Upgrade ION Device Software
Schedule downloads and upgrades to start at a designated time. If you do not provide
download and upgrade time, the upgrade immediately follows the download.
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You can schedule ION device software
downloads and upgrades in a staged manner, allowing multiple attempts
within a specific period of time while eliminating interruption
to the network.
Software scheduling is not available for pre-release 5.1.1
devices. Upgrade your device to version 5.1.1 to take advantage
of scheduling downloads and upgrades.
Schedule downloads and upgrades to start at a
designated time. If you do not provide download and upgrade time,
the upgrade immediately follows the download. If you provide only
the download time, the upgrade does not immediately follow the download,
and needs to be scheduled. The download interval and the upgrade
interval serves as a limit until download or upgrade attempts are performed
respectively.
If you specify interface IDs, the device uses
the specified interface to perform the software download. If you
do not specify the interface, the ION device uses the controller
interface or any interface that is marked as use for internet. If
you specify multiple interfaces, then any available interface provided
in the list is used in random order. No interfaces outside of the
manually-specified list are used.
You can schedule upgrades and downgrades as follows:
Upgrade without Max Upgrade Time—The ION device
automatically performs the download and the upgrade sequentially
at the scheduled time. If the ION device experiences an upgrade
failure, it retries the download or upgrade three times before it
indicates a failure.
Upgrade with Max Upgrade Time—The ION device starts
the download and the upgrade sequentially at the scheduled time.
Max Upgrade Time serves as an upper limit until which the download
or upgrade is tried by the ION device. If the ION device experiences
an upgrade failure, it retries the download or upgrade three times
before it indicates a failure. The default Max Upgrade Time is 30
minutes.
Download without Max Download Time—The ION device
performs the download at the scheduled time. If the ION device experiences
a download failure, the device retries the download or upgrade three
time before it indicates a failure. If there is a download failure,
the device does not perform a software upgrade.
Download with Max Download Time—The ION device performs
the download at the scheduled time. The Max Download Time serves
as the upper time limit until which the download is tried by the
device. If the device experiences a download failure, it retries
the download three times before it indicates a failure. If there
is a download failure, the device does not perform a software upgrade.
The default Max Download Time is 30 minutes.
No Download and Upgrade Time Provided—The ION device
performs the download and upgrade automatically.
You can cancel a software download, abort a software download,
abort a software upgrade, perform an upgrade on already downloaded
software, or retry download on software download failures. You can
also perform rollbacks to older software versions if required.
