Sunday, July 29, 2018

Switch configuration backup using PowerShell

In this article, I will briefly explain how to backup running configuration of your Dell switches to a TFTP server location using PowerShell.

Prerequisites

  • A TFTP server should be configured and running
Workflow
  1. Get a list of IP address of switches that needs to be backed up
    list = Get-Content .\switch_list.txt
  2. Collect credentials to SSH into the switch
    $creds = Get-Credential
  3. Create a new SSH session to the first switch in the list
    $sw_ssh = New-SshSession -ComputerName 192.168.10.2 -Credential $creds -Force -ConnectionTimeout 300
  4. Invoke the command to backup running config to TFTP server over the SSH session
    $filename =(Get-Date).tostring("dd-MM-yyyy-hh-mm-ss")
    $cmd_backup = "copy running-config tftp://192.168.11.33/sw01/$filename.txt"
    Invoke-sshcommand -Command $cmd_backup -SSHSession $sw_ssh
  5. Repeat step 3 and 4 for all the switches in the list
Complete project reference

Note
You can schedule this PS script using a task scheduler so that the running configuration of switches can be backed up automatically on a daily basis or as per requirements.

Hope this was useful. Cheers!

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