Tadiran Telecom Coral IPx 500, Installation Manual

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Software Installation Procedure
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The Coral IPx 500 is delivered to the site with factory-loaded software on IMC8 card.
The IMC8 card is a 8MB flash memory card. See
page 8-23, IMC8 Card
for details. The
IMC8 card is installed on the MCP-IPx card.
The software initialization procedure is described in
page 3-7, Common Control Test
.
The IMC8 card contains three types of data:
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Generic Feature Software Version and Boot Code
„
Authorization
„
Database Backup
The IMC8 card can be inserted into a PC slot using any PCMCIA application adapter
for loading a new Coral software version.
Whenever an updated version of the Coral IPx 500 software is released, the upgrade is
delivered to the sites either on 3.5
”
diskettes, e-mail, or via other electronic media file
transfer. The upgrade is contained in a self-extracting compressed file that is specific
for the site.
The upgraded generic feature software must be extracted by a PC using the FMprog
tool, and then written from the PC hard disk into the IMC8 card. The FMprog is a tool
for Coral dealers who install, upgrade and maintain Coral systems using flash memory
cards. See the
FMprog PC-Utility Reference Manual . This reference manual describes
how to install and operate the FMprog-Utility.
1 Introduction