Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 188)

Chapter 10: File Downloads and Uploads
188 Section II: Advanced Operations
Downloading a System File
This section contains the following two procedures:
ˆ “Downloading a System File from a Local Management Session” on
page 190
ˆ “Downloading a System File from a Remote Management Session” on
page 193
Both procedures are used to download files into a switch’s file system.
One procedure downloads files from a local management using either
Xmodem or TFTP, and the other explains how to do it from a remote
management session using TFTP.
There are only two files that you are ever likely to download into a switch’s
file system:
ˆ Boot configuration file
ˆ CA certificate
You might have edited a boot configuration file at your management
workstation and want to download it onto a switch prior to designating it as
the active boot configuration file. Or, you might have obtained a CA
certificate for the switch so that you can add encryption to your web
browser management sessions.
Note that you can also use these procedures to store an AT-S63 image
file in the switch’s file system. However, placing an image file in the file
system does not make it the active image file on the switch, and it will take
up a large portion of the file system. To be active, the file must be stored in
the switch’s application block, which is a separate part of flash memory
from the file system. To download an AT-S63 image file directly to a
switch’s application block so that it functions as the active image file on the
unit, see “Downloading the AT-S63 Image File onto a Switch” on page 174
or “Uploading the AT-S63 Image File Switch to Switch” on page 182. If you
do load the image file into a switch’s file system, the only means of
transferring it into the application block is with the LOAD command in the
command line interface. An image file is about 2MB; it will take up
approximately a quarter of the 8MB of storage capacity of the switch’s file
system.
Guidelines
This section contains guidelines for downloading a file to the switch’s file
system.
These guidelines apply to both Xmodem and TFTP downloads.
ˆ You can use either Xmodem or TFTP to download files from a local
management session.