Huawei Quidway S6500 Series Operation Manual page 522

Operation Manual - System Management
Quidway S6500 Series Ethernet Switches
& write authority over the flash root directory on the PC. The IP address of a VLAN
interface on the switch is 1.1.1.1, and that of the PC is 2.2.2.2. The switch and PC are
reachable.
The switch application switch.app is stored on the PC. Using FTP, the PC can upload
the switch.app from the remote FTP server and download the vrpcfg.txt from the FTP
server for backup purpose.
II. Networking diagram
Switch Switch Switch
Figure 1-3 Networking for FTP configuration
III. Configuration procedure
1) Configure the switch
# Log into the switch (locally through the Console port or remotely using Telnet).
<Quidway>
# Start FTP function and set username, password and file directory.
[Quidway] ftp server enable
[Quidway] local-user switch
[Quidway-luser-switch] service-type ftp ftp-directory flash:
[Quidway-luser-switch] password simple hello
2) Run FTP client on the PC and establish FTP connection. Upload the switch.app to
the switch under the Flash directory and download the vrpcfg.txt from the switch.
FTP client is not shipped with the switch, so you need to buy it separately.
Caution:
If the free space of the flash memory is not enough, you need to first delete the existing
programs in the flash memory and then upload the new ones.
3) When the uploading is completed, initiate file upgrade on the switch.
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