Transferring Switch Configurations - HP ProCurve series 2500 Management And Configuration Manual

Transferring an Operating System or Startup Configuration File

Transferring Switch Configurations

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If an error occurs in which normal switch operation cannot be restored, the
switch automatically reboots itself. In this case, an appropriate message is
displayed in the copyright screen that appears after the switch reboots.

Transferring Switch Configurations

Transfer Features
Feature
use TFTP to copy a configuration
from a remote host to the startup-
config file
use TFTP to copy the startup-
config file to a remote host
use Xmodem to copy a
configuration from a serially
connected host to the startup-
config file
Use Xmodem to copy the startup-
config file to a serially connected
host
Using the CLI commands described in this section, you can copy switch
configurations to and from a switch.
TFTP: Retrieving a Configuration from a Remote Host.
Syntax:
This command copies a configuration from a remote host to the startup-config
file in the switch. (See appendix C, "Switch Memory and Configuration" for
information on the startup-config file.)
For example, to download a configuration file named sw2512 in the configs
directory on drive "d" in a remote host having an IP address of 13.28.227.105:
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Another console session (through either a direct connection to a terminal
device or through Telnet) was already running when you started the
session in which the download was attempted.
copy tftp startup-config <ip-address> <remote-file>
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