Knox E-FOTA On-Premises portable

Knox E-FOTA On-Premises provides a portable solution, which allows you to install Knox E-FOTA On-Premises on a laptop and bring it to your business sites. With this solution, you don’t have to install and maintain Knox E-FOTA On-Premises servers at each site. You can use one server to manage firmware for your entire device fleet, which may span across multiple business sites.

Currently, Knox E-FOTA On-Premises portable is only available as a Windows Hyper-V virtual machine package.

Prerequisites

• Enable Hyper-V
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 11
• Set up a network interface with IP address 192.168.10.10 on your laptop. This address should be accessible to your fleet of devices to download firmware updates.

Install and run Knox E-FOTA On-Premises portable

1. Download the compressed Knox E-FOTA On-Premises portable Hyper-V image and the support files.
2. From the support files, decompress the Knox E-FOTA licenseApp_pkg_win.zip file and run the Knox E-FOTA licenseApp reg.bat file as an administrator to install the license service.
3. From the support files, run the Knox E-FOTA Portable NW reg.bat file as an administrator to configure network settings.
4. Decompress the Hyper-V virtual machine image.
5. Import the virtual machine using Hyper-V Manager.
6. Run the virtual machine.

You can now access your Knox E-FOTA On-Premises portable server through its URL:

http://192.168.10.10:8080/admin

This URL is configured in Knox E-FOTA Portable NW reg.bat.