 1217245902Magnum6K25# upgrade mode=serialDo you wish to upgrade the image? [ 'Y' or 'N'] YFIGURE 167 – Upgrade using serial connectionOnce the upgrade process is started, the VT100 emulation software (e.g.HyperTerminal) will ask for the file location. Once the file location is indicated, the filetransfer begins. Make sure the Xmodem protocol is also selected in this file locationdialog window. Once selected, the file transfer begins. The file transfer status windowis shown in Figure below. Note – Xmodem has to be set to set to send the file.FIGURE 168 – File upload status window under Xmodem (using HyperTerminal under WindowsXP)Once the transfer is complete, the dialog is shown in Figure 15.349
