Vlan database (flash:vlan.dat) is stored in the archive automatically if the switch is VTP mode server or transparent. But you *CANNOT* download this info from the server to the device with the GUI!! (just had a case open with this issue).
You have to use command line tool "cwconfig put". For displaying help type "cwconfig put -help".
And be careful what you are doing if you want to use the vlan info stored on the server !!!
Any time you download a config from the server to a device (doesn`t matter if you are doing it with the GUI or command line) RME will perform an "UPDATE ARCHIVE" automatically. So if you download a config to a device and the device has currently another vlan information as the one that is stored on the server along with the config you are downloading the vlan info on the server will be overwritten with the current vlan info from the device!! :-((
(Vlan info in the archive of the LMS server is allways tied to the config with which it was uploaded..). This means, if you have ever used a certain config on the server for to download to a device, you must be careful with the vlan info stored along with this config!
This as preamble ;-). the exact doing is:
The switch you want to download the vlan info to must be accessibel by RME (usually telnet); it must have the same IP address as the one you have the config from and as well the same ena and telnet PW.
1) Choose the version of config/vlan info in the archive that you want to download
2) use the command line:
cwconfig put -u -p -device -version <# of config> -filetype vlan -save -reboot
[note: the reboot is essential for the info to take effect!!]
- with this tool you cannot download the stored info from one device to another with different IP address!.
A more simple way would be to store the vlan.dat on a tftp-server and then just perform a download from the device by using "copy tftp flash:" ....
HTH
MArtin
