Moxa Technologies MOXA AirWorks User Manual

 

TIP 

If you want to upgrade the firmware of a deployed AP from a remote location over the Internet, 
adjust the Timeout and Max no. of retries settings of the TFTP Server for remote TFTP upgrade 
to succeed. 

 

 

To back up the configuration of the AWK-1100 by TFTP: 

1.  Prepare a computer that will be used as a TFTP server and as a managing computer to trigger 

the backup process. 

2.  Connect the computer and one of the LAN Ethernet switch ports with a normal Ethernet cable. 
3.  Configure the IP address of the computer so that the computer and the AWK-1100 are on the 

same IP sub-net. 

4.  On the computer, run the TFTP Server utility. Select the Accept write requests check box, 

and specify the folder to which the configuration settings of the AP will be saved. 

5.  On the computer, run a Web browser and click the General, Firmware Tools hyperlink. 
6.  Choose TFTP as the Firmware management protocol. 
7.  Within the Configuration Backup/Restore section, specify the IP address of the computer 

that acts as a TFTP server. If you don’t know the IP address of the computer, open a 
Command Prompt, and type ipconfig, then press the Enter key. 

8.  Trigger the backup process by clicking Back Up. The AWK-1100’s configuration settings 

will be saved as “AaBbCcDdEeFf.hex” by the TFTP server, where “AaBbCcDdEeFf” is the 
AWK-1100’s MAC address. For example, if the AWK-1100’s MAC address is 
00-01-02-33-44-55, the configuration backup file will be “000102334455.hex”. 

NOTE 

Remember to select the Accept write requests check box of TFTP Server. 

To restore the configuration of the AWK-1100 by TFTP: 

1.  Prepare a computer that will be used as a TFTP server and as a managing computer to trigger 

the restoring process. 

2.  Connect the computer and one of the LAN Ethernet switch ports with a normal Ethernet cable. 
3.  Configure the IP address of the computer so that the computer and the AWK-1100 are on the 

same IP subnet. 

4.  On the computer, run the TFTP Server utility, and specify the folder in which the 

configuration backup file resides. A configuration backup file is named with the AWK-1100’s 
MAC address. For example, if the AWK-1100’s MAC address is 00-01-02-33-44-55, the 
configuration backup file should be “000102334455.hex”. 

5.  On the computer, open the web browser and click the General, Firmware Tools hyperlink. 
6.  Choose TFTP as the Firmware management protocol. 
7.  In the Configuration Backup/Restore section, specify the IP address of the computer that 

acts as a TFTP server. If you don’t know the IP address of the computer, open a Command 
Prompt, type ipconfig, and then press the Enter key. 

8.  Trigger the restoring process by clicking Restore. The AWK-1100 will then download the 

configuration backup file from the TFTP server.