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The Checksums calculator is an open source tool used in the following procedure and it is one of the many other tools available for customer use. Sonus Ribbon does not provide or distribute this tool for download. Sonus Ribbon makes no warranties on using this tool etc. |
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- Download all the files from the Ribbon Support Portal required for the SBC installation or upgrade. Refer to Downloading Software from Salesforcethe Ribbon Support Portal.
- Untar the firmware package to get the bmc5X00_v<Build_Number>-R0.rom file. Refer to the latest SBC Core release notes for information on the latest BMC package details.
Download the calculator application (.zip) file that matches the version of your computer operating system.
- Unzip the calculator application file to a folder in your local computer.
Launch the "Checksums calculator" application from this folder. (The Checksums "hash" calculator name is different depending on your operating system).
Note The following images are for example purposes only and may not reflect the most current release version.
Caption 0 Figure 1 Launching Hash Calculator Using the Checksums calculator, browse and select the Sonus
bmc5X00_xxxx.romfile (where xxxx is the file version).Caption 0 Figure 1 Browsing BMC rom file Select the "Hash function" md5.
Caption 0 Figure 1 Selecting md5 Function Click Calculate. This extracts the checksum from the .rom file. A hexadecimal value appears in the Checksum text box.
Caption 0 Figure 1 Calculating Checksum from ROM file Using a text editor, browse and open the bmc5X00_xxxx.rom.md5sum file (where xxxx is the file version). This file contains a hexadecimal checksum value.
Caption 0 Figure 1 Opening BMC md5sum in Notepad Copy and paste the contents of this file into the "Original checksum" box.
Caption 0 Figure 1 Copying and Pasting the checksum Click Compare.
Caption 0 Figure 1 Comparing Checksums
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