Updating Edge Devices

The following procedure describes the update process of a SIMATIC IPC Industrial Edge Device with its IED-OS.

Requirement

• The IE Device Catalog app is mandatory to update IED-OS versions and must be installed in the IEM OS.
• A new Industrial Edge Device OS version is released.

Procedure

1. Log into the Management UI as admin user respectively user with admin permissions.

2. In the navigation menu, click Admin Management.
   The Admin UI is opened.

3. Click Device Catalog.
   All available Edge Device Types are displayed.

4. Click the tile of the Edge Device Type whose released IED-OS versions you want to synchronize with the IEM.
   If an Internet and IE Hub connection is established, all released IED-OS versions are being loaded automatically.

5. In case you establish an Internet connection just afterwards, click Pull Versions to manually load all released IED-OS versions.
   All released IED-OS versions of that Edge Device Type are displayed, in this example of the Industrial Edge -SIMATIC IPC427E.
   

6. Click the icon of the newly released IED-OS version.
   The IED-OS version will be synchronized with your IEM. When the synchronization was successful, the Downloaded status is displayed. The selected IED-OS version is now available in your IEM to update your Edge Devices to.

   NOTICE

   Click the icon to display the release notes for that firmware release in MD format.

7. In the navigation menu, click Edge Management.

8. Navigate to Edge Devices.

9. In the Edge Devices screen, click the icon.

10. Click Firmware Update.
    The Edge Device Firmware Update screen is displayed.
    
    The OS version that is running on each Edge Device is displayed under Version in the row of each Edge Device.
    When the OS version of an Edge Device corresponds to the newest OS version, Up to date is displayed below the version information. These Edge Devices are not selectable anymore and cannot be updated.
    When the OS version of an Edge Device does not correspond to the newest OS version that has been synchronized with the IEM, Outdated is displayed below the version. These Edge Devices can be updated.

11. Select the Edge Device that you want to update to the newest OS version and which is marked with Outdated.
    When more than one device is marked with Outdated, you have the possibility to click on Select all:
    
    When Select all option is clicked, only updatable devices are selected (i.e. the devices which have outdated and online status). Green marked devices indicate that they are updatable.

    NOTICE

    Please be aware that having firmware update for 20 devices and creating more than one batch of firmware update jobs may cause high load on IEM and its network bandwidth. Therefore, please consider the bandwidth of your IEM installation when using this feature.

12. From the Available Version drop-down list , select the OS version you want to update to.
    Only OS versions that has been synchronized with the IEM, only compatible versions and versions according to the Edge Device Type can be selected. The newest OS version, that has been synchronized with the IEM, is displayed as Latest Available. IED-OS versions that have not been yet synchronized with the IEM are marked with the icon. You can update to these versions but they must be first synchronized with the IEM by the admin.
    When you select a valid IED-OS version, the Update button is enabled.

13. Click Update.
    An update job is created. The job status is displayed in the row of each Edge Device. By clicking the icon, you refresh the job status.
    When updating an IED-OS version, the job runs subsequently through the following job status:

    • Download
    • Installing
    • Activating

    When clicking the icon, details and steps that the firmware job was going through are displayed in the job history. In case of a failure, you can check the job history to get more details.
    The Edge Device reboots between the Installing and Activating job status.
    When the update was successful, the OS version of the selected Edge Device has been updated.
    
    Instead of the Available Version drop-down list, the No new updates available message is displayed.

    NOTICE

    After Edge Devices have been updated successfully, refresh the Edge Device UI of the respective Edge Devices to see the updated IED-OS version in the statistics information of these Edge Devices. Otherwise, an outdated IED-OS version will be displayed.

Delay Install for Firmware Update

When selecting more than one Device in the Firmware Update screen the Update Delayed option becomes available in addition to the Update Now option.

NOTICE

The Select all option only selects updatable Devices.

NOTICE

Firmwares must be synchronized (downloaded) in order to start the update, otherwise the buttons will be disabled.

Selecting Update Now will immediately start the update job and displays the following notification.

NOTICE

The valid range for the interval is between 1 to 60 minutes.

Job status

The status of the firmware update can be seen in the Latest Job Status column.

In addition, the Job Status page allows the user to view the status of the started job.

Compatible IED-OS versions

The creator of the IED-OS version specifies which previous IED-OS versions are compatibale with the newest version. Only compatible versions can be updated to the new IED-OS version and only these versions are available from the Available Version drop-down list. For example, if your Edge Device has OS version 1.0.0 and the newest version that has been updated by the admin has version 1.1.1 but the creator of the OS version specifies that only IED-OS version 1.1.0 can update to this newer version, you will not be able to update the OS version. The OS version in the Available Version drop-down list is disabled in that case. When the admin synchronizes an IED-OS version with the IEM, without the creator having specified any compatible OS versions, all previous OS versions can be updated to the newest version.