Comments on: Discussion forums anyone?

By: José Mendes

José Mendes — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:29:46 +0000

Hello!! Thank tou for the quick response!!

The thig is that in our network, we want no backup all switches configurations through ESM. But some switches seem to have problems when uploading the configurations is ascii format…
I Think Some of them don’t support the automatic backup in ascii and we can only receive the backup on the TFTP in binary format.
So there is no way to see the binary configuration files in ascii form, right?

Thank you!

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:45:44 +0000

Hi Mendes,

There is no tool available (that I’m aware of) that will parse a binary configuration file for the Avaya/Nortel Ethernet Switches.

You realize that you can use the Ascii Configuration Generator (ACG) to get an ASCII representation of the current configuration correct?

The only way that I know would be to restore the binary configuration to a switch and then issue a “show running-configuration” from that switch.

Please use the discussion forums for any additional questions;
http://forums.networkinfrastructure.info/nortel-ethernet-switching/

Good Luck!

By: José Mendes

José Mendes — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:55:22 +0000

Hello!! This is Mendes from Portugal!

I’d like to make you a simple question, if you could please respond:

I’d like to know if there is a way to open binary switches backup’s as if they were ascii backups (to see the command lines like in ascii case).

Could tou please help me?

Thank you!!

By: Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:39:37 +0000

I like svl0r’s idea about structuring it as a wiki….Michael, does your web host support this?

By: svl0r

svl0r — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:25:49 +0000

Michael,

I agree also. We don’t know how long Nortel will last.

Let’s just create our own.

By: Liam Burke

Liam Burke — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:29:01 +0000

Why not use a content manger with integrated forum, like mkportal and smf? I use this setup on a number of websites for it’s ease of update etc etc, and they end up pretty much self-running. I’ve already been using some of you very useful tips from the blog, Roll on the forum!

Cheers,
Liam

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:58:41 +0000

It’s an option to be sure, however, I have some concerns. I can’t be sure that those forums will be there in six months. And if they disappear so does the wealth of knowledge that might have been accumulated and the effort put forth to build that knowledge. Nortel was fairly late with the idea of opening their discussion forums so what’s to guarantee their existence? From an editorial perspective I’d also be concerned about how Nortel might censor various unfavorable content. I haven’t seen it done at Nortel yet but I’ve seen it done at a lot of “upstanding” organizations.

Thanks for the feedback Mark!

By: Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:45:37 +0000

Why not leverage the nortel.com/community forums?

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:36:16 +0000

I use to subscribe to quite a few “listservers” in my early days. I don’t think I want to contribute to the SPAM problem. I personally believe RSS has brought us a long way from the old listserver days. Anyone remember BITNET?

Thanks for the feedback!

By: anand dhingra

anand dhingra — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:09:44 +0000

What about an email list… something like nsp list. http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/