User's Manual

RuggedSwitch™ User Guide
Capturing Configurations
The RuggedSwitch™ provides a means to capture the configuration of the switch
in an ASCII formatted text file.
The same file can be downloaded to the switch at a later date in order to restore
the switch to its previous configuration.
Different versions of configuration file can be compared using an ASCII text
difference tool, in order to pinpoint configuration changes.
Capturing Configurations With XModem
Connect to the switch, either through the RS232 port or through a Telnet
connection. Press <CTRL S> to enter the shell. Enter the command “xmodem
send config.csv<CR>”. Open the XModem utility in your terminal package and
start an XModem receive to the desired local filename. Open the file to verify that
it contains the appropriate configuration.
Note: You may wish to include date and node address/name information in the local filename.
Capturing Configurations With TFTP
Ping the switch to be uploaded in order to ensure it is available. Perform a TFTP
transfer from the switch, specifying a remote filename of “config.csv” and a
desired local filename. Most command line TFTP utilities would use syntax similar
to “tftp hostname get config.csv local_file”.
Alternatively, sign-on to the product and use the CLI shell’s tftp command to send
the configuration file to your TFTP server.
Open the file to verify that contains the appropriate configuration.
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