Update Tool Introduction

The Update Tool is used to upgrade software for the SONET series products of
Huawei Co., LTD. Its intelligent characteristics allow loading boards of more than one
station if required. The tool supports the following functions:

Query the actual status of NE to judge the board type of each slot.

Adjust the downloaded software as required.

Analyze the current version of an NE and upgrade the software that is

different with the software package, reducing influence upon activating
network after upgrade.

Support rollback function, and the user can choose the time point to be
rolled back.

Activate a certain board or all boards of an NE at the same time, and

activate the board (by cold reset or warm reset) according to its loaded
software.

Record the LOG file during the upgrade to control the upgrade process.

This tool simplifies the upgrade process significantly. The operating personnel only
needs to input the IP address of the NE to be upgraded and select the software package
to be loaded; the procedure will load the software to the equipment and activate the new
software as required.
System require:
Windows 2000/XP, the hard disk which the tool live in has over 100M free space

Caution:

The version of UpdateTool can be used to upgrade NE between

Metro1600R1B2C3 and Metro1600R1B2C3SP2/C3SP3/C4/C4SP1, or
Metro800R1B1C3/C3SP1 and Metro800R1B1C3SP2/C3SP3/C4/C4SP1.
Because of the compatibility issue between C3/C3SP1 and
C3SP2/C3SP3/C4/C4SP1, Repeating upgrade and downgrade maybe cause the
NE rebooting continuously if a specifically file isnt deleted. The version of the
UpdateTool is different from the before:
1. Automatically delete the file which will cause the NE rebooting after upgrade. It
doesnt effect the traffic.
2, Warm reboot all cards after upgrade. Because no FPGA is changed, only warm

rebooting is needed.

Update Tool Constitution

The Update Tool is a sub-function of Navigator, the maintenance tool of Huawei SONET
product. It can be started by selecting DownLoad /SONET Update Tool menu from the
Navigator menu. The Update Tool also can work without Navigator. The tool should work
with the INI file of the software package. The INI file contains the boards to be loaded by
each board and the edition information of the software package.

Supported Product
The Update Tool supports OptiX Metro1600V100R001 and OptiX Metro800V100R001.
Because the version is a special version, it only support the NE version listed in the table
below.
SONET Equipment
NE Version
First Version
Last version
Metro1600V100R001B02
5.16.02.04
5.16.02.19
Metro800V100R001
5.25.01.03
5.25.01.19

Usage Description

Step 1: Confirm NE Version

you can choose the About Upgrade Tool to check the version in Help menu.
The version of UpgradeTool should be 1.2(patch 2), please confirm it.

Step 2: Choosing software package

Click <Browse>, a document browse box appears.

Select the INI file in the software package that you want to download. Do not change the
INI file name, because the name determines the product type of the software package.
Currently, the procedure supports Metro1600, Metro800

Step 3: Adding an NE:

In the IP Address bar, input the IP address of the NE to be upgraded, and input the valid
user and password.
By default:
User: SONET; Password: SONET
Click the <Add> button, the procedure will try to log in to the station and query the
information. After that, click OK in the pop-up window to confirm NE Login & Info
Check Completed.

The IP address and the NE type information will appear in the NE list.

The new NE is upgraded by the procedure by default. If you do not hope an NE is

loaded immediately, you can unselect the station, the Highlight mark on the IP address of
the node will disappear and the NE will not be upgraded. Alternatively, you can select the
NE and press the <Del> key, then the NE will be deleted from the NE list.
After NE is added, please dont login NE by the same user/password with update tool, or
the tool will be forced to logout NE

Step 4: Downloading
Click Upgrade All, a dialog box appears as follow:

Suggest to selecting "YES". Selecting Yes, the procedure will backup database, it
means to support rollback. If selecting No, the procedure will not backup database, it

will not support rollback. Then the procedure will start to upgrade. You can inspect the
loading information in Detailed Upgrade Log and Progress info, upon any exception,
the procedure will report the detailed information in red words.

During loading, you can click Cancel One Ne to terminate the upgrade process of an
NE.
If failure occur in upgrade, customer can click <Upgrade All> and choose YES for
Supports Rollback to retry, or customer may retry after rollback
When upgrade completed, it appears:

Rollback
To recover to the original state, click Rollback All and a window will appear.

Choose the time point to be rolled back and click OK, then start to rollback:

When rollback completed, it appears:

Then click the <reset> button in the Update Tool to reset the node.
If customer retry upgrade without rollback sometimes, customer must rollback all time
points by the opposite order.

Step 5: Activating
After upgrading an NE, select the NE, click Reboot NE and the activating window
appears, as shown in the figure below.

If click Reset All, all boards will be reset at the same time.
You can also click the Reset Slot button beside the board, proceeding board reset one
by one. This operation works if you try to ease service interruption due to upgrade by the
system protection function.

Now, the upgrade is completed.

Others:

Expert mode:
When the procedure is in NE Selection state, you can choose the Expert Mode in
Help/User Mode menu. In this mode, you can decide the part that each board
participates in the upgrade. Four options are available.
1. FPGA
2. INI
3. SOFT
4. ExtBios
Note that the expert mode only supports single NE, and you should select an NE after
choosing the expert mode.

Clearing database:
Generally, upgrading software does not need to delete a database. However, in some
special cases, the database should be cleared. This software provides the database
clearance function implicitly.
Move the cursor below File in the menu, double click the right key of the mouse, the
button of database clearance will appear:

Left click the NE IP then click <Reboot NE>:

It appears as follow, then click <Reset All>:

The NE will do a reset and this step is finished.