RapidConnect Desktop gives users the ability to upload upgrade the MMB firmware images onto connect devices, e.g(eg. RapidHA, RapidConnect 2) on serially connected devices.
Firmware images (in MBL format) can be found on the firmware flavour home -pages or users can request images from their MMBNetworks contact. pages. If you are using a custom build of RapidConnect, contact your Account Manager for the MBL file.
Upload
To upload a firmware image, open a new instance of the RapidConnect Desktop.
Click on the 'Firmware Upload' button from the start screen(Figure 1).
Figure 1: Start Screen
Select the module
formfrom the 'Available Modules' list (1) to upload new firmware.
Once a module is selected its properties will be displayed in the 'Module Properties' window(Figure 2). These properties will
tell usersshow the current firmware version loaded on the device.
Click 'Select File'(shown in Figure 2) to browse for the new firmware image file.
Figure 2: Firmware Upload Window
Select the MMB firmware image to upload and click the 'Select' button(Figure 3).
Figure 3: File Selection Window
After selecting a firmware image, the file
selectselection window will close and the
user will be brought back to thefirmware upload window will be displayed.
Click the 'Upload' button to start the firmware upload(Figure 4).
Figure 4: Upload Firmware File
Firmware upload will begin and
users should seethe following window will be displayed (Figure 5).
Figure 5: Upload Status
When upload has
complete users should seefinished, a status of 'Success'
should be shown (Figure 6).
Figure 6: Upload Success
