A10E/A28E/A28F Configuration Guide
microcomputer, it generates a program specially used to monitoring the running status of
switch hardware, which is commonly known as the Watchdog.
The system will reboot when the Switch cannot continue to work for task suspension or dead
circulation, and without feeding the dog within a feeding dog cycle.
The watchdog function configuration can prevent the system program from dead circulation
caused by uncertainty fault so as to improve the stability of system.
Configure the A10E/A28E as below.
Alpha-A28E#watchdog enable
1.10 Load and upgrade
1.10.1 Introduction
Load
In traditional, configuration files are loaded by serial port, it takes a long time to load for the
low speed and remote loading is unavailable. FTP and TFTP loading modes can solve those
problems and make operation more convenient.
The A10E/A28E supports TFTP auto-loading mode.
TFTP auto-loading means users get the device configuration files from server and then
configure the device. Auto-loading function allows configuration files to contain loading
related commands for multiple configurations loading so as to meet file auto-loading
requirements in complex network environment.
The A10E/A28E provides several methods to confirm configuration file name in TFTP server,
such as input by manual, obtain by DHCP Client, use default configuration file name, etc.
Besides, users can assign certain denomination rule for configuration files and then, the
device confirms the name according to the rules and combines with itself attribution (device
type, MAC address, software version, and so on).
Upgrade
The A10E/A28E needs to upgrade if you want to add new features, optimize functions or
solve current software version bugs.
The A10E/A28E supports the following two upgrade modes:
Upgrade by BootROM
Upgrade by command line
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