Has anyone done any work in amending the existing templates for Nortel switches?
I ask as I am having issues with up/downloading of Nortel configurations, in particular for a 460-24T-PWR. I looked at the template and was concerned it was trying to carry out cisco syntax commands which was confirmed when running session tracing I found that for an upload, the process logged into the switch, entered into CLI and did this;
copy tftp running-config address x.x.x.x filename x.config
Whereas for Nortel it should do this;
copy tftp config address x.x.x.x filename x.config
In diagnosing the template I changed the following variables to just 'config' instead of their cisco counterparts;
<Command Name="Startup" Value="config"/>
<Command Name="Running" Value="running-config"/>
This amended the command to carry out the correct process in CLI, however the resulting configuration is now corrupted (unable to view it) can anyone assist on this?
Also, the main question I have is how come these are designated Nortel Device Command Templates, but have cisco commands in them? (or am I missing something here?!)
LATEST UPDATE
I have now noticed what is happening;
When carrying out a copy command to download a config from a Nortel switch CLI you have options;
tftp, config and more importantly running-config = this is a config using cli options, needed for NCM as you can view the config in the correct format
However if you want to upload a config from a tftp server, you can use 'copy tftp' but the only option is 'config' which is a different format to running-config as in it is not viewable in NCM which negates the chance to make changes etc
