Overview

Our new web-based ELIAS 18 front-end is platform-independent and easy to use. It helps administrators keep their firmware images up-to-date with the latest software packages, always with regard to compatibility between all packages and components.

Our eLux Image Administration Service (ELIAS) allows you to easily manage the firmware of devices running eLux. Firmware images contain the operating system and applications and can be modified by using ELIAS. ELIAS helps you create individual image definition files (IDF). An IDF is a structured package list defining all software packages for the operating system and applications that will be installed on the devices' flash memory. Once created, an IDF can be used as target for a firmware recovery or a firmware update. After a successful recovery installation or update to an individual IDF, the firmware image installed on the device is consistent with the image defined in the IDF.

For reasons of simplicity, in the following, we shall simply call an IDF image.

ELIAS ensures that all software packages required for an operational image are included, checks software dependencies and avoids version mismatches. Required packages are automatically identified and requested. You can even choose whether ELIAS should always provide the latest version of a specific software package and, at the same time, you need not worry about compatibility with other packages.

For the API documentation, see ELIAS API documentation.