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4: Configuration Using XML

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Web browser—Web Manager can be used to import and export an XCR to the device server file system. It can also be used to import an XCR from an external source such as your local hard drive.

FTP—The device server FTP server can export and import XCRs when an FTP get or put command on the filename xport_pro.xcr is requested. On export (FTP get of xport_pro.xcr), the FTP server obtains the current XCR from Evolution OS™ and sends it as a file. On import (FTP put of xport_pro.xcr), the FTP server processes the file by sending it directly to the XML engine. In both cases the device server filesystem is not accessed. The file xport_pro.xcr is not read from or written to the file system. See FTP in the XPort Pro User Guide.

TFTP—TFTP supports XCR importing. Due to limited security capabilities of TFTP, the option is disabled by default.

Best Practices

You can import or export an entire XCR, or just a portion of it, by specifying the group name and/or group instances. In the examples below, import and export operations are performed from the CLI on the local filesystem and require a XCR on the local filesystem. The Web Manager provides the same functionality.

Caution: Using Microsoft Word to edit and save an XCR will change the format of the file and make it incompatible with Evolution OS. This is true even if the file is saved as Plain Text (.txt) or an XML Document (.xml). Notepad, a third party text editor, or a specialized XML editor should be used instead.

Importing

The following syntax can be used to import configurations from a file:

xcr import <file>

xcr import <file> <groups and/or group:instances>

The first line imports all groups specified in the XML config record named in <file>. Any filename is valid, and the file name and extension are not important.

Caution: The filename xport_pro.xcr is not acceptable, because performing a FTP get on that name produces the current configuration and does not perform an FTP from the filesystem. Also, the filename xport_pro.xsr is not acceptable, because performing an FTP get on that name produces the current status and does not get anything from the filesystem.

In the second line:

Instance follows group with a colon (see the third example on the next page).

Multiple groups are separated with a comma.

Any white space requires the list of groups to be quoted.

Only the named groups get imported, even if the XCR contains additional XCR groups.

The following syntax can be used to export configurations to a file on the device server’s file system:

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