automate 450/8100 backups & flash

[gillymonst]

Anyone have freeware or $$$ware that can be used to automate backups and flashing of an enterprise full of 450/24T switches and PP8000 chassis. Thanks

 

[jimbopalmer]

No but I have some cautions:
version 4.x (current is 4.2.0.22 I think) is much slower in telnet and Java Device Manager than version 3.x

Upgrading will cause two reboots, when a 450 reboots it tends to do odd thinks with the tagging on port 5, check your port 5's for discard untagged frames, usually you want it unchecked. Some switches in a stack may reboot correctly while others fail to.



I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[jimbopalmer]

Optivity Switch Manager 3.0 was released by Nortel in May and seems to do both automated upgrade, one switch after another, and capture of config files.el

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[andrelcosta]

You can use Opivity Switch Manager to download and save configs of all Nortel switches. There is a download demo in th Nortelnetworks website.

 

[fabianoboscatto]

Try to study autoexpect command in linux!
I use and it's free.