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Did you know ArubaOS-Switch supports SCP?  Using an external SCP client, config files and firmware can be copied to and from the switch.

 

Here's how it works:

 

To begin you'll need an external SCP client, for this example I used pscp, which is a putty-based windows client.  As pscp is windows-based, it needs to be run from the windows command line.  First, you will need to enable the following commands on the switch:

 

Switch(config)# ip ssh
Switch(config)# ip ssh filetransfer

After enabling the previous commands, you are then able to copy config files from the switch like so:

 

c:\pscp>pscp admin@10.5.8.4:/cfg/testcfg.cfg <directory to copy files>
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
admin@10.5.8.4's password:
testcfg.cfg               | 1 kB |   1.6 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%

You can copy files to the switch (default-config, startup-config, running-config only):

 

c:\pscp>pscp -scp <file to copy in pscp directory> admin@10.5.8.4:/cfg/default-config
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
admin@10.5.8.4's password:
testcfg2.cfg              | 1 kB |   1.6 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%

Finally, you can update the firmware on the switch:

 

c:\pscp>pscp -scp KB_16_07_0002.swi admin@10.5.8.4:/os/secondary
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
admin@10.5.8.4's password:
KB_16_07_0002.swi         | 32969 kB | 578.4 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%

Justin

 

 

 

More information about SCP you can find it in the "Files Transfer" chapter of the Management and Configuration Guide for your ArubaOS-Switch.

e.g. look at chapter 16 page 350 of this guide:

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=a00050273en_us

Regards

Pedro

 

ArubaOS-CX seems not to have the possibility to backup with

scp manager@10.10.10.10:/cfg/startup-config .

Why was scp removed? (not implemented)

Good day!

Hello,

Yes you are correct. 

• As per today, Aruba ArubaOS-CX (AOS-CX) doesn’t support SCP(client/server). 
• TFTP/SFTP Client is supported on AOS-CX.  Does this help?

Thanks,

Yash

Hello,

 

in a PVOS / Comware environment built on iMC using scp that is an inconvenient exception. 

 

Thanks

 

Winfried

Thank you for that feedback.

Please talk to account team, will also send this request to our switching PLM. If I hear more update, will keep you posted.

 

Due to this are you seeing any impact on current customer deal? 

or is this a must support feature for RFP?

 

Please share, that will help me while sending request.

 

Thanks,

Yash

Sure. We stop buying further ArubaOS-CX switches and look for other solutions so long.

it is for backup the config ? (or restore a config ?)

It is mainly backup, but also restore. A manual way is to do a copy running-config sftpurl from the CLI of the switch. iMC support case is already running for some time. CX is the only switch we use not supporting scp. I assume this is still the most common way. Am I wrong?

Hello,

Alternatively we have scp supported on shell, does that help for now?

 

CX6300#start-shell
CX6300:/home/admin# scp vsrmsgs chandjol@10.0.15.237:/users/chandjol/supportfile/varmsgs
chandjol@10.0.15.237's password:
vsrmsgs 100% 859KB 60.3MB/s 00:00
CX6300:/home/admin#

 

btw, I am sharing your feature request to PLM. Will keep you posted on update asap.

 

Have a good day!

 

Thank you,

Yash

Hi,

 

There is also API for download (or upload) config and it is possible to call SCP destination (or source)

Hi,

 

I am aware of scp in the root shell. This is a good way to work around other bugs. 

 

I was not aware of the API approach to export a configuration. Will iMC be capable of using the API? 

Cheers

Winfried

No for IMC

If I understand the indication from support correctly there is no known solution at all to backup ArubaOS-CX with iMC. 

Has anybody managed? 

Hello Winfried, on the contrary...I'm currently able to backup both of our Aruba 8320 switches (ArubaOS-CX) into HPE IMC...don't know if that is "on-topic" or "off-topic" considering your were discussing about using SCP on ArubaOS-Switch based switches...in any case have a look at the thread How to backup Aruba 8400 series switch with IMC 7.3 E0703 on HPE Networking Community forum (ArubaOS-CX backup via TFTP in HPE IMC).

Hello Parnassus,

 

thanks for the hint with the other tftp base discussion thread concerning ArubaOS-CX iMC backup. 

 

Sorry for hijacking this thread on from ArubaOS-Switch to ArubaOS-CX.

 

Cheers

Winfried