SANRAD manual Network Interfaces, Downloading a V-Switch Configuration File, Ft download

Download the database file to the V-Switch before attaching it to the storage devices.

Downloading a V-Switch Configuration File

After replacing a failed V-Switch, you can download the replaced V- Switch database file from the tftp server to the new V-Switch. Unlike a standard V-Switch installation, do not connect the V-Switch to the storage devices before powering up. You first download the database file and then connect the V-Switch to the storage devices. This ensures that autodiscovery will not assign default aliases different from the replaced V- Switch to the discovered disks.

The V-Switch must be reset for the downloaded database to become operational.

Use the CLI command ft download to download a V-Switch database file from the local TFTP server after you have initialized the replacement V-Switch with an IP management address via LCD or Console.

Please refer to “Configuring the V-Switch 3000 Management Parameters via LCD,” page 48, and“Configuring the Management Console,” page 49, for more information on initializing your V-Switch before downloading the configuration file.

The download parameters are identical to the upload parameters.

ft download

You need to define three parameters to download a configuration file:

SWITCH	PARAMETER	DEFINITION	STATUS	EXAMPLE
-ip	IP ADDRESS	IP ADDRESS OF	MANDATORY	212.199.43.70
		TELNET STATION
		WHERE TFTP
		APPLICATION SITS
-fn	FILE NAME	COMPLETE PATH	MANDATORY	VSwitch/v1_9/
		AND NAME TO FILE		v1_9database
		LOCATION
-ft	FILE TYPE	FORMAT TO SAVE	OPTIONAL	db
		DATA IN	DEFAULT: DB
			(DATA BASE)

Example:

Download the file v1_9database as a database file from the tftp server at 212.199.43.70.

ft download –ip 212.199.43.70 –fn VSwitch/v1_9/ v1_9database –ft db

Network Interfaces

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