Chapter 7 Managing Firmware and Configurations

Working with Configuration Files

 

Command

Purpose

Step 4

 

 

ip ftp username username

(Optional) Changes the default remote username.

Step 5

 

 

ip ftp password password

(Optional) Changes the default password.

Step 6

 

 

end

Returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Step 7

 

 

copy system:running-config

Using FTP, stores the WMIC running or startup

 

ftp:[[[//[username[:password]@]location]/directory]

configuration file to the specified location.

 

/filename]

 

 

or

 

 

copy nvram:startup-config

 

 

ftp:[[[//[username[:password]@]location]/directory]

 

 

/filename]

 

 

 

 

This example shows how to copy the running configuration file named ap2-confgto the netadmin1 directory on the remote host with an IP address of 172.16.101.101:

bridge# copy system:running-config ftp://netadmin1:mypass@172.16.101.101/ap2-confg

Write file ap2-confg on host 172.16.101.101?[confirm] Building configuration...[OK]

Connected to 172.16.101.101 bridge#

This example shows how to store a startup configuration file on a server by using FTP to copy the file:

bridge# configure terminal bridge(config)# ip ftp username netadmin2 bridge(config)# ip ftp password mypass bridge(config)# end

bridge# copy nvram:startup-config ftp: Remote host[]? 172.16.101.101

Name of configuration file to write [ap2-confg]? Write file ap2-confg on host 172.16.101.101?[confirm] ![OK]

Copying Configuration Files by Using RCP

The Remote Copy Protocol (RCP) provides another method of downloading, uploading, and copying configuration files between remote hosts and the WMIC. Unlike TFTP, which uses User Datagram Protocol (UDP), a connectionless protocol, RCP uses TCP, which is connection-oriented.

To use RCP to copy files, the server from or to which you will be copying files must support RCP. The RCP copy commands rely on the rsh server (or daemon) on the remote system. To copy files by using RCP, you do not need to create a server for file distribution as you do with TFTP. You only need to have access to a server that supports the remote shell (rsh). (Most UNIX systems support rsh.) Because you are copying a file from one place to another, you must have read permission on the source file and write permission on the destination file. If the destination file does not exist, RCP creates it for you.

The RCP requires a client to send a remote username with each RCP request to a server. When you copy a configuration file from the WMIC to a server, the Cisco IOS software sends the first valid username in this list:

The username specified in the copy command if a username is specified.

The username set by the ip rcmd remote-usernameusername global configuration command if the command is configured.

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