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10.2 Nucleus2 2463 Router Control Module Advanced Operations (USB)
The following sections describe how to perform upgrade and housekeeping operations on a
Nucleus2 router control modules using a USB memory stick. As these operations involve
plugging a USB memory stick into the controller they must be carried out at the router.
The USB memory stick is usually only used for controller housekeeping operations as
controller upgrades can be carried out from any computer on the controller network using the
RollCall Java web applet (see section 9.4 for details).
Controller Housekeeping
Controller housekeeping operations include:
• Assigning controller IP address(es)
• Setting the controller replicated peer
• Purging the controller DCCP Config, Persisted Data and Config files
• Updating the controller Config.xml file
• Listing the controller file system structure to the USB memory stick
• Deleting controller files
• Copying files and directories from the USB memory stick to the controller
• Enabling/Disabling the controller watchdog
• Moving the controller logs from the controller to the USB memory stick
Controller Upgrade
Upgrade operations include:
• Updating controller software and firmware
• Copying RollCall command set files and Web Content files to the controller
The following steps are carried out when performing any upgrade or housekeeping operation
on a controller using a USB memory stick:
1. Prepare the USB memory stick for use (only required the first time it is used, see
section 10.2.8).
2. Use Pbak Deploy to copy the RTB and various system files to the memory stick (see
section 10.2.1)
3. Copy additional files to the USB memory stick (the actual files required depend on the
operation(s) to be carried out, see section 10.2.2)
4. Create the Actions.txt file (actions required depend on the operations to be carried
out, see section 10.2.3)
5. Insert the USB memory stick in the controller and perform the actions (see section
10.2.7)
Examples:
Examples of typical controller operations are detailed in sections 10.2.4 to 10.2.6.
If the Nucleus2 2463 router control module is running an RTB file from Workbench release
3.14.2 or later the preferred upgrade process is to use RollCall update and this is
described in section 9.4. The preferred upgrade method updates the controller software,
firmware, RollCall Command Set files and Webcontent files from a single zip file.
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