User`s guide

Performing Diagnostics 13 - 13

If you are distributing a conﬁguration, examine the parts of the unit’s

conﬁguration that will be distributed by executing the command “conﬁg-

uration dump distributable standard”.

The control option controls how the remote units respond to your

request to send them a conﬁguration or ﬁrmware. Values may be set to:

n None: The unit will never respond and cannot be loaded by

another unit using the distribute command.

n Any: The unit will always respond. It is up to the distributing

unit to determine whether to load the local unit.

n Newer: The unit will only respond if the version of ﬁrmware

being distributed has a larger version number than the code cur-

rently running. This selection only applies to ﬁrmware down-

loads. For conﬁguration downloads this is equivalent to “any”.

n None of the Above: It is interpreted as a password that must

have been entered by the operator of the unit doing the distribu-

tion. The local unit will not respond to any distributions that do

not supply this password.

If the distribution is password protected, only those units that have the

same password conﬁgured into the “rcv_distribute” parameter will

accept the distribution. In this way you may protect your units from

unwanted loads. The password may also be used to divide the units into

code load groups so the loads to one group will not affect the other

groups.

If the distribution is done without a password, the load will be ignored

by remote units with a conﬁgured password. If the remote unit does not

have a password and ﬁrmware is being distributed, it will still accept the

load based on the version number and code checksum.

1. Select the distribute option. Select whether you want a password

protected distribution.

Enter one of [none, a password of at most 8 characters] :

2. Select whether you wish to distribute the ﬁrmware or the conﬁgura-

tion

Enter one of [firmware, config] : firmware