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Backing Up a Ruckus Switch Config

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I want to do some changes on my home network to improve the performance, so I will implement VLANs on my network. But before I do that I want to document how to perform a backup of my Ruckus ICX 7150 Switch.

In a past post I mentioned how to enable ssh and web cofiguration on the Ruckus switch, so my first attemtp was to download the configuration file from the web interface but unfortunately it is not possible to do it, there is not an option for that. What I did is go to the documentation and found the copy command but I need a TFTP server to be able to download the backup file.

Let’s start!

Install a TFTP server - This is easy will depend on your Operative System, for my is an ArchLinux laptop.
```
yay -Sy atftp
```
The configuration file for atftp is /etc/conf.d/atftpd

Next step, is login on your Ruckus switch and perform the copy command:

ssh <USER>@<SWITCH-IP>
copy running-config tftp <TFTP-SERVER-IP> myconfig.cfg

#In my case is:
ssh ruckus@192.168.50.5
copy running-config tftp 192.168.50.4 myconfig.cfg

Verify that the file is on your TFTP server, by default, the configured directory for atftp is /srv/atftp/ so you should go that location and verify that the generated file is created.
```
cd /srv/atftp
ls -la
```

That’s all, you can restore your switch configuration if needed.

Bye!

Configure SSH on a Ruckus Switch

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I just have a Ruckus ICX 7150 Switch on my home and I’m trying to get access under ssh and web, to easy configuration and security instead of use telnet. So, I logged in using telnet and then run the following commands to configure a username/password and begin to receive petitions over port 22(ssh) and port 443(https). Let’s begin!

We will connect via telnet to the switch.
```
telnet SWITCH_IP
```

Once we are on the Switch CLI as a optional step, we can configure an IP on the switch.

device> enable
device# configure terminal
device(config)# ip address IP_ADDRESS/CIDR
device(config)# ip default-gateway IP_GATEWAY

Now, the next steps are for generate a SSL certificate, a username/password, activate password to login and enable thw web access and ssh access.

device(config)# crypto-ssl certificate generate
device(config)# username USERNAME password PASSWORD
device(config)# aaa authentication login default local
device(config)# aaa authentication web-server default local

It may take several minutes to generate the certificate key. After that, save the configuration.
```
device(config)# write memory
```

Now you are able to login on your switch using ssh or web.

References:

Blog with ruckus commands ¹

Ruckus ICX7150-C12P – Initial Configuration ↩︎

OSI Model Cheat Sheet

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

If anyone need a good OSI Model cheat sheet, as me:

OSI Model diagram