Examples The following is an example of the Create Support command when an FTP server is available on the workstation:

McDATA4GbSAN (admin) #> create support

Log Msg:[Creating the support file - this will take several seconds]

FTP the dump support file to another machine? (y/n): y

Enter IP Address of remote computer: 10.20.33.130

Login name: johndoe

Enter remote directory name: bin/support

Would you like to continue downloading support file? (y/n) [n]: y

Connected

to

10.20.33.130

(10.20.33.130).

220

localhost.localdomain

FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1-18) ready.

331

Password

required for

johndoe.

Password:

xxxxxxx

 

230 User johndoe logged in. cd bin/support

250 CWD command successful.

lcd /itasca/conf/images

Local directory now /itasca/conf/images

bin

200 Type set to I. put dump_support.tgz

local: dump_support.tgz remote: dump_support.tgz 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,20,33,130,232,133)

150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for dump_support.tgz.

226 Transfer complete.

43430 bytes sent in 0.292 secs (1.5e+02 Kbytes/sec) Remote system type is UNIX.

Using binary mode to transfer files.

221-You have transferred 43430 bytes in 1 files.

221-Total traffic for this session was 43888 bytes in 1 transfers. 221 Thank you for using the FTP service on localhost.localdomain.

The following is an example of the Create Support command and how to download the support file to your workstation. When prompted to send the support file to another machine, decline, then close the Telnet session. Open an FTP session on the switch and log in with the account name “images” and password “images”. Transfer the dump_support.tgz file in binary mode with the Get command.

McDATA4GbSAN (admin) #> create support

Log Msg:[Creating the support file - this will take several seconds] FTP the dump support file to another machine? (y/n): n

McDATA4GbSAN (admin) #> quit >ftp switch_ip_address

user: images

password: images

ftp>bin

ftp>get dump_support.tgz

xxxxxbytes sent in xx secs.

ftp>quit

The following is an example of the Create Certificate command:

McDATA4GbSAN (admin) #>

create

certificate

The current

date and

time is

day mon date hh:mm:ss UTC yyyy.

This is the

time used

to stamp onto the certificate.

Is the date

and time

correct? (y/n): [n] y

Certificate

generation successful.

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