Release Notes: ESP-Install for Windows 2K/XP/2K3
Note: this version should only be installed on Windows and Windows-compatible x86 systems.
ESP-Install is a command line program for supported Windows systems that can be used to install, modify and remove ESP serial hubs that use the serial redirection connection method. By specifying a script file, you may streamline the process of installing multiple hubs. The program uses a series of commands (keywords and keyword/value pairs) to identify address information, assign logical COM ports to physical ports and specify other driver-related
information. You may also use this program to remove (uninstall) previously installed drivers for ESP serial hubs. A hub may be removed in the same script file that installs other ESP hubs. This allows you to update a drive without having to reboot the ESP hubs.
This application if for administrators who are familiar with Windows driver features and terminology.
Running ESP-Install There are two ways to run the ESP-Install program at the command prompt.
- When you type espinstall.exe at the command prompt with no parameters, a help screen will be displayed. You may then enter commands to install one hub at a time.
espinstall.exe
During this process, you may access help information by entering espinstall /help. You may generate a current list of port mappings by entering espinstall /list.
- To automate the installation process, you may create a script file that contains all the commands to install up to 100 ESP hubs, and then specify that filename when you start
the program.
espinstall.exe /text <filename>
The results of the ESP-Install commands are written to the files ESPsummary.log (if the requested operations completed successfully) and ESPinstall.log, which are located in the same subdirectory as ESPinstall.exe.
- 0 = the command(s) completed successfully
- 2 = the ESP-Install program could not communicate with the ESP hub (check the Ethernet cable connection)
- 3 = an ESP hub with the specified address is already installed
- 8 = an error occurred
You may also log additional information with the Debug and Windowdebug commands.
The ESP hubs do not have to be rebooted for changes to take effect.
Differences between release 4.2 and 4.3
- Do not have a firewall on when using esp-install.exe. Turn it off for esp-install and then back on after the installation. This will be fixed in a later version.
- Added SetupVDD.exe for the x86 version of esp-install. This allows DOS applications to work with Avocent/Equinox ESP serial hubs and SST PCI adapters.
- Fix for when esp-install is in a folder with spaces and/or there are spaces for the pathname/filename of the /TEXT parameter.
- Fixed so that esp-install works with Terminal Services installed.
- Fixed so that more than 10 ESP serial hubs can be installed.
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