Overview

The eLux Image Administration Service (ELIAS) allows you to easily manage the firmware of devices running eLux. Default images such as recovery.idf contain the operating system and applications but can be modified by using ELIAS. ELIAS helps you create new image definition files (IDF) or modify the existing ones.

For an individual client image, you select exactly those software packages for your IDF you want to have installed on the devices' flash memory. An IDF is a structured package list defining all software packages for the operating system and applications.

Administrators can select all required software packages available in a container and define them in an IDF. Once created, an IDF can be used as target for a firmware recovery or a firmware update. After successful recovery or update to an individual IDF, the firmware image installed on a device is consistent with the image defined in the relevant IDF.

ELIAS is part of the Scout Enterprise Management Suite and may be installed as an optional component of it. For further information, see Installing Scout Enterprise Management Suite in the Installation guide.

 

ELIAS offers the following features:

• User-friendly graphical interface that allows you to easily create software images
• Easy management of device firmware by using the “container method”
• Software components can be activated/de-activated to optimize the use of available resources
• Image size bar to avoid exceeding flash size
• Automatic check of software dependencies
• Import feature to add the latest software versions
• Export feature to export a package along with its software dependency information
• Digital signatures to verify the originality of software packages and IDFs.
• Creating USB Recovery sticks or disk images containing an individual software image