Configuration Scripting; Overview; Considerations; Cli Examples - D-Link DES-3226L User Manual

Configuration Scripting

This section describes the Configuration Scripting feature.

Overview

Configuration Scripting:
Allows you to generate text-formatted files
Provides scripts that can be uploaded and downloaded to the system
Provides flexibility to create command configuration scripts
May be applied to several switches
Can save up to ten scripts or 500K of memory
Provides List, Delete, Apply, Upload, Download
Provides script format of one CLI command per line

Considerations

Total number of scripts stored on box limited by NVRAM/FLASH size.
Application of scripts is partial if script fails. For example, if the script executes five of ten
commands and the script fails, the script stops at five.
Scripts cannot be modified or deleted while being applied.
Validation of scripts checks for syntax errors only. It does not validate that the script will
run.

CLI Examples

The following are examples of the commands used for the Configuration Scripting feature.

Example #1: script

(Console)
apply
delete
list
show
validate
Applies configuration script to the switch.
Deletes a configuration script file from the switch.
Lists all configuration script files present on the
switch.
Displays the contents of configuration script.
Validate the commands of configuration script.
#script ?
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