User`s guide

USER’S GUIDE

Network Management Card

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Detailed procedures

Retrieving. To set up and retrieve an .ini file to export:

1. If possible, use the interface of a Management Card to configure it with the

settings to export. Directly editing the .ini file risks introducing errors.

2. To use FTP to retrieve config.ini from the configured Management Card:

a. Open a connection to the Management Card, using its IP Address:

ftp> open ip_address

b. Log on using the Administrator user name and password.

c. Retrieve the config.ini file containing the Management Card’s settings:

ftp> get config.ini

The file is written to the folder from which you launched FTP.

Customizing. You must customize the file before you export it.

1. Use a text editor to customize the file.

• Section headings, keywords, and pre-defined values are not case-sensitive, but

string values that you define are case-sensitive.

• Use adjacent quotation marks to indicate no value. For example, LinkURL1=""

indicates that the URL is intentionally undefined.

• Enclose in quotation marks any values that contain leading or trailing spaces or

are already enclosed in quotation marks.

• To export scheduled events, configure the values directly in the .ini file.

• To export a system time with the greatest accuracy, if the receiving Management

Cards can access a Network Time Protocol server, configure enabled for

NTPEnable:

NTPEnable=enabled

To retrieve configuration settings from multiple Management Cards and export

them to other Management Cards, see Release Notes: ini File Utility, version

1.0, available on the APC Network Management Card Utility CD and at