Backup Procurve-Config via SNMP?

[Peter Escher]

Hi,

is it possible to get the complete configuration of a procurve-switch via SNMP? or is there a better way to backup the config via script/automatic?

Regards,
Oliver

[Les Ligetfalvy]

PCM will do it for you. If you wanted to use a scripted telnet, you could go that route as well.

[Peter Escher]

PCM? sorry, I dont know what you mean :)

[Les Ligetfalvy]

PCM = ProCurve Manager, a free poor cousin to PCM+. I think it ships on CD with every switch you buy.
http://www.hp.com/rnd/software/network_management.htm

[Peter Escher]

Hm, this is a Windows-Application - we dont use Windows in our production environment. Is there another way to get the switch-config?

But one question: is it possible to get the configs automatic via PCM?

Regards,
Peter

[Mohamed Hamedi]

hi Peter,

If i remember correctly it is not possible to pull the config file via SNMP. The MIBs are designed to do this, but i think this feature has been disabled.

Unless this has been changed in the latest firmware builds, your option is to create a script to telnet and send the config to your tftp server.

[Mohamed Hamedi]

On the PCM question, yes PCM can be scheduled to download the config files.

[Les Ligetfalvy]

Peter,
I run PCM+ on an XP box so for me, I have the configs automatically collected from all the switches. I can copy/paste the config to another switch using either PCM or TelNet/XMODEM/TFTP.

I played around with a scriptable telnet program but it lacked some features that I require to auto-genterate filenames that incude the IP and date, so I ended up using AutoIT and HyperTerm but those too are WIntel based.

You did not mention what platform you are using, only that it is not WIntel. I know there is the Perl::TelNet module so if you are proficient in Perl and it runs on your platform, you should be able to cobble together a script.

I am sure there are other NMS apps as well that run on non-WIntel to do the job that are either free or worth the money.

[Peter Escher]

We use Gentoo Linux - thx for your help!

Best regards,
Peter

[Regnar Bang Lyngsø_2]

We use Rancid.

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