CANOGA PERKINS N525 Ethernet Termination Service Unit - Manual (Page 31)

N525 Ethernet Termination Service Unit 3-13
Managing the N525
You can manage the hardware and the software for the N525, including communication access.
Configuring Methods for the N525
There are two ways to configuring the N525, manually using the VT-100 User Interface, and
using a configuration file download. Though SNMP commands are issued by a CanogaView or
your Management Platform and can be scripted, this is considered a Manual configuration since
each configurable parameters are individually sent.
Configuration Upload
As more features have been added to the N525, configuring the numerous features and settings
on the N525 manually has becoming more time consuming and onerous. Canoga Perkins
developed a Backup and Restore mechanism for the N525, able to generate, download, upload
and run configuration files. The configuration file naming convention is as follows:
N525xxxx.cfg
The “N525” is a string of four characters which corresponds to the Model Number, “xxxx” may
be zero to four characters in length and corresponds to a user defined field and “.cfg” is always
used as the file extension.
The configuration file MUST begin with a header that contains three variables, each of which is
a string of characters of finite length, as described here:
1. CfgFileName is a string that represents the configuration file name and extension (as in
the DOS file naming convention). The name must be of maximum 8 characters and the
extension is always “.cfg”, for a maximum total string length of 12 characters.
2. CfgFileBuiltWithFirmware is a string of 5 characters that represents the firmware level
(i.e., application code in the Active Bank) that was running when the configuration file
was built.
3. CfgFileUserComments is a string of 50 characters that the user may set to any string
desired. This variable contains information relevant to the user.
An example of the header as it would appear on a N525_001.cfg file is shown here:
### WARNING – DO NOT MODIFY THIS HEADER ###
CfgFileName = N525_001.cfg
CfgFileBuiltWithFirmware = 05.00
CfgFileUserComments =Canoga Perkins, Chatsworth, CA site.
############################################