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Configuration File – Generate Redundant Configuration

You can simultaneously configure multiple device's to back up one another. You can use the main device's configuration to automatically produce the backup device's configuration, or vice versa. Also, you can configure mutually redundant devices. After you create the configuration files, you must upload them to the appopriate device. Use the device that contains the existing configuration file to create the new configuration file.

You can review a description of any error and warning messages you receive during the generation.

To create backup device configuration using main device configuration:

  1. From the File menu, point at Configure File and choose General Redundant Configuration.
    The General Redundant Configuration window opens.
  2. In the General Redundant Configuration window, select Main Device to Backup Device.
  3. Click .
    The Main to Backup Convert window opens.
  4. In the Source File field, enter the name of the Main Device configuration file.
    Optionally, click Browse to locate the file.
  5. In the Target File field, enter the name of the Backup Device configuration file.
  6. Select a Source IP Interface on the Main Device.
  7. Click .
    The Main to Backup Table Edit window opens.
  8. In the Destination IP Address field of the Main to Backup Table Edit window, enter an IP address on the Backup Device.
    Each Destination IP Address must be on the same subnet as the Source IP Interface it backs up.
  9. Click .
    The Main to Backup Table Edit window closes.
  10. Repeat steps 6-9 for each Source IP Interface on the Main Device you wish to backup.
    The IP Addresses entered here comprise the devices' redundancy table.
  11. In the Main to Backup Convert window, click .
    The configuration file for the Backup Device is made.

To create main device configuration using backup device configuration:

  1. From the File menu, point at Configure File and choose General Redundant Configuration.
    The General Redundant Configuration window opens.
  2. In the General Redundant Configuration window, select Backup Device to Main Device.
  3. Click .
    The Backup to Main Convert window opens.
  4. In the Source File field, enter the name of the Backup Device configuration file.
    Optionally, click Browse to locate the file.
  5. In the Target File field, enter the name of the Main Device configuration file.
  6. Click .
    The configuration file for the Main Device is made.

To create mutual redundancy configuration files (available in WSD, WSD-DS, and WSD-NP only):

  1. From the File menu, point at Configure File and choose General Redundant Configuration.
    The General Redundant Configuration window opens.
  2. In the General Redundant Configuration window, select Mutual Device.
  3. Click .
    The Mutual CDB Convert window opens.
  4. In the Source File field, enter the name of the existing configuration file.
    Optionally, click Browse to locate the file.
  5. In the Target File field, enter the name of the configuration file to be made.
  6. Click .
    The configuration files are made.