Owner's Manual

File Servers 851
This form has the following fields:
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Name —A unique identifier for this configuration.
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Description— A text description of this file server
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Enabled —When you check this, NetConfig uses a non-weighted round robin of enabled FTP
servers to select the server used.
FTP Server
With the radio buttons, select FTP , or Secure FTP , and check whether you want TFTP Support .
When you create SFTP server(s), the following occurs when backing up, restoring, or deploying
configuration files and operating system images (provided the driver for the device selected
supports secure file copying):
1 If the driver supports secure file copying, the application determines whether a secure file
server is in the server list, first looking for one that matches the configured net mask value and
the network device's IP address. The application uses the first matching file server in the list.
2 If it cannot make a match based on mask value and device IP, the application determines
whether
any secure file servers are defined and uses the first listed FTP server.
3 If no secure file servers are defined, then the application uses the first listed FTP server.
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Hostame— DNS identifier for the FTP server. When you create a New FTP server, you can also
click the
Resolve button to the right of this field. This fills in the IP address field (below) with
the correct address for this hostname. The
Resolve button does not appear for existing servers
you open to edit.
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IP Address— The IP address of this server.
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Net Mask —Defaults to 255.255.255.0. The Net Mask helps find the closest external file server
for a device using a file server of this type. If this field is blank, then the application will not
consider this file server when it tries to find the best/closest external file server for the device
in question. Only valid net masks are accepted.
The audit panel displays a message when the application finds a file server with its closest
algorithm:
Determined Closest External File Server: <server name>/
<server ip>
.
If the application could not determine a closest file server, then it chooses one with a round
robin algorithm and the following audit message appears:
Retrived External File
Server: <server name>/<server ip>
.
This implies the following about File Management backup (both single and group
operations):
• The application always attempts to find the best/closest file server for the
device being backed up by retrieving all external file servers and matching the
device ip/file server ip/file server net mask. If the application finds more than
one it uses the first one found.