APC ACRP101 User Manual

For you to be able to use FTP to upgrade a single cooling unit over the 

network:

•  The cooling unit must be connected to the network.
•  The FTP server must be enabled at the cooling unit.
•  The cooling unit must have its TCP/IP settings (System IP, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway 

addresses) configured.

To use FTP to upgrade the cooling unit:

1. Open an MS-DOS command prompt window on a computer that is connected to the network. Go 

to the directory that contains the firmware upgrade files, and list the files. For the directory 

C:\apc

, the commands would be those shown in bold:

C:\>

C:\apc>

Files listed for the cooling unit, for example, might be the following (with xxx representing the 
version number of each file):
–

apc_hw03_aos_

.bin

 

–

apc_hw03_acrp_

.bin

 

2. Open an FTP client session:

C:\apc>

3. Type 

open

 and the cooling unit’s IP address, and press 

E

NTER

. If the port setting for the FTP 

Server (accessible through the Administration tab, Network on the top menu bar, and FTP 
Server on the left navigation menu) has changed from its default of 21, you must use the non-
default value in the FTP command.

– For some FTP clients, use a colon to add the port number to the end of the IP address.
– For Windows FTP clients, separate the port number from the IP address by a space. For 

example, if the cooling unit’s FTP Server Port setting has been changed from its default of 
21, such as to 21000, you would use the following command for a Windows FTP client 
transferring a file to the cooling unit with an IP address of 150.250.6.10.

ftp> 

4. Log on using the Administrator user name and password. (apc is the default for both.)
5. Upgrade the AOS. In the 

put

 command in the following example, xxx is the firmware version 

number, with no periods separating the digits:

ftp> 

ftp> 

 

6. When FTP confirms the transfer, type quit to close the session.
7. Wait 20 seconds, and then repeat step 2 through step 5, but in step 5, use the application module 

file name instead of the AOS module.