# Downloading help files

## Before you begin

- An available TFTP server—ensure that the TFTP path differs from the path you use to download switch software—or a USB mass storage device and switch equipped with a USB port.

| CAUTION
| Do not install EDM help files on PCMCIA or Flash.

## About this task

Use the following procedure to download help files.

## Procedure

1. To obtain EDM help files for the embedded element manager, do one of the following:

   - From the Navigation tree, double-click Help , click Support Portal and locate the help files for the appropriate product.

   - Go to the Avaya Web site http://www.avaya.com/support and locate the help files for the appropriate product.

   - Select the help file from the software CD ROM.

2. Do one of the following:

   - Download the help file to a TFTP server.

   - Download the help file to a USB mass storage device.

3. Unzip the help file in the TFTP server directory.