Nortel BPS2000 & Baystack 470

Question

Hello,

I have some problem to download config on BPS2000 and Baystack 470. The command "show run" dont exist.

How can i resolve this problem ?

The solution TFTP server + ASCII Downloader is easy to install ?

Thanks

rschroeder · Accepted Answer

Both the Nortel Bay BPS2K and the Nortel Bay 470 have CLI access available if they are running recent versions of code. I run BPS2K's at FW 3.6.0.6 and SW v3.2.1.05, and 470's at FW 3.6.07 and SW v3.7.2.13 or higher; CLI access and the "sho run" command are both available at these levels. Bay 470's have the option to run Menu or CLI as default. Although Menu is more intuitive for beginners, I run 470's with CLI as the default interface because works well with NCM. One note: Although I prefer to run SSH or SCP for all file transfers, due to the secure encryption provided, I have had poor results when NCM uses SSH to download configs from Bay 470's and BPS2K's. The sessions tend to end in a manner than the switch does not handle cleanly, and eventually the switches become unstable and cannot be accessed via SSH or telnet. The only correction for this is to reset the switch. The prevention is to configure NCM to use telnet or tftp instead of SSH or SCP for these two kinds of switches. The 470 NCM template is built to understand the 470's Menu, as you can see in the line below, that contains "EnterCLI". Note the "DownArrow" commands, that let NCM go through the menu until it hits the Command Line option. The BPS2K script I use does not have an option to use the older BPS2K versions that only offer Menu access: Good luck!