UPGRADING ARCTIC CONTROL`S FIRMWARE
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1. 5 INSTRUCTIONS 5 3 1 FIRMWARE IMAGE ELE 3 2 CONNECTING THE EQUIPMENT 3 3 BACKING UP THE EXISTING CONFIGURATION OPTIONAL sssssssssssssssscscceecececscsescssssscssacsesesesesesesacaesssssssasasacacsesesesesesecaeaessscsasacacseseaeees 5 3 4 SETTING UP THE COMPUTER S TERMINAL EMULATION CONNECTION sssscsssscscecscssssssscscsacacscseseseseseeecaesesssssasasasacsssesesesececaeaessscuasasaceeeseeses 6 3 4 1 Configuring the environment ettet ae a ARE e ei ee aa Re da Do Rear Peau bea aae Rae oH 6 3 4 2 Changing the Arctic Control s IP address if needed seis 8 3 5 CONFIGURING THE TFTP SERVER m A eR Re pe eee deve ete d ede eed e dee Re edge ees 9 3 6 PRESERVING THE CALIBRATION DATA REM 3 6 1 Method 12 RE 3 6 2 Method 2 Manual backup uie eter rete sde Eed acean en v 3 7 PERFORMING THE Te 3 7 1 Filesystem image upgrade 3 8 THE GENERATION OF SSH KEYS 3 9 RESTORING THE CONFIGURATION PROFILE 3 10 RESTORING THE CALIBRATION e E NE e cover ube Pe gr ee ee eR Ee RE ere c 3 10 1 Method 1 Using FTP transfer 3 10 2 Method 2 Using Wet EE 3 11 FINALIZING THEUPGRADE setin er maan e Ee RIA eet2. K VEL VTL 3 14 1 1 Purpose This document provides instructions on how to upgrade the Arctic Control s firmware Note Don t begin upgrading a firmware without first verifying the procedure and file versions from Viola Systems Ltd Technical Support abbreviated later in this document as Technical Support 1 2 Summary This document is written only for product Arctic Control Viola System s product code 2320 and is universal for all Arctic Control firmware versions The firmware upgrade is done locally not over the air The upgrade procedure is similar to upgrading any 2G Arctic s firmware refer to the Application note VA 09 5 2 Upgrading the Arctic firmware for reference however there are certain additional tasks needed in the upgrade process ensuring the transfer of Arctic Control s calibration data into the new firmware s filesystem Hence this document must be used when upgrading Arctic Control s firmware The upgrade consists of three high level procedures 1 Preserving the calibration data 2 File system image upgrade 3 Re applying the calibration data Note The SSH key of Arctic Control will be changed because of the upgrade If the SSH VPN is used by Arctic Control for establishing a tunnel to M2M Gateway you will need to update the Arctic Control s SSH key in 2 Gateway as well Refer to M2M Gateway User s Manual for details 1 3 Target audience Th
3. 0 0 serverip 10 10 10 11 stdin serial stdout serial stderr serial Environment size 342 4092 bytes Disabling watchdog arctic gt setenv ipaddr 10 10 10 10 arctic gt setenv netmask 255 0 0 0 arctic gt setenv gatewayip 10 0 0 1 arctic gt saveenv Saving Enviroment to EEPROM H D taidat PPCBoot 1 1 6 Apr 14 2005 18 44 18 Viola Systems Arctic Board CPU MOTOROLA Coldfire MCF5272 Board Viola Systems Oy Arctic Board http www violasystems com DRAM 32 MB FLASH 8 MB In serial Out serial Err serial N H 8 14 arctic boot 3 5 Configuring the TFTP server 1 You will need a TFTP server which can be downloaded e g from the following link http tftpd32 jounin net 2 Download and install it to your computer before proceeding 3 Change first the IP address of your computer to 10 0 0 1 netmask 255 0 0 0 and default gateway 10 10 10 10 In Windows XP command ipconfig 11 can be used to check the settings in Windows command line The following instructions provide details on how to change the IP address in Windows XP In case of other operating system follow the OS specific instructions and use suitable TFTP server 1 Click start button of Windows XP 2 Click Settings gt Control Panel The Control Panel in Windows XP looks like one of the following 3 H Pick a category im ir iy ire felis letiod
4. is available if Viola M2M Gateway is used in the system Certain third party programs may be needed like Telnet serial terminal program text editor TFTP server FTP server and Web server There are links for suitable open source programs in this document Note Upgrading the firmware will erase the Arctic Control s configuration Make notes of existing configuration or use Arctic Control s Menu for backing up the existing configuration profile 3 1 Firmware image file Usually the image file is delivered by Technical Support with MD5 checksum Checksum can be compared in the computer before transferred to Arctic Control in order to verify the integrity of the file 3 2 Connecting the equipment 1 Verify that the power switch of Arctic Control is in OFF position Note If the AC power cord is connected the device still has live AC voltage in AC connector and inside the device Connect the serial crossover cable to Arctic Control and other end to your computer native serial port preferred Refer to Arctic Control s user s manual for pinout Connect an Ethernet crossover cable between the Ethernet interface of the Arctic Control and the Ethernet interface of your computer Check that the Serial port 1 in Arctic Control is set to Console mode by the Console RS1 switch in Arctic Control s front panel Power on the Arctic Control 3 3 Backing up the existing configuration optional The configu
