Secondary System Controller Update

System Controller Simplified Block Diagram

The Exigo System Controller consist of two main components:

• Primary System Controller, PSC
• Secondary System Controller, SSC

This article describes how to upgrade the software on the Secondary System Controller part of the Exigo System Controller. The Secondary System Controller is also called Turbine Board.

Upgrade using the Web Interface

Prerequisites

1. A TFTP Server must be available. A TFTP server can be downloaded from here: http://tftpd32.jounin.net/tftpd32_download.html
2. Download the latest Exigo firmware/software package and unzip the folder.
3. Check if your local firewall is not blocking incoming ping/ICMP (Turbine station is pinging TFTP Server during update process).

Upgrade procedure

• Start the TFTP server program and click Browse, and select the folder where the latest version of exi-x.x.x.x software files are located

TFTP32

• Log on to the Secondary System Controller web interface. Default login credentials are admin and alphaadmin. Select Station Administration > Manual Upgrade
• Enter the IP address of the TFTP server (I.e. the IP address of your PC)
• Enter the image file: exi-x.x.x.x, and click Save settings

Secondary System Controller - Upgrade web interface

The station will now contact the TFTP server and download the files. The upgrade procedure takes about 3 minutes. The process can be monitored by clicking the Log viewer tab in the TFTP server program.