Hello, Christian;
There may be a similar way of doing this for a Catalyst as it is by Cisco 
routers.
There you can use a snmpset to get a router's config file saved on to a TFTP
server.  I do not have Catalyst switches so I do not know if their SNMP agents 
do
support a similar MIB object (by routers it is .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.55) so you 
may go
and look into their MIBs.

HTH,
Bets regards,
Vladimir.

chuberdeau AT avdl DOT com wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
>
>      Did anybody know how to retrieve the configuration from a switch. 
> Because I
> cant use "rsh" with cisco-5500.
>
> I try with the GUI in netview but it does not look write....
>
> Basically I need to do a daily backup of them.
>
> Thank you
>
> Christian
>
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