Industrial Managed
Ethernet Switch
User Manual
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2.8
Maintenance
The
Maintenace
function is the seventh circular icon on the menu bar. It is the circular icon with a cloud picture. This
function contains important features that allow the user to maintain the operation of the EH3408 series lite-managed
switch. The
Mainteance
function includes the following features as shown in Figure 2.50:
Firmware
,
Backup/Restore
,
Backup/Restore (storage device)
,
Factory Default
,
Reboot
, and
Apply All
.
Figure 2.50 Maintenace Function
2.8.1
Firmware feature
The firmware feature under the
Maintenace
function shows two information about the managed switch: firmware
and image bank. The user can check the current boot
Loader Version
,
Kernel Virsion
, and
Firmware Version
under
the
Upgrade Firmware
section. On the
Select Image Bank
section, there are information related to
Image Banks
. The
EH3408 device has two or dual image banks. One of the image banks is set as
Current Image Bank
or is the one
currently applied to the switch. The other image bank is the backup. If the user upgrades a firmware to the switch,
the new firmware image will be updated to the backup bank. When the upgrade progress completed, the device will
reboot. After rebooting, the upgraded bank will be applied. The originally applied image bank before rebooting will
become the backup image bank.
Figure 2.51 Firmware Feature
In the process of traditional firmware update and during firmware upgrade progress on a device, the system might
suffer from unpredictable disconnection or interruption of power supply. This may lead to unrecoverable damage on
the device and it will have to be sent for repair. With dual image banks in EH3408 series, even though the system