Procurve 2650, how to copy configuration from switch to switch?

[esantos999]

Hi,

I have a new customer, an Hotel, that have a Switch Procurve 2650 on each of the 8 floors. Yesterday the switch on floor 1 went fault, all the lights on including fault. I phone HP support and they sent me another switch for replace.

I went to floor 2, connect my laptop to the serial port, and using Hyperterminal runned the following command: copy startup-config xmodem pc, then saved the file for my desktop (config.swi).

I then opened the file with notepad and changed the hostname for floor 1, and the IP for vlan 1 "default".

Went down to floor 1, connect the serial cable and once again with Hyperterminal tried to send the previous config file with the comand: copy xmodem startup-config pc. 

After 2 seconds from sending the file I get an error message on the switch console: Transfer aborted, wrong file. What could be wrong?

Should this be the correct procedure to copy the configuration from one switch to another one?

I have the file that I first copy from the switch on floor 2 if needed.

Regards,

Edgar Santos

[Fredrik Lönnman · Accepted solution]

Just open the configuration in notepad and paste it through hyperterminal.

[esantos999]

What I final did was typed every comand in the configuration file. I have 4 vlan, but now I cannot get any IP from any vlan port. Every switch on each floor are connect on port 49 with fiber to the core switch. Could I have the tansceptor on port 49 broken?

Regards,

Edgar Santos

[Fredrik Lönnman]

Could be. Sure the config is right? Do you see any mac adresses from the upstream switch?

[esantos999]

I belive it is, since the other seven switch on each floor work right. Sorry for my newbie question, but how can I check the MAC addresses? 

[Fredrik Lönnman]

'show mac-address'

[esantos999]

Hi,

I ran the 'sh mac-address' and I could see the other mac's. After I run through the menu of the switch on floor 03 I find out that the Vlan for port 49 (gbic) was different from the configuration of the switch on floor 01. I should have all the vlan tagged to port 49, which after I did that put the switch comunicating with every vlan, and of course I could access the internet and internal network.

Thanks for your time and help.

P.S. could you please check the following startup-config that i copied from the switch in floor 03 that is running OK, but I could not copy to the switch in floor 01 (after I change the IP on the file pointing to the IP of the switch in floor 01)?

hostname "SW-Piso_03"
snmp-server community "public" Unrestricted
snmp-server host 10.0.2.15 "public"
vlan 1
 name "DEFAULT"
 untagged 50
 ip address 10.1.0.6 255.255.255.0
 tagged 49 
 no untagged 1-48
exit
vlan 2
 name "ADM"
 untagged 35-36
 tagged 49-50
exit
vlan 3
 name "Telefones"
 tagged 49-50
 voice
exit
vlan 5
 name "Clientes"
 untagged 1-34
 tagged 49-50
exit
vlan 4
 name "VideoVig"
 untagged 37-48
 tagged 49-50
exit
management-vlan 1

ip ssh
password manager
password operator

[Fredrik Lönnman]

Glad you worked it out! I see no problem in the config, you should be able to paste it without problem. I have never copied configurations via xmodem so I don't know why that didn't work.