APC Configuation Management

[Anonymous user]

Hi All,

I work in a company where we have recently installed 40+ Smart-UPS 750's all at remote sites, each one has a SNMP/Web management card and I would ideally like someway to record the configuation of each one, so that if a device has to be replaced, the replacement can be configured before attending the remote site using the same configuration.

I understand that the management card is accessable using FTP and it is possible to download a config.ini file for a perticular device. But is there an application that anyone knows of that can make this an automatic process?? The last thing i want todo is log on to each device indivdually to back up their config.

We currently use a software package called Orion todo automate the same task on our remote routers, but that software package doesnt support getting configuations via FTP.

Any advice on how i can go about this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Simon

[voidstar_apc · Accepted solution]

There are many ways to automate the process. This is one way:

Download [curl from here|http://curl.netmirror.org/download.html] for your OS of choice. You want the binary package, not the source package.

Then, create a .bat or script file with lines like this:

curl ftp://apc:apc@192.168.1.100/config.ini > backup_192_168_1_100.ini
curl ftp://apc:apc@192.168.1.101/config.ini > backup_192_168_1_101.ini
curl ftp://apc:apc@192.168.1.102/config.ini > backup_192_168_1_102.ini
...

You can schedule the script file to run at certain times and I'm sure you could get fancier with timestamped logs and log rotation.