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Device recovery via USB

netFIELD Compact X8M | User manual
DOC220302UM01EN | Revision 1 | English | 2022-05 | Released | Public
Overview
This section describes how to reset the netFIELD OS of your device by
installing a "recovery" image firmware from a USB stick.
A device recovery via USB can be necessary if the netFIELD OS has
become instable or corrupted, or if you have "locked yourself out" of the
Local Device Manager because you have deactivated or misconfigured its
Ethernet interfaces or if you have forgotten the administrator's password.
Note that it is not possible to "downgrade" your OS; i.e. the installation of an
OS version that is "older" than the currently installed OS version is not
supported.
Important:
In a device recovery, all configuration settings, user accounts and
deployed containers of the current netFIELD OS will be deleted.
This means that you will have to commission and configure your
device again after the recovery procedure.
Note also that the firmware of the netX communication controller will
not be affected by the recovery.
Requirements
FAT32-formatted USB stick with a minimum of 500 MByte storage
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capacity.
Note:
USB sticks with a storage capacity of more than 64 GByte cannot
be easily formatted under Windows in FAT32. If you intend to use
such a high-capacity stick, use a tool like e.g. HP USB STICK
FORMAT to format the stick under Windows.
You have downloaded the recovery image from Hilscher to your local
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PC (see below for instructions).
You have physical access to the device (in order to plug-in the USB
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stick).
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