Installing Option 215; Installing Optional Measurement Personalities - Agilent Technologies PSA Series User Manual

Getting Started

Installing Option 215

Installing Option 215
You must load the desired personality option into the instrument
memory. Loading can be done from a firmware CD-ROM or the internet
location. An automatic loading program comes with the files and runs
from your PC.
When you add a new option, or update an existing option, you will get
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the updated version of all your current options since they are reloaded
simultaneously. This process may also require you to update the
instrument core firmware so that it is compatible with the new option.
You may not be able to fit all of the available measurement
personalities in instrument memory at the same time. You may need to
delete an existing option file from memory and load the one you want.
Use the automatic update program that is provided with the files to do
this.
The approximate memory requirements for the available options can be
found by using the memory calculator on the following internet
location: http://www.agilent.com/find/psa_firmware
You can install an updated version of firmware and your licensed
options using a LAN connection and your PC. Instructions for loading
future firmware updates are available from the following internet
location: http://www.agilent.com/find/psa/

Installing Optional Measurement Personalities

When you install a measurement personality, you need to follow a three
step process:
1. Determine whether your memory capacity is sufficient to contain all
the options you want to load. If not, decide which options you want to
install now, and consider upgrading your memory. Details follow in
"Do You Have Enough Memory to Load All Your Personality
Options?" on page
2. Install the measurement personality firmware into the instrument
memory. Details follow in
Personality" on page
3. Enter a license key that activates the measurement personality.
Details follow in
page
Adding measurement personalities requires the purchase of a retrofit
kit for the desired option. The retrofit kit contains the measurement
personality firmware and an entitlement certificate that is used to
generate a license key from the internet website. A separate license key
is required for each option on a specific instrument serial number and
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"Loading an Optional Measurement
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"Obtaining and Installing a License Key" on
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