5. 6 Verify the network settings of the Arctic Control At the arctic gt prompt type command printenv Plenty of information will appear 7 14 Pay attention to the following lines netmask 255 0 0 0 serverip 10 0 0 1 ipaddr 10 10 10 10 7 If the IP address information in step 6 is correct i e matches your Arctic configuration proceed to chapter 3 5 If not follow the instructions on next subchapter 3 4 2 Changing the Arctic Control s IP address if needed Arctic Control s network setting can be changed by changing the following parameters ipaddr IP address of Arctic Control device default is 10 10 10 10 netmask Netmask used by Arctic Control device default 255 0 0 0 gatewayip Gateway used to access hosts outside local LAN Still at the arctic gt prompt the command printenv shows the parameters with their values and command saveenv saves the values to flash memory An example printout for interrupting the boot sequence printing the configuration and changing the IP address of the Arctic Control the output may not match exactly to your product 00 06 70 02 07 4E t any key to stop autoboot 0 arctic arctic printenv baudrate 19200 loadaddr 0x20000 pm 1384004456 gatewayip 0 flashmem 8MB bootdelay 2 bootargs root dev mtdblock2 rw bootcmd bootm ff820000 hwver 3 1 hostname Arcticl prodname Arctic Control watchdog 1 conswitch 1 ethaddr 00 06 70 02 07 4 ipaddr 10 10 10 10 netmask 255 0
6. I orthe respective available COM port in your PC Speed baud 19200 Data bits 8 Stop bits 1 Parity None Flow control None In Windows HyperTerminal the respective configuration would be as in the following picture ArcticGPRSRouter HyperTerminal M nl x File Edit Transfer Help 215 9131 dal com Properties EE Port Settings second Data bits fe d Pai zl Stop bits R d Elow control zl Restore Defaults NER Disconnected auto detect Auto detect SCROLL caes NUM Capture Print echo 5 Log in as root user to Arctic Control and type reboot at the command line then right away press continuously any key e g Enter in order to interrupt the boot sequence of Arctic Control the output may not match exactly to your product See the sequence below f reboot Start pressing Enter key Restarting system y PPCBoot 1 1 6 Apr 14 2005 18 44 18 Viola Systems Arctic Board CPU MOTOROLA Coldfire MCF5272 Board Viola Systems Oy Arctic Board http www violasystems com DRAM 32 MB FLASH 8 MB In serial Out serial Err serial Net 00 06 70 01 02 03 Hit any key to stop autoboot 0 arctic arctic gt arctic gt You can stop pressing the key after you will see the arctic gt prompt If you didn t succeed to get the arctic gt prompt retry with powering off the Arctic and re doing the step 5
7. Viola Systems Ltd tel 358 0 201 226 226 Lemmink isenkatu 14 18A fax 358 0 201 226 220 FIN 20520 Turku e mail support violasystems com Finland APPLICATION NOTE VA 10 1 2 UPGRADING ARCTIC CONTROL S FIRMWARE Version history 1 1 Correction for flashing instructions 1 0 Released Date Dec 19 201 1 Version 1 1 Author LaH 2011 VIOLA SYSTEMS LTD WWW VIOLASYSTEMS COM APPLICATION NOTE Copyright and Trademarks Copyright 2009 Viola Systems Ltd All rights to this document are owned solely by Viola Systems Ltd All rights reserved No part of this document may be transmitted or reproduced in any form or by any means without a prior written permission from Viola Systems Ethernet is a trademark of Xerox Corporation Windows Windows XP and Internet Explorer are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Netscape is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation Mozilla and Firefox are registered trademarks of Mozilla Foundation Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds is a registered trademark of Cisco Systems Corporation All other product names mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners whose rights regarding the trademarks are acknowledged Disclaimer Viola Systems reserves the right to change the technical specifications or functions of its products or to discontinue the manufacture of any of its products or to discontinue the support of any of its product
