User Manual

Perform Maintenance Tasks
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Insight Managed 28-Port and 52-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Cloud Switches
image. This is a safety feature for faults occurring during the boot upgrade process.
The default setting is Software.
• Text Configuration. A text-based configuration file enables you to edit a configured
text file (startup-config) offline as needed. The most common usage of
text-based configuration is to upload a working configuration from a device, edit it
offline to personalize it for another similar device (for example, change the device
name, serial number, IP address), and download it to that device.
• SSH-1 RSA Key File. SSH-1 Rivest-Shamir-Adelman (RSA) Key file.
• SSH-2 RSA Key PEM File. SSH-2 Rivest-Shamir-Adelman (RSA) Key File (PEM
Encoded).
• SSH-2 DSA Key PEM File. SSH-2 Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) Key File (PEM
Encoded).
• SSL Trusted Root Certificate PEM File. SSL Trusted Root Certificate File (PEM
Encoded).
• SSL Server Certificate PEM File. SSL Server Certificate File (PEM Encoded).
• SSL DH Weak Encryption Parameter PEM File. SSL Diffie-Hellman Weak
Encryption Parameter File (PEM Encoded).
• SSL DH Strong Encryption Parameter PEM File. SSL Diffie-Hellman Strong
Encryption Parameter File (PEM Encoded).
7. If the selection from the File Type menu is Software, the Image Name menu is displayed
and you must select the software image that must be downloaded to the switch:
• image1. Select image1 to download image1.
• image2. Select image2 to download image2.
Note: We recommended that you do not overwrite the active image. If you do
so, the switch displays a warning that you are trying to overwrite the
active image.
8. Next to Select File, click the Browse button and locate the file that you want to download.
The file name can contain up to 80 characters.
9. Click the Apply button.
The file transfer begins.
The page displays information about the progress of the file transfer. The page refreshes
automatically when the file transfer completes (or if it fails).
Note: After a file transfer is started, wait until the page refreshes. When the
page refreshes, the option to select a file is no longer available,
indicating that the file transfer is complete.
To activate a software image that you downloaded to the switch, see Manage Software
Images on page 350.