{"id":438,"date":"2022-08-06T22:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T06:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/?p=438"},"modified":"2023-03-12T15:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T23:43:48","slug":"howto-apc-masterswitch-ap9211-with-ap9606-firmware-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"[HowTo] APC Masterswitch AP9211 with AP9606 Firmware Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a few old APC Masterswitch Power Controller with AP9606 Web\/SNMP Management Card stored away in my garage for years&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally I found some use for them and I wanted to update the firmwares before I install them for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s needed:<br><s>Tripp-Lite USB to DB9 Adapter<\/s> &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tripplite.com\/support\/usa19hs\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.tripplite.com\/support\/usa19hs<\/a><br>Plugable USB Serial Adapter &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/plugable.com\/products\/pl2303-db9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/plugable.com\/products\/pl2303-db9<\/a><br>DB9 Null Modem Female to Female adapter &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/dl8Q76C\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/a.co\/d\/dl8Q76C<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><s>On MacOS(Monterey v12.5), I had to download and install the driver for Tripp-Lite USB to DB9 adapter and use the following command to connect to APC Masterswitch<\/s>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">screen \/dev\/tty.usbserial-1410 2400,cs8,-ixon<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I did some web searching and found the following firmwares:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>aos309a.bin &#8211; APC OS for AP9606(download link below)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ms225a.bin &#8211; Masterswitch Application(download link below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I followed the ftp instruction for firmware update &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apc.com\/us\/en\/faqs\/FA156047\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.apc.com\/us\/en\/faqs\/FA156047\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, once I get logged into the AP9606 via Serial connection, I figured out the MAC address then assigned IP via BOOTP with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">apc -s 192.168.?.? &lt;MAC Address><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Then uploaded MasterSwitch APP, v2.2.5.a via ftp then Web\/SNMP Management Card AOS v3.0.9.a then disabled BOOTP and configured static IP TCP\/IP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-278414ef-17de-4882-916d-b0b5f4b248b5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aos309a.bin_.zip\">aos309a.bin_<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aos309a.bin_.zip\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-278414ef-17de-4882-916d-b0b5f4b248b5\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-68fd83fb-c3de-4b06-97c1-08e7bdf7c78a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ms225a.bin_.zip\">ms225a.bin_<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ms225a.bin_.zip\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-68fd83fb-c3de-4b06-97c1-08e7bdf7c78a\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few old APC Masterswitch Power Controller with AP9606 Web\/SNMP Management Card stored away in my garage for years&#8230; Finally I found some use for them and I wanted to update the firmwares before I install them for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/?p=438\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,85,119],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apc","tag-howto","tag-masterswitch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48Rtg-74","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}