8. asic options for your PuTTY session Logging Specify the destination you want to connect to 3 Terminal sa S Keyboard S TOS peed Bell COM1 119200 Features Connection type 3 Window Rlogin OSSH Serial Behaviour Load save or delete a stored session Translation Saved Sessions Selection 1 19200 Colours x Load Connection Proxy Rlogin COMS 19200 ba SH 0 a Close window on exit Neve Only clean exit 3 41 Configuring the environment 1 If you re using PUTTY proceed with clicking the Serial button and change the Speed from 9600to 19200 2 The Serial line should match the serial port where the null modem cable is connected to your computer typically itis COM1 You may wish to check which serial COM ports are in use In Windows XP go to Control panel gt System gt Hardware gt Device Manager gt Ports COM amp LPT and check which ports are available if any If you do not have serial ports at all consider using USB to serial adapter and refer to its documentation 3 Now you can click Open to open the serial connection between your computer and Arctic Control 4 If you encounter problems in connecting check the rest of the serial settings by clicking the Seria menu item from the left tab of the Putty Window The settings should be as follows 6 14 Serial line to connect to COM
9. e g PuTTY to log in to Arctic Control via Ethernet port Telnet session Log in as root user with root user s password Use an existing FTP server or install and start one in your Windows computer Note Installing an FTP server is out of the scope of this document You may consider using e g a freeware FTP server Filezilla see http filezilla project org for downloads and instructions Copy the calibration file from Arctic Control to your FTP server with the following commands cd home rtu ftp lt address of FTP server put rtu cal Verify that the file has been successfully put your FTP server and verify that the file rtu cal in your FTP server and the file in Arctic Control have identical contents You have now made a backup of the file to your FTP server Method 2 Manual backup Use e g PuTTY to log in to Arctic Control via serial port serial session or via Ethernet port Telnet session See chapter 3 4 for details Don t use Windows HyperTerminal with this method Log in as root user Type the following command for listing the content of the calibration file cat home rtu rtu cal You will now see the contents of the file in the screen Copy the content of the file to clipboard by painting it with mouse PUTTY will automatically copy the painted text to clipboard Paste the content to an editor in Windows Prefer an editor which is able to handle Linux type of line ending like Notepad freeware f
10. e target audience for this document is e Field engineers e Sales partners e Customers technical personnel 1 4 Conventions The following conventions may be used in this document e The menu items in graphical user interfaces are denoted as bolded italic font and the sequence of mouse clicks while configuring the devices in menus is separated with an arrow Example Click Tools gt System log e Theconsole or command line output is printed with courier font and user input is printed with bold courier font Example viola adm m2mgw date Tue Nov 29 13 05 00 CET 2011 e The usernames passwords and parameter value pairs are denoted with courier font e placeholders for actual values are written between lt and gt mark For example the lt P address gt would mean a place to write the actual IP address 4 14 2 Pre requisites It is assumed that the reader of this document has a basic knowledge of Linux and Windows systems IP networking serial connected devices and computers in general Arctic Control s root user s password is known Arctic Control s Hardware reference manual is available to the person making upgrade Filesystem image file is available ask from support violasystems com FTP or HTTP server is available see chapters 3 6 1 and 3 10 2 for reference A document Arctic Menu and profiles is available if configuration is backed up by using it Viola M2M Gateway s User s manual
