3Com CommWorks 5210 - Manual (Page 43)

Saving and Restoring Configurations 43
Saving and Restoring
Configurations The Save configuration utility performs a discovery of the configuration of a
device and saves it to a file. After it is saved to a file, the Restore configuration
utility is used to restore the configuration to that device, or it can be used to
apply the file to other devices with similar components.
You can initiate a device save or restore in any of the following ways:
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From the File menu of the IP Telephony Manager Console
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From your network management platform (HP OpenView). For information
on how to save and restore a device from your network management
platform, refer to your network management User Guide.
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From the UNIX command line. For information on saving and restoring
operations from the command line, refer to Appendix B, Command Line
Interface
There are four ways to save configurations:
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Saving a Chassis Configuration to NVRAM —The Media Gateway
configuration can be saved to a file on the network.
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Component Save to NVRAM —Most components contain their own
nonvolatile read access memory (NVRAM). The Media Gateway’s current
configuration can be saved to its NVRAM and later retrieved through a
direct command or by resetting the component.
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NMC Save Chassis to NVRAM —An entire device’s configuration can be
saved to the NMC NVRAM.
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Saving Chassis Configurations from CFM —This feature lets you save the
configurations of every component of a device to a file (for example, the
configuration of all the cards and channels in a chassis, and the servers).
There are two ways to restore the configurations:
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Restoring a Chassis Configuration from NVRAM —An entire device's
configuration can be restored from a file on the network.
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Restoring Chassis Configurations from CFM —This feature lets you
restore the configurations of every component of a device from a file (for
example, the configuration of all the cards and channels in a chassis and
the servers). The device configuration can be restored to that device, or
applied to other devices with similar components.
Saving a Chassis
Configuration to
NVRAM
Use the following procedure to save a Media Gateway chassis configuration to
NVRAM using the IP Telephony Manager.
1 From the IP Telephony Manager Console window, select File menu, and click
Save Chassis NVRAM.
The Save Chassis NVRAM dialog box appears.