Extreme Networks EPICenter 6.0, Reference Manual

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Configuration Manager
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To upload device configurations to EPICenter, do the following:
1 Select a device group or All Devices from the drop-down menu in the Device Group field.
2 From the Available Devices list, select the devices from which you want to set an upload schedule,
and click Add to add them to the Devices for Upload list. Click Add All to add all the devices in
the Available Devices list.
3 Specify where the uploaded information should be stored.
To store the files in the EPICenter default
configs
directory, select Archive to Default Location . To
specify your own location, select Archive to .
In either case, you can designate these configuration files as the baseline files for the selected devices
by checking the
Baseline checkbox.
NOTE
If you have reconfigured your TFTP root directory (see “Configuring the TFTP Server” on page 170 ), the configs
subdirectory will be found directly below your TFTP root directory.
4 You can change the location (relative to the TFTP root’s
configs
subdirectory) and file naming
convention used to store your uploaded files. The location and naming structure will be of the form:
< tftp_root >\configs\< File_Location >\< File Name >_< FileName_Trailer >.txt
(or
.zip
)
●
To change the File Location , type the path you want EPICenter to create under the
<tftp_root>\configs\
●
To have EPICenter append a text trailer to the file names it creates, enter the trailer string in the
FileName Trailer field.
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By default, EPICenter saves configuration files using file names created from the device name, IP
address, and the time at which the upload was performed: <
IP Address >_< Time >.txt
.
In addition to appending some trailer text, you can change the format of the file name. The IP
Baseline Check this option to designate the uploaded Configuration files as the baseline files for the
selected devices. If this option is checked, the file is placed in a baseline subdirectory:
< tftp_root >\baseline\< IP_address >.txt
Archive to: Select this to specify your own directory structure and file naming convention relative to the
TFTP root’s
configs
subdirectory. The structure will be of the form:
< tftp_root >\configs\< File_Location> \< IP_address>_<FileName_Trailer >.txt
or
<tftp_root> \configs\< File_Location> \< IP_address>_<FileName_Trailer >.zip
where
<File_Location>
is the subdirectory you specify in the File Location field, and
<FileName_Trailer>
is the string you specify in the FileName Trailer field.
File Location: Specify the
<File_Location>
path where the files should be stored, starting from the
configs
subdirectory. This field is available only when the Archive To option is selected.
• Do not include
<tftp_root> \configs\
as part of the path; just include the remaining
path.
FileName Trailer: Specify a string to be appended to the regular file name format to create a file name. This
field is available only when the
Archive To option is selected.
For example, if you specify a file name trailer of “week_8_backup” then the filename for the
device, assuming the default file name format, would be
< IP Address >_< Timestamp >_week_8_backup.txt.
Configuration
information saved at: Shows the directory path where configuration information will be saved, and the current file
name format, as specified using the
Configure Upload File Name Format dialog. See “Changing
the Configuration Filename Format” on page 151 for details.