11. er for the actual size of the file in bytes do not replace it with the size of the kernel file instead type exactly as above After the reboot the Arctic Control is upgraded but the following steps are still needed e The SSH VPN keys need to be generated manually e configuration profile needs to be restored optional e The calibration data needs to be restored 3 8 The generation of SSH keys The SSH keys can be generated by issuing the following command in Arctic Control s command line let the Arctic boot up completely and login as root user either via serial console or telnet session and execute the command below genkeys sh The key generation will take some minutes Remember to insert the new SSH key to 2 GW s SSH VPN peer configuration and to insert the M2M GW s public key to Arctic s SSH VPN configuration respectively Refer to user s guides for more information 3 9 Restoring the configuration profile If Arctic Control s configuration has been backed up by Menu option it should be restored now Refer to document Arctic Menu and profiles if the configuration has been backed up by this manner If not you can ignore this step 3 10 Restoring the calibration data As in preserving the calibration data the restoring has also two different scenarios Use either of the methods based on your preferences Do not skip the restoring of calibration data otherwise the device is not able to perform accurate measurements e Us
12. g commands cd home rtu wget http IP address of web server gt rtu cal 3 11 Finalizing the upgrade The upgrade is now done and you can proceed with configuring the Arctic Control or verifying the settings if the configuration has already been restored from a configuration profile file 14 14
13. ime progress Settings Help 9 Double check with Show Dir button that you have the proper file in place Arctic Control s filesystem image file Note The image files shown in the picture below are differing to your Arctic Control file received from Technical Support you will only need the filesystem image file jffs not the kernel file linux x W Tftpd32 directory ELIPL EN pdf 3 24 200 iffs edgerouter508 10 26 20 5839164 linux 501 10 25 20 362847 tftpd32 chm 9 15 200 370648 t tpd32 exe 9 15 200 187392 t tpd32 ini 6 24 200 530 uninstall exe 10 17 20 36835 Cancel Copy Explorer 3 6 Preserving the calibration data The Arctic Control contains analog measurements requiring calibration to give accurate results The calibrated items are Internal battery charging voltage measurement Internal battery charge discharge current measurement External general purpose voltage measurement 2 pcs External general purpose mA measurements 2 pcs The calibration file home rtu rtu cal must be preserved prior upgrading the Arctic Control s firmware There are two alternative methods for backing up and restoring the calibration file Use either of the methods based on your preferences Note Do not skip the preservation of calibration data otherwise the device must be factory re calibrated for accurate analog measurements 11 14 3 6 1 3 62 Method 1 FTP transfer Use
14. ing FTP file transfer protocol e Using wget wget is a program that retrieves content from web servers 3 10 1 Method 1 Using FTP transfer In this scenario you would have an FTP server in your local network 1 Use e g PuTTY to log in to Arctic Control via Ethernet port Telnet session 2 Loginas root user with root user s password 13 14 3 Copy the calibration file from FTP server to your Arctic Control with the following commands cd home rtu ftp lt address of FTP server get rtu cal 4 Verify that the file rtu cal in your Arctic Control and the file in your FTP server have identical contents You can list the contents of the rtu cal in Arctic Control by command cat rtu cal You have now restored the file from your FTP server 3 10 2 Method 2 Using wget In this scenario it is assumed that you have an existing web server that can be used for providing content to Arctic Control or that you will install a web server to your Windows computer Note The installation and configuration of a web server to your computer is beyond scope of this document You may consider some lightweight web server as listed in the following link http en wikipedia org wiki Comparison of lightweight web servers 1 Use e g PuTTY to log in to Arctic Control via Ethernet port Telnet session 2 Login as root user with root user s password 3 Copy the calibration file from web server to your Arctic Control with the followin
15. onnect using Intel R 82566DM Gigabit Network C This connection uses the following items E i QoS Packet Scheduler Network Monitor Driver e Internet Protocol TCP IP lt I d al Uninstall Description Allows your computer to access resources on a Microsoft network Show icon in notification area when connected Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity 6 Scroll down the This connection uses the following items list to see the Internet Protocol TCP IP Click the Internet Protocol TCP IP in order to make it active and click Properties 7 Setthe values as follows address as 10 0 0 1 Netmaskas 255 0 0 0 and Default gateway as 10 10 10 10 This way your computer is belonging to the same network as the Arctic Control 8 Verify that you are offering the kernel and root filesystem images with TFTP server Start the TFTP server and click the Browse button then select the directory you want to share with TFTP You may have to grant the privileges for TFTP server to work as server depending on your virus detection software suite Check as well that the Server interface IP address of the network card is 10 0 0 1 if you have multiple 10 14 network interfaces in your computer See the picture below Tftpd32 by Ph Jounin Server interface 10 0 0 1 Server Tftp Client DHCP server Log viewer startt
