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3. Insert the USB flash drive with software kit into any of USB ports on your Active System
Director.
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You can run the software installer from the USB flash drive. The advantage of copying the
software kit to the Avid ISIS is that you have easy access to kit files if you should ever them in the
future.
If the USB flash drive does not automatically display:
a.
Double-click the computer icon on the desktop.
b.
Double-click the USB flash drive icon in the window and copy the software kit into the
new folder you created on the Avid ISIS system.
4. Double-click the Autorun.exe file in the software kit.
The installer detects the existing version of the installed software (if any) and displays the
components that need to be upgraded in the splash screen.
5. Select ISIS 7000 System Director from the “Select Software Package” menu.
The File Gateway selection is used when loading the Avid File Gateway server. The File
Gateway software cannot be installed on the same server as the System Director software.
6. Click Apply.
7. Follow the screen prompts accepting the defaults and License agreement.
8. Once the installation is complete, click Finish.
9. Install the Application Key or apply your software license.
10. Load the ISBs and ISS/IXSs firmware. Using the ISIS Management Console, select all the
ISBs and click Upgrade Storage Blades and then select all your ISS/IXSs and click Upgrade
Switch Blades. You do not need to wait for the ISBs to be finished, you can upgrade ISBs
and ISS/IXSs at the same time.
You can watch the upgrade progress in your Monitoring tool.
11. Open the ISIS Control Panel.
12. Click Stop System Director.
13. Click Configure File System.
14. Open the Management Console.
Log in using the Administrator user name and the default password is blank.
15. Select Create Active File System and click OK.
16. Click the Storage Managers icon.
17. Select your ISIS ISBs in the list and click Bind.
18. Create a Storage Group, Workspaces, and add Users in the Management Console.
