Canopy CNUT 3 1 1 Release Notes

CNUT 3.
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Canopy Network Updater Tool
Release 3.11 Release Notes
October 2008

Contents
Purpose of Document............................................................................................................... 1
New Features in CNUT 3.11.................................................................................................... 2
Additional Fixes and Changes ................................................................................................ 2
Known Issues ............................................................................................................................ 3
CNUT 3.11 Installation............................................................................................................ 3
General Installation Information....................................................................................... 3
Launching Installation on Windows.................................................................................. 4
Launching Installation on Redhat Linux.......................................................................... 4
Additional Information and Support ..................................................................................... 4

Purpose of Document
Canopy Network Updater Tool (CNUT) is a free tool supplied to Canopy customers to aid in the
upgrading of Canopy equipment on their network. CNUT is supported on Windows 2003 and XP
platforms as well as on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. This document
communicates the customer-facing changes to CNUT that are included in this release.

Users may upgrade either from any previous release.

CNUT 3.1 or later is a mandatory upgrade required by
all Canopy operators who wish to upgrade Canopy
elements to Canopy System Release 8.4 or later.

CNUT 3.1 or later is required for customers who are adding any of the following element types
to their networks:
Motorola PMP 500 modules (the 3.5-GHz OFDM products previously known as
MOTOwi4 ULAP and Ultra Light OSU)
Motorola PTP 500 modules (high-speed OFDM backhauls)
CMM4
Powerline LV MDU Gateway
Powerline LV Repeater products.
elements that run Canopy System Release 9.0

CNUT 3.1 or later is not required for other Canopy network operators who have already
upgraded to CNUT 2.0 and are not using these new products. However, they may wish to
upgrade to CNUT 3.11 to reduce downtime in upgrading the system release on PTP 400, 500,
or 600 Series Bridges.

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In support of these new device types, the device icons in CNUT have been updated. These
changes include a cleaner version of the PLV modem and PLV bridge icons as well as a new
icon for CMM micros and new icons for each of the new devices supported. The following table
shows the icons supported by CNUT 3.11:

Icon Device Type

Canopy PMP 100 or 200 Series Subscriber Module (SM)

Canopy PMP 100 or 200 Series Access Point (AP)

10-Mbps Backhaul (BH) or PTP 100 Series Bridge

High-speed Backhaul (HSBH), PTP Series 400, 500, or 600 Bridge

Cluster Management Module micro (CMMmicro)

Cluster Management Module-4 (CMM4)

Ultra Light Access Point (ULAP) or
Motorola PMP 500 Series OFDM Access Point

Outdoor Subscriber Unit (OSU) or
Motorola PMP 500 Series OFDM Subscriber Module

Powerline Low Voltage (PLV) Bridge

Powerline Low Voltage (PLV) Modem

Powerline Low Voltage (PLV) MDU Gateway

Powerline Low Voltage (PLV) Repeater

Group (non-element)

New Features in CNUT 3.11
The user can select whether the AP updates P7/P8/P9 or P10 SMs first during the SM
auto update process.
The user can select hardware platform as an attribute (HW Platform) whose value
can be included in a network tree view.
The Canopy Customer Support Information Tool no longer requires the root account
access to a module before extracting information from the module. Any account has
sufficient permission.
Additional Fixes and Changes
Running the Canopy Customer Support Information Tool no longer risks an incidental reboot of
an AP in which more than 50 SMs are registered.
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Known Issues
Two items deserve operator attention:
In a Windows platform, if you click on a Canopy networked device link in a file that
the Canopy Customer Support Information Tool generates and then you make a
change to the device via the resulting interface, the change renders the device
unresponsive. The tool generates files for you to only send to the Canopy technical
support team, not for you to use as diagnostics and not for you to click in for access to
the management interfaces of your elements. Do not use these links. Until this issue is
resolved, Canopy will continue to track it under Item ID 0008211.
Upgrading to CNUT 3.11 over a pre-existing CNUT version may result in a failure of
the JVM copy operation that should be automatically done by the installation tool.
If the following directory is not present after the CNUT 3.11 installation tool has
finished, then the copy operation failed:
CNUT_Installation_Directory/NetworkUpdater/_jvm/bin

If this directory is not present, rerun the CNUT 3.11 installation tool, selecting the
continue option as in the initial upgrade run of the tool. The rerun will put this critical
directory and its contents into place. Until this issue is resolved, Canopy will continue
to track it under Item ID 0008323.
CNUT 3.11 Installation
General Installation Information
The CNUT 3.11 installation is a single file Install Anywhere installation. The installation
file can be downloaded from the Canopy website at http://www.motorola.com/canopy.
The operator must choose between the Windows version and the Red Hat Linux version
of the installer. An md5 file is available and recommended for downloading and checking
the integrity of the downloaded installation tool file.

After double-clicking on the installation file, the operator is guided through the
installation. CNUT 3.11 automatically detects whether a previous release is already
installed on the computer and prompts the operator to upgrade CNUT on the computer.
This is the recommended installation practice, because the operator's existing preferences
and external tools associated with their CNUT installation will automatically be imported
into their CNUT 3.11 installation.

The operator can choose between a Typical installation (which is recommended) or a
Custom installation. A Typical installation installs only the CNUT 3.11 components. The
Custom installation allows the operator to choose whether to have CNUT Perl support
libraries installed for use with any custom external tools they may have authored.

Full details about the CNUT 3.11 installation are provided in the Installation section of
the CNUT 3.11 Help File.

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Launching Installation on Windows
To run the installation on any supported Windows platform, download the file
setupCNUT_3_11_r2.exe to your local computer and double-click on it to execute it.

After the installation, check for the presence of the folder that is referenced by the second
item under Known Issues on Page 3.
Launching Installation on Redhat Linux
Download the file setupCNUT_3_11_r2.bin. Before running the installer in Linux,
change the permissions on the downloaded setup file by executing the following
command:

chmod +x setupCNUT_3_11_r2.bin

Then, to run the installer, execute the following command:

setupCNUT_3_11_r2.bin i console

After the installation, check for the presence of the folder that is referenced by the second
item under Known Issues on Page 3.
Additional Information and Support
Support for CNUT can be obtained from the following sources:
o CNUT v3.11 Help File
o Motorola Canopy web site: http://www.motorola.com/canopy
o Motorola Canopy Community Forum on the support area of the Canopy web site
o Motorola Canopy Support technical email:
[email protected]

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