Install & upgrade

The “Install & Upgrade ISO” can be used for either a full clean installation, or an upgrade of an existing installation. An upgrade of the OS on a running system only takes a few minutes to complete.

 

 

To upgrade an existing system with the “Install & Upgrade ISO”:

  1. Download the image to your PC
  2. Login to your AKIPS server as admin
  3. Go to the Admin -> System -> Update menu
  4. Choose the image to upload
  5. Click Start Upgrade

Version 26.4   25th June 2026

  1. Upgraded the operating system to FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p6:
  2. Updated third-party packages.
  3. Fixed slowness when loading splash screen.
  4. Added support for Huawei devices in TOS Discovery.
  5. Enforced a minimum password length of 15 characters for new and changed passwords.
  6. Improved performance of the Interface and Interface Graph Reporters.
  7. Fixed a variety of places where unsanitised HTML could be displayed.
  8. Fixed an issue where Switch Port Mapper History may incorrectly say ‘unknown vendor’.
  9. Added/updated compiled MIBs:
    • Avtech Room Alert 32E
    • Cisco Optical

Minimum requirements

VM Deployment
  • Commercial grade VM (e.g. VMware)
  • Dedicated CPU cores
  • Sufficient RAM (50% free)
  • SAN with thick provisioned preallocated storage

 

Physical / Bare Metal
  • Off the shelf server (e.g. Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, etc)
  • Sufficient RAM (50% free)
  • RAID 1 or 10

 

Network size
Minimum platform

Small

  • 50,000 interfaces
  • Virtual Machine
  • 2+ CPU Cores
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 200 GB disk space

Medium

  • 100,000 interfaces
  • Virtual Machine
  • 4+ CPU Cores
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 500 GB disk space

Large

  • 250,000 interfaces
  • Virtual Machine
  • 8+ CPU Cores
  • 32 GB RAM
  • 1 TB disk space

Download​

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