How to upgrade...

The firmware can be upgraded using:

• AXIS Camera Management (software for upgrading single and/or multiple products)
• HTTP
• FTP

AXIS Camera Management

AXIS Camera Management is an installation and management tool specially designed to manage multiple Axis video products. Installed on your Windows PC, AXIS Camera Management can be used in all sizes of installations with Axis video products. The tool is designed to manage hundreds of Axis video products.

Supported products: AXIS 2xx series (except AXIS 205/230/250S/262/292)

Note: Your Axis network video products must have firmware 4.03/4.10 or higher in order to operate with the AXIS Camera Management software. Products with firmware versions below 4.03/4.10 must be upgraded via HTTP or FTP.

1. Download and install AXIS Camera Management on your computer.
2. Go to Support and check for the latest firmware releases for your Axis products and save these to your hard disk.
3. Run AXIS Camera Management. All the Axis devices found on the local subnet (or on subnets with routers that support multicasting) are shown in the list.
4. Select the devices that you want to upgrade with new firmware (you can even select different models) and click the upgrade icon.
   Note: a dialog will open if some of the devices can not be configured, e.g. if the devices are not accessible.
5. The Upgrade Firmware dialog shows a list of camera models and, if you expand the list, you can see the current firmware version installed in each device.
6. Click to locate the new firmware versions stored on your hard drive. This needs to be done for each Axis network camera or video server model.
7. Click OK to start upgrading the devices.

Options

There are a number of options you can choose when upgrading the firmware. The first is how the devices will be upgraded, i.e. one after the other (Sequence) or in groups (Parallel). As the devices will be offline when they are being upgraded, choosing Sequence will take longer, but fewer devices will be offline at the same time. Alternatively, choose Parallel, which is quicker, but more devices will be offline at the same time.

HTTP

1. Download the upgrade file to a directory that is accessible from your local computer.
2. Go to the product's start page (e.g. http://192.168.0.90).
3. Click the Setup link and log in as root (or any other user with Administrator privileges) if you are prompted for a username and password.
4. You must be logged in as an Administrator to upgrade the unit.
5. Click System Options in the menu to the left.
6. Click Maintenance.
7. Click the Browse button in the Upgrade Server section.
8. Select the upgrade file you downloaded (and maybe decompressed) from www.axis.com
9. Click the Open button.
10. Click the Upgrade button in the Upgrade Server section.
11. Wait for the flash load to complete, which may take 1-10 minutes.

The upgrade procedure is in four steps. The LEDs indicate the progress of the upgrade procedure, please refer to the user's manual for a description of the power, status and network LED indicators:

After the upgrade has completed, the unit will automatically initiate the system. 

FTP

1. You must be at the command prompt and in the directory that contains the upgrade file. Example: C:\Axis\213\4_02>
2. From the command prompt, open an FTP connection to the unit you wish to upgrade. (Do not use a "Windows" based FTP-program to do this, use only command line FTP programs!)
3. Log in as root. The default password for the root user is "pass", unless this has been changed by the user. You must be logged in as the root user to upgrade the unit.
4. Change to binary transfer mode by typing "bin" and press enter. Type "hash" and press enter. (This will allow you to see how the upgrade progresses)
5. Type the command "put XXX.bin flash" where XXX.bin is the name of the upgrade file you downloaded (and maybe decompressed) from our site. 
6. Wait for the flash load to complete, which may take 1-10 minutes. 

The upgrade procedure is in four steps:

After the upgrade has completed, the unit will automatically initiate the system.