APC Battery Management System Retrieving and Exporting the .ini file, Summary of the procedure

Battery Management System

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How to Export Configuration Settings

Retrieving and Exporting the .ini file

Summary of the procedure

As an Administrator, you can retrieve a dynamically generated .ini file of a Battery Management System Management Card’s current configuration and export that file to another Battery Management System Management Card or to multiple Battery Management System Management Cards.

1.You configure the Management Card on a Battery Management System master controller to have the settings you want to export.

2.You retrieve the .ini file from that Management Card.

3.You then customize the .ini file (to change at least the TCP/IP settings) and make a copy to export.

4.You use any of the file transfer protocols supported by the Battery Management System to transfer the copied file to one or more additional Management Cards. (To transfer the file to multiple Management Cards simultaneously, write an FTP or SCP script that repeats the steps for transferring the file to a single Management Card.)

5.Each receiving Battery Management System Management Card stores the file temporarily in its flash memory, uses it to reconfigure its own Management Card settings, and then deletes the file.

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