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UPS Network Management Card 2 User’s Guide86
How to Export Configuration Settings
Retrieving and Exporting the .ini File
Summary of the procedure
An Administrator can retrieve the .ini file of a Network Management Card and export it to another
Management Card or to multiple Management Cards.
1. Configure a Management Card to have the settings you want to export.
2. Retrieve the .ini file from that Management Card.
3. Customize the file to change at least the TCP/IP settings.
4. Use a file transfer protocol supported by the Management Card to transfer a copy to one or more
other Management Cards. For a transfer to multiple Management Cards, use an FTP or SCP
script or the APC .ini file utility.
Each receiving Management Card uses the file to reconfigure its own settings and then deletes it.
Contents of the .ini file
The config.ini file you retrieve from a Management Card contains the following:
• section headings and keywords (only those supported for the device from which you retrieve the
file): Section headings are category names enclosed in brackets ([ ]). Keywords, under each
section heading, are labels describing specific Management Card settings. Each keyword is
followed by an equals sign and a value (either the default or a configured value).
• The
Override keyword: With its default value, this keyword prevents the exporting of one or
more keywords and their device-specific values. For example, in the
[NetworkTCP/IP] section,
the default value for
Override (the MAC address of the Management Card) blocks the exporting
of values for the
SystemIP, SubnetMask, DefaultGateway, and BootMode.
Detailed procedures
Retrieving. To set up and retrieve an .ini file to export:
1. If possible, use the interface of a Management Card to configure it with the settings to export.
Directly editing the .ini file risks introducing errors.
2. To use FTP to retrieve config.ini from the configured Management Card:
a. Open a connection to the Management Card, using its IP address:
ftp> open ip_address
b. Log on using the Administrator user name and password.
c. Retrieve the config.ini file containing the Management Card’s settings:
ftp> get config.ini
The file is written to the folder from which you launched FTP.
To retrieve configuration settings from multiple Management Cards and export them to other
Management Cards, see Release Notes: ini File Utility, version 1.0, available on the APC
Network Management Card Utility CD and at www.apc.com.