How To Return To The Factory Defaults - Allied Telesis SwitchBlade x908 Series Software Reference Manual

How to return to the factory defaults

The switch dynamically adds the default settings to the running-config at start-up if the default
file is not present. This section describes how to use this feature to return to the factory
defaults.
Completely To completely remove your configuration and return to the factory default configuration,
restore defaults delete or rename the default file and make sure no other file is set as the start-up configuration
file.
To find the location of the default boot configuration file, enter Privileged Exec mode and enter
the command:
To delete the default file when it is the current boot configuration file, enter Privileged Exec
mode and enter either of the commands:
or:
Note that erasing startup-config deletes the current boot configuration file—it does not simply
stop the file from being the boot file.
To make sure that no other file is loaded at start-up, enter Global Configuration mode and
enter the command:
Partially restore To partially restore the default settings, make a configuration file that contains the settings you
defaults want to keep and set this as the start-up configuration file. On start-up, the switch will add the
missing settings to the running-config.
For example, to use default settings but still keep an IP address on the eth0 management port,
create a file like the following one and set it as the boot configuration file:
The output looks like this:
Figure 1-10:
C613-50007-01 REV B
awplus#
awplus#
awplus#
awplus(config)#
awplus#
!
interface eth0
ip address 172.28.8.210/16
!
ip route 0.0.0.0/0 172.28.0.1
!
end
Software Reference for SwitchBlade® x908, x900 and x600 Series Switches
TM
AlliedWare Plus Operating System - Software Version 5.3.1
show boot
delete force <filename>
erase startup-config
no boot config-file
show file eth0-ip.cfg
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