16. ration profile backup is out of scope of this document Refer to document Arctic Menu and profiles if you are going to use the configuration profile backup otherwise you will need to re configure the Arctic Control after firmware upgrade For manually re configuring the device please verify that you have made notes or screenshots of Arctic Control s initial prior to upgrade settings 5 14 3 4 Setting up the computer s terminal emulation connection In this example we assume that the computer used in the upgrade is a PC equipped with Windows XP operating system OS In case of other operating systems computers refer to OS documentation for details on using an OS specific terminal emulation program The instructions below are for PUTTY PuTTY is a freeware terminal emulator application which is able to act as a client with the SSH Telnet and serial computing protocols You can download PuTTY from the following link http Awww chiark greenend org uk sgtatham putty download html You may also use the HyperTerm which is a default application in Windows XP but because of certain screen layout restrictions we re recommending PuTTY or other third party terminal emulator like Tera Term Pro Ensure that the terminal is set for 19200 bps 8 data bits none parity 1 stop bit and no flow control on your computer as in image below See the next chapter for configuration details R PuTTY Configuration EI Category Session B
17. rom http notepad plus sourceforge net uk site htm Save the file as filename rtu cal to Windows filesystem Verify that the file rtu cal in Windows and the file in Arctic Control have identical contents You have now made a backup of the file to your computer 3 7 Performing the upgrade You should still have the PuTTY serial connection window open If not refer to chapter 3 4 1 for details of opening it The following commands are given to arctic gt prompt of the serial terminal window 3 7 1 1 Filesystem image upgrade Download root filesystem image to Arctic Control using the following TFTP command tftp 20000 filesystem image filename Replace the lt filesystem image filename with the actual filename of the filesystem image file e g tftp 20000 jffs arcticcontrol 5 2 1 1095 bin Note If you re encountering problems loading the filesystem image file do not proceed with the upgrade Solve the TFTP download problem first and load the filesystem image file before erasing the flash memory in the next step Usually the TFTP download problem is due to PC s firewall configuration 12 14 2 Enter the following commands prior flashing the filesystem image to the flash memory protect off 900000 ffffffff erase ff900000 ffffffff 3 After erasing the flash memory copy the new filesystem image to flash memory using following command cp b 20000 900000 filesize Note The 5 filesize is not a placehold
18. s E i A md n Pried rs and Other LL e Marea m L 60 Network and Internet jap eer 1 4 Add or Remove Date Tene Language LII and Regional ptiona M 7 eeh qui Accessib it tuten 10 19 He De it fe m Performance and el Mam E j Senky Center l miie ie fle ilg qe ite 3 Click Network connections icon which looks like one of the following A Network and Internet Network Connections Connections 4 The Network Connections window opens and the correct network interface will right clicked with mouse 9 14 Choose the LAN interface where the LAN cable is connected to Network Connections File Edit View Favorites Tools Advanced Help E c2 2 Search ic Folders EEE Address e Network Connections Network Tasks Si ST Cisco VPN SI LAN See Also Y Ka Disabled Firewalled Connected Firewalled LAN or High Speed Internet E A Cisco Systems VPN Adapter V Intel R 82566DM Gigabit Net Other Places Y OPENVPN WIRELESS LAN Network cable unplugged Fire gt Disabled Shared Firewalled E TAP Win32 Adapter V9 E Dat BUFFALO WLI LI2 KG1255 Wir Details Y 5 Click the correct LAN interface icon with mouse s right button and click Properties from the list You will see the following screen of LAN properties Properties General Advanced C
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