Multimedia server intended to be installed on board an aircraft, electronic entertainment system comprising such a server, method for configuring software of such a server and associated computer program

A method for software configuration of a multimedia server aiming at being installed on board an aircraft and connected to at least one entertainment terminal installed on board the aircraft via an on-board local-area network, the multimedia server comprising at least one network switch card configured to manage communications with at least one network of the on-board local-area network and an external communications network, and at least one other electronic card selected from the group consisting of:

• a data storage card and a compute card, at least one network switch card further including a software configuration module;
• wherein the method is carried out by the software configuration module and includes the following steps:
• obtaining a list of software function(s) to be installed on at least one other electronic card;
• downloading, from an external electronic equipment, the one or more software functions from the list obtained;
• and
• providing the one or more corresponding downloaded software functions to each respective other electronic card,
• wherein each network switch card further includes a same software configuration module, and
• wherein several other electronic cards are network switch cards.