Question about saving logfile and configfile

Hello,

We have a switch-environment. A few MDS-9509-switches, a lot MDS-9140.
We want to save and transfer the start/up config and logfiles
automatically. I read in the manual about the command scheduler and ftp
and so on.

However, in the company it is not allowed to use FTP or TFTP, but we
can use SCP or SFTP. To set up SCP or SFTP on the switches to
automatically transfer the files looks difficult, to SCP the files to a
central computer.

Now I´m wondering how other companies has automated this process.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Hans

Hans wrote:
Hello,

We have a switch-environment. A few MDS-9509-switches, a lot MDS-9140.
We want to save and transfer the start/up config and logfiles
automatically. I read in the manual about the command scheduler and ftp
and so on.

However, in the company it is not allowed to use FTP or TFTP, but we
can use SCP or SFTP. To set up SCP or SFTP on the switches to
automatically transfer the files looks difficult, to SCP the files to a
central computer.

Now I´m wondering how other companies has automated this process.


We go the other way around and initiate the copy from the server where
we want the backups stored. We put an system-operator level ID on each
MDS switch with a public SSH key. Then on a host with the appropriate
private key, a script runs every night that basically does something like:

ssh "show running-config" switch.name.config

You could run a number of commands this way, or run a script on the
switches themselves (run-script bootflash:blagh.script). It works
pretty well for us.