APC Battery Management System - Manual (Page 152)

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USER’S GUIDE
Battery Management System
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How to Export Configuration Settings
Retrieving and Exporting the .ini file
Summary of the procedure
As an Administrator, you can retrieve a dynamically generated .ini file of a
Battery Management System Management Card’s current configuration
and export that file to another Battery Management System Management
Card or to multiple Battery Management System Management Cards.
1. You configure the Management Card on a Battery Management
System master controller to have the settings you want to export.
2. You retrieve the .ini file from that Management Card.
3. You then customize the .ini file (to change at least the TCP/IP settings)
and make a copy to export.
4. You use any of the file transfer protocols supported by the Battery
Management System to transfer the copied file to one or more
additional Management Cards. (To transfer the file to multiple
Management Cards simultaneously, write an FTP or SCP script that
repeats the steps for transferring the file to a single Management
Card.)
5. Each receiving Battery Management System Management Card stores
the file temporarily in its flash memory, uses it to reconfigure its own
Management Card settings, and then deletes the file.