Switch management features
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Configuration File Download/Upload
The Configuration Management feature lets you store and retrieve the
configuration parameters of an Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series to a
TFTP server. This feature supports two different methods for managing
system configuration files:
•
Binary configuration file management
•
ASCII configuration file management
Requirements
The following requirements apply to the Configuration file feature:
•
The Configuration File feature can only be used to copy standalone
switch configuration parameters to other standalone switches.
•
A configuration file obtained from a standalone switch can only be used
to configure other standalone switches that have the same firmware
revision and model type as the donor standalone switch.
Table 8 "Parameters not saved to the configuration file" (page 73)
describes
configuration file parameter information.
Table 8
Parameters not saved to the configuration file
These parameters are not saved
In-Band Switch IP Address
In-Band Subnet Mask
Default Gateway
Configuration Image Filename
TFTP Server IP Address
Terminal settings (speed, width, length)
Binary configuration file
You can store the configuration parameters of a switch to a TFTP server
and retrieve the stored parameters to automatically configure a replacement
switch. Certain requirements apply when automatically configuring a switch
using this feature (see
"Requirements" (page 73)
). You can set up the file
on your TFTP server and set the filename read and write permission to
enabled before you can save the configuration parameters.
Although most configuration parameters are saved to the configuration file,
certain parameters are not saved (see
Table 8 "Parameters not saved to the
configuration file" (page 73)
).
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series
Overview — System Configuration
NN47215-500 (323162-B)
02.02
Standard
4.1
19 November 2007
Copyright © 2007, Nortel Networks
.
