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66UPS Network Management Card 2 User’s Guide

How to Export Configuration Settings

Retrieving and Exporting the .ini File

Summary of the procedure

An Administrator can retrieve the .ini file of a UPS Network Management Card 2 (NMC) and export it to

another NMC or to multiple NMCs. The steps are below, see details in the sections following.

1. Configure an NMC with the desired settings and export them, see “Creating and Importing settings

with the config file”.

2. Retrieve the .ini file from that

NMC.

3. Customize the file to change the TCP/IP settings at least.

4. Use a file transfer protocol supported by the

NMC to transfer a copy to one or more other NMCs. For a

transfer to multiple

NMCs, use an FTP or SCP script or the .ini file utility.

Each receiving

NMC uses the file to reconfigure its own settings and then deletes it.

Contents of the .ini file

The config.ini file you retrieve from an NMC contains the following:

• section headings and keywords (only those supported for the particular UPS/ NMC device from which

you retrieve the file): Section headings are category names enclosed in brackets ([ ]). Keywords,

under each section heading, are labels describing specific

NMC settings. Each keyword is followed by

an equals sign and a value (either the default or a configured value).

• The

Override keyword: With its default value, this keyword prevents the exporting of one or more

keywords and their device-specific values. For example, in the

[NetworkTCP/IP] section, the default

value for

Override (the MAC address of the NMC) blocks the exporting of values for the SystemIP,

SubnetMask, DefaultGateway, and BootMode.

Detailed procedures

Retrieving. To set up and retrieve an .ini file to export:

1. If possible, use the interface of an NMC to configure it with the settings to export. (Directly editing the

.ini file risks introducing errors).

2. To use FTP to retrieve config.ini from the configured

NMC:

a. Open a connection to the

NMC, using its IP address:

ftp> open ip_address

b. Log on using the Administrator user name and password.

c. Retrieve the config.ini file containing the

NMC’s settings:

ftp> get config.ini

The file is written to the folder from which you launched FTP.

To retrieve configuration settings from multiple

NMCs and export them to other NMCs, see Release

Notes: ini File Utility, version 2.0, available on the Network Management Card Utility CD and at

www.apc.com. Or see it in the KBase, http://www.apc.com/site/support/index.cfm/faq/index.cfm.

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