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Hi, is it possible to migrate the config file from 3COM 4500 and 4210 to HPE OfficeConnect 1920S? Since HPE OfficeConnect  is using ComWare operating system.

Thank you!

HPE OfficeConnect 1920S Switch series isn't based on Comware (neither Comware v5 nor Comware v7) NOS...it runs a customized embedded Linux flavour indeed (you probably confused the 1920S with the plain 1920 which was superseded by 1920S on the OfficeConnect product line).

You also have to consider that HPE OfficeConnect 1920S Switch series was (and is) engineered to be web managed...not CLI managed.

Hi @parnassus, 

Thanks for the reply. This is very helpful!

Hi parnassus, 

Do you know if there is any current model, with Comware based OS, able to accept the config file migrate from 3COM 4500 and 4210 switch to the new switch?

Thank you!

For me, there is no switch accept configuration migration... (always need to be rework...)

Hi wong, AFAIK the 3Com 4210 is Comware 3.10 based (IIRC I wrote about it here).

The 3Com 4210G instead is Comware 5 based (I wrote here). I'm not sure you have 4210 or 4210G.

The 3Com 4500 should be Comware 5 based as the 4210G.

In ANY case, as Alexis wrote above, you shouldn't migrate (by doing a simple and blind "copy and paste") your actual 4500 configuration (or worst, the 4210 configuration) to a newer HPE Comware 5 (or 7) based Switch...instead a complete reconfiguration by hand should be done.

Given that a suggestion would be:

- go to an old used 3Com (HPE rebranded) 4800G (Comware 5 based).

- go to an "entry level" HPE FlexNetwork 5130/5510/5700 (for sure those series are more expensive than an old used and now unsupported 3Com 4500G,  3Com 4500 and 3Com 4210) to benefit from a CLI and Comware 5 or 7.

- move on and go to an HPE OfficeConnect 1920S (Linux, Web Based) or 1950 (Comware 7 but Web Based).

- move on and go to ArubaOS-Switch or ArubaOS-CX based switch series.

In any case you will not be able to perform a "one click" migration...any choice will require you to re-configure by hand (mostly).