Extreme Networks EPICenter Reference Manual page 150

Configuration Manager
Baseline
Archive to:
File Location:
FileName Trailer:
Configuration
information saved at:
To upload device configurations to EPICenter, do the following:
1 Select a device group or All Devices from the drop-down menu in the Device Group field.
2 From the Available Devices list, select the devices from which you want to set an upload schedule,
and click Add to add them to the Devices for Upload list. Click Add All to add all the devices in
the Available Devices list.
3 Specify where the uploaded information should be stored.
To store the files in the EPICenter default
specify your own location, select Archive to.
In either case, you can designate these configuration files as the baseline files for the selected devices
by checking the Baseline checkbox.
NOTE
If you have reconfigured your TFTP root directory (see
subdirectory will be found directly below your TFTP root directory.
4 You can change the location (relative to the TFTP root's
convention used to store your uploaded files. The location and naming structure will be of the form:
<tftp_root>\configs\<File_Location>\<File Name>_<FileName_Trailer>.txt
To change the File Location, type the path you want EPICenter to create under the
●
<tftp_root>\configs\
To have EPICenter append a text trailer to the file names it creates, enter the trailer string in the
●
FileName Trailer field.
By default, EPICenter saves configuration files using file names created from the device name, IP
●
address, and the time at which the upload was performed: <
In addition to appending some trailer text, you can change the format of the file name. The IP
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Check this option to designate the uploaded Configuration files as the baseline files for the
selected devices. If this option is checked, the file is placed in a baseline subdirectory:
<tftp_root>\baseline\<IP_address>.txt
Select this to specify your own directory structure and file naming convention relative to the
TFTP root's configs subdirectory. The structure will be of the form:
<tftp_root>\configs\<File_Location>\<IP_address>_<FileName_Trailer>.txt
or
<tftp_root>\configs\<File_Location>\<IP_address>_<FileName_Trailer>.zip
where <File_Location> is the subdirectory you specify in the File Location field, and
<FileName_Trailer> is the string you specify in the FileName Trailer field.
Specify the <File_Location> path where the files should be stored, starting from the
configs subdirectory. This field is available only when the Archive To option is selected.
• Do not include <tftp_root>\configs\ as part of the path; just include the remaining
path.
Specify a string to be appended to the regular file name format to create a file name. This
field is available only when the Archive To option is selected.
For example, if you specify a file name trailer of "week_8_backup" then the filename for the
device, assuming the default file name format, would be
<IP Address>_<Timestamp>_week_8_backup.txt.
Shows the directory path where configuration information will be saved, and the current file
name format, as specified using the Configure Upload File Name Format dialog. See
the Configuration Filename Format" on page 151 for details.
directory, select Archive to Default Location. To
configs
"Configuring the TFTP Server" on page
subdirectory) and file naming
configs
IP Address>_<Time>.txt
"Changing
170), the configs
(or )
.zip
.
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