Cisco IOS Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Using SNMP to Modify a Router’s Running Configuration

Problem

You want to use SNMP to either download or modify a router’s configuration.

Solution

To upload or download a current copy of your router’s configuration file to a TFTP server via SNMP, you have to first configure the router for read-write SNMP access:

Router#configure terminal 
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#snmp-server community ORARW rw
Router(config)#end

To download the current configuration file, you will need to create an empty file on your TFTP server. In this case, we assume a Unix server, although TFTP server software is available for essentially every popular operating system. Then you can send an SNMP command to the router to trigger the TFTP download:

Freebsd% touch /tftpboot/router.cfg
Freebsd% chmod 666 /tftpboot/router.cfg
Freebsd% snmpset –v1 -c ORARW Router .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.55.172.25.1.1 s router.cfg
enterprises.9.2.1.55.172.25.1.1 = "router.cfg"
Freebsd%

You can use SNMP to trigger the router to upload a configuration file from your TFTP server via SNMP as follows:

Freebsd% echo "no ip source-route" > /tftpboot/new.cfg
Freebsd% echo "end" >> /tftpboot/new.cfg
Freebsd% chmod 666 /tftpboot/new.cfg
Freebsd% snmpset –v1 -c ORARW Router .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.53.172.25.1.1 s new.cfg
enterprises.9.2.1.53.172.25.1.1 = "new.cfg"
Freebsd% snmpset –v1 -c ORARW Router .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.54.0 i 1
enterprises.9.2.1.54.0 = 1
Freebsd%

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