ZyXEL Communications OMC-2301, User Manual

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Chapter 14 Maintenance
OMC-2301 User’s Guide
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If your (T)FTP client does not allow you to have a destination filename different than the
source, you will need to rename them as the OMC only recognizes “config” and “ras”. Be sure
you keep unaltered copies of both files for later use.
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Be sure to upload the correct model firmware as uploading the wrong model
firmware may damage your device.
14.10.2 FTP Command Line Procedure
1 Launch the FTP client on your computer.
2
Enter
open
, followed by a space and the IP address of your OMC.
3 Press [ENTER] when prompted for a username.
4
Enter your password as requested (the default is “1234”).
5 Enter
bin
to set transfer mode to binary.
6
Use
put
to transfer files from the computer to the OMC, for example,
put
firmware.bin ras
transfers the firmware on your computer (firmware.bin) to the
OMC and renames it to “ras”. Similarly,
put config.cfg config
transfers the
configuration file on your computer (config.cfg) to the OMC and renames it to “config”.
Likewise
get config config.cfg
transfers the configuration file on the OMC to
your computer and renames it to “config.cfg”. See Table 40 on page 128 for more
information on filename conventions.
7 Enter
quit
to exit the ftp prompt.
14.10.3 GUI-based FTP Clients
The following table describes some of the commands that you may see in GUI-based FTP
clients.
General Commands for GUI-based FTP Clients
COMMAND DESCRIPTION
Host Address Enter the address of the host server.
Login Type Anonymous.
This is when a user I.D. and password is automatically supplied to the server
for anonymous access. Anonymous logins will work only if your ISP or service
administrator has enabled this option.
Normal.
The server requires a unique User ID and Password to login.
Transfer Type Transfer files in either ASCII (plain text format) or in binary mode.
Configuration and firmware files should be transferred in binary mode.
Initial Remote
Directory
Specify the default remote directory (path).
Initial Local Directory Specify the default local directory (path).