Using Tftp To Download The Configuration; Synchronizing Msms - Extreme Networks ExtremeWare XOS Guide Manual

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Where the following is true:
—Is the host name of the TFTP server
●
host-name
—Is the IP address of the TFTP server
●
ip_address
—Puts the specified file from the local host and copies it to the TFTP server
●
-p
—Specifies the name of the configuration file that you want to save to the TFTP
●
-l <local_file>
server
If you upload a configuration file and see the following message:
Error: No such file or directory
Check to make sure that you entered the filename correctly, including the .cfg extension, and that you
entered the correct host name or IP address for the TFTP server.

Using TFTP to Download the Configuration

You can download previously saved XML formatted XOS configuration files from a TFTP host to the
switch to modify the switch configuration. To download the configuration, use the following command:
tftp [<host-name> | <ip_address>] -g -r <remote_file>
Where the following is true:
—Is the host name of the TFTP server
●
host-name
—Is the IP address of the TFTP server
●
ip_address
—Gets the specified file from the TFTP server and copies it to the local host
●
-g
—Specifies the name of the configuration file that you want to retrieve from the
●
-r <remote_file>
TFTP server
If you download a configuration file and see the following message:
Error: Transfer timed out
Check to make sure that you entered the filename correctly, including the .cfg extension, and that you
entered the correct host name or IP address for the TFTP server.
Configurations are downloaded and saved into the switch nonvolatile memory. The configuration is
applied after you reboot the switch.
If the configuration currently running in the switch does not match the configuration that the switch
used when it originally booted, an asterisk (*) appears before the command line prompt when using the
CLI.

Synchronizing MSMs

On a dual MSM system, you can take the primary MSM configurations and images and replicate them
on the backup MSM using the following command:
synchronize
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