3com 2816 Guía Del Usuario

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need to restart your computer to re-establish 
communication with the Switch.

To back up the Switch’s setting to a configuration file, 
click Backup. You will be prompted to download and 
save a file to disk.

To reload configuration settings that you previously 
saved to a file, scroll down the page, and then click 
Browse to locate the backup file on your computer, and 
then click Restore to copy the configuration back to the 
Switch.

For security purposes, restoring the configuration does 
not change the password.

The Upgrade facility allows you to install on the Switch 
any new releases of system software that 3Com may 
make available.

The newer version of software can be downloaded via 
HTTP and once copied to the Switch; the Switch will 
restart and apply the newer system software version.

Figure 27   Upgrade Tab

Once you have downloaded the software, use the 
Browse button to locate the file on your computer, and 
then click on Apply.

The file will be copied to the Switch, and once this has 
completed, the Switch will restart. Although the 
upgrade process has been designed to preserve your 
configuration settings, 3Com recommends that you 
make a backup of the configuration beforehand, in case 
the upgrade process fails for any reason (for example, 
the connection between the computer and the Switch is