Configure a Device as an SFTP Server

Network Requirements

• A PC acts as an SFTP server, and Device acts as an SFTP client. The network between the server and the device is normal.
• On the SFTP server, the user name for a device to log in to the SFTP server is admin1, and the password is admin1. The file system directory of Device serves as the root directory of the SFTP server.
• The PC acts as the SFTP client to upload files to and download files from the SFTP server.

Network Topology

Figure 4-8 Networking for configuring a device as an SFTP server

Configuration Steps

Step 1: Configure the IP address of the interface so that the network between the PC and the Device is normal. (Omitted)

Step 2: On the Device, enable the SFTP server, and configure the authorized user name and password.

# On the SFTP server Device, configure the authorized user name and password.

#On the Device, enable the SSH service (SFTP is one sub module of the SSH protocol).

Step 3: Use the PC as the SFTP client to upload and download one file to the SFTP server Device.

#The following takes the Linux system as an example to describe the related process.

#Input the correct IP address and user name, password to log into the SFTP server.

#Get the startup file in the file system of the SFTP server Device.

#After copying the file, you can find the related file in the operation directory.

sftp> ls                  
sp8-g-6.6.7(74)-dbg.pck   sp8-g-6.6.7(76)-dbg.pck   startup                   tech                      test_pc                   
sftp>

#Upload the file in the PC to the file system of the SFTP server Device.

#After uploading the file, you can find the corresponding file in the file system of Device.

Device(config-fs)#dir
   size           date          time       name
------------     ------        ------    --------
2048             JUN-30-2015  16:35:50   tech
10229            JUN-12-2015  14:31:22   history            
101890           JUN-30-2015  17:46:40   logging            
39755            JUN-30-2015  16:33:56   startup            
740574           MAY-27-2014  18:55:14   web-Spl-1.1.243.rom   
2048             JUN-27-2015  16:26:10   snmp
11698172         JUN-30-2015  10:36:18   sp8-g-6.6.7(76)-dbg.pck