Cisco Prime TFTP Server Question

[Andrew McNatt]

Our organization recently installed Cisco Prime 1.3 on a Linux box.  I am used to using the older WCS which also had a built in TFTP server.  The old WCS was installed on a Windows Box and thus I was able to navigate to the TFTP server using Windows Explorer and the UNC path.  However, I cannot seem to access the TFTP server on the new Prime 1.3 server via that method.  I have verified that the TFTP and FTP servers are both enabled in Prime server settings and I have also verified that I can access the FTP port via a PC on the network and that the WLCs on the network are sucessfully backing up to the Prime TFTP server each night. 

How can I access the TFTP server to retrieve these WLC backups if needed?  

[Stephen Rodriguez]

you need to enable root access.  then you can scp the files out of the directory easily enough.

from cli

root_enable

follow prompts

root

psswd - set password

should be abel to ssh as root at that point, if you can want to say it's /localdisk/tftp, or just ls /localdisk

HTH,
Steve

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[Andrew McNatt]

Thanks for the info. 

I tried SSH to the Prime Server using username root and our root  password but I keep getting access denied error.  I have verified that I  can logon to the web gui with the same root username and password.  Is  there a seperate root password for the CLI?

Thanks

[Stephen Rodriguez]

Yes.

To gain access to the root from CLI, you need to follow the procedure I outlined to enable it.

HTH,
Steve

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[Ravi Singh]

Yes Stephen is right you have to enable root access on cisco PI. Then you acn be able to test the TFTP Setting. For more information you can go this url

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/prime_infrastructure/1.3/quickstart/guide/cpi_qsg_1_3.html

[jino_jacob]

Hi, I have a similar situation.

Is CLI of prime accessible only using the root username and password setup during installation?

Can someone help with the process to copy config backup files from Prime tftp to a different machine

Also, how can i load files like the WLC firmwares onto the prime tftp to perform WLC firmware upgrades? Should I use another tftp/ftp to perform firmware upgrades?

Thanks

Jino