Allied Telesis at-8516f User Guide

Software Release 2.6.1
C613-02025-00 REV C

You can alternate between the GUI and the CLI without difficulty. Note that 
GUI pages will not automatically refresh to reflect changes in the CLI 
configuration; you must reload the relevant page (for example, by clicking the 
Refresh button on your browser).

If you are configuring a number of switches with similar requirements, you 
may wish to:

1.

Configure one device, using either the CLI or the GUI

2.

Save that configuration. This creates a configuration file, stored in the 
switch’s FLASH memory. The file consists of a sorted list of the CLI 
commands that make up the configuration

3.

Upload that file to a PC, using either the CLI or the GUI

4.

Open the file in a text editor, make changes as required, and download the 
file onto each switch you need to configure.

You can download the latest GUI resource file from the support site at 

. Before you start, ensure that the switch is running 

the most recent release and patch files. The GUI is not part of the firmware 
release file, but the most recent resource file will generally only be compatible 
with the most recent software release. To check which files the switch is 
running, refer to the “Current Install” section of the command:

SHOW INSTALL

If you are updating both the release and the resource file, set the preferred 
release and restart the switch before installing the GUI as described below.

If required, you can store more than one GUI resource file on the switch at 
a time. If you want to delete the previous GUI resource file (for example, to 
save memory), you must first disable the GUI, using the command:

DISABLE GUI

Then delete the GUI resource file, using the command:

DELETE FILE=old-gui.rsc

where:

•

old-gui.rsc is the name of the GUI resource file that you are replacing.

Wait until FLASH compaction has finished. This will take several minutes.