RuggedCom RS400 Capturing Configurations with XModem, Capturing Configurations with Tftp

Upgrading Firmware and Managing Configurations

14.2 Capturing Configurations

ROS™ provides a means to capture the configuration of the device in an ASCII formatted text file. The same file can be downloaded to the device at a later date in order to restore the device to its previous configuration. Different versions of configuration file can be compared using an ASCII text difference tool, in order to pinpoint configuration changes.

14.2.1 Capturing Configurations with XModem

Connect to the device, either through the RS232 port or through a Telnet connection. Press <CTRL S> to enter the shell. Enter the command “xmodem send config.csv<CR>”. Open the XModem utility in your terminal package and start an XModem receive to the desired local filename. Open the file to verify that it contains the appropriate configuration.

Note: You may wish to include date and node address/name information in the local filename.

14.2.2 Capturing Configurations with TFTP

Ping the device to be uploaded in order to ensure it is available. Perform a TFTP transfer from the device, specifying a remote filename of “config.csv” and a desired local filename. Most command line TFTP utilities would use syntax similar to “tftp hostname get config.csv local_file”.

Alternatively, sign-on to the product and use the CLI shell’s “tftp” command to send the configuration file to your TFTP server.

Open the file to verify that contains the appropriate configuration.

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