Appendix A: Reinstalling Engine Software - Extreme Networks ExtremeAnalytics PV-A-305 Installation Manuals

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Reinstalling Engine Software
In the event a software reinstall becomes necessary, use this procedure. Be aware that this procedure
reformats the hard drive and reinstalls all the engine software, the operating system, and all related
Linux packages.
Connect a monitor and a USB keyboard to the Application Analytics engine prior to performing these
steps.
1 Download the Extreme Analytics Engine Image 64bit (ZIP) file to your system.
To download an engine image:
1 Access the Extreme Portal at:
https://extremeportal.force.com/.
2 After entering your email address and password, you are on the Support page.
3 Click the Products tab and select ExtremeAnalytics.
4 Click ExtremeAnalytics in the right-panel.
5 Select a version.
6 Download the following image file and extract the file to a directory on your system:
Application Analytics Engine Upgrade (BIN)
2 Insert the USB flash drive that came with the PV-A-305 engine into the USB port on your system
and note the drive letter it is assigned.
3 Format the USB flash drive.
4 Open a command prompt window and cd to the directory where you extracted the file.
For example, enter the following to change to the /Users/jsmith directory: cd /Users/jsmith
5 Type make_disk.bat drive letter:.
Note
Because the reinstall procedure reformats the drive, be sure you have specified the correct
drive letter.
6 Press [Enter].
The files are copied to the USB flash drive. When the copy is complete you see the message:
Successfully installed into <drive letter>: Press any key to continue.
7 Remove the USB flash drive from your system.
8 Insert the USB flash drive into a USB port on the engine (see
9 Press the power button on the PV-A-305 engine.
ExtremeAnalytics® PV-A-305 Installation Guide for version 8.1
Figure 1 on page 9).
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