APC Hardware

This page will describe maintanence tasks and miscellanous information on the APC hardware used in the MSU server room (PDUs and Rack Air Removal Units (RARU))

Updating firmware

APC gives its firmware packages in the form of a windows executable that will extract several files, then run a windows batch script prompting you for IP information, etc. Since it can be annoying to attach a windows machine to the desired network, I've found the most straightforward thing to do is to manually install the extracted files. For example, for the RARU came with two components apc_hw02_raru_370.bin and apc_hw02_aos_373.bin. I updated it with the following commands using ftp (order is important).

> ftp door-106-1
# asks for login information
ftp> bin                                                                 
200 TYPE Command okay.                                                   
ftp> put apc_hw02_aos_373.bin                                            
local: apc_hw02_aos_373.bin remote: apc_hw02_aos_373.bin                 
227 Entering Passive Mode (10,10,142,52,190,28).                         
125 Data connection already open; transfer starting.                     
226 Closing data connection.                                             
ftp> quit  
> ftp door-106-1
# asks for login information
ftp> bin                                                                 
200 TYPE Command okay.                                                   
ftp> put apc_hw02_raru_370.bin                                           
local: apc_hw02_raru_370.bin remote: apc_hw02_raru_370.bin               
227 Entering Passive Mode (10,10,142,52,184,219).                        
125 Data connection already open; transfer starting.                     
226 Closing data connection.                        
ftp> quit  

-- JamesKoll - 01 Jul 2013