TFTP With Foundry Switches
I’ve had to look up this context enough that I figured I should put it out, TFTP is a fantastic way to keep your switches in order, and on our foundries it can become a huge issue when doing multiple setups (and their interface isn’t all that friendly)
To upload from the switch to the server, make sure TFTP is running on the server and create a file in the root directory, with permissions of 777 for world writing (or at least writable by the TFTP server). I do this on a controlled server.
SSH@yourfoundry.switch.com#copy running-config tftp IPofTFTPServer filename
SSH@yourfoundry.switch.com#Upload running-config to TFTP server done.
I then edit the file locally with VI, and then when I’m completed download it to the switch and restart.
To Download the file from the server to the switch’s startup-config:
SSH@yourfoundry.switch.com#copy tftp startup-config IPofTFTPServer filename