Configuring File Management; Displaying The Current-Configuration And Saved-Configuration Of The Switch - 3Com Switch 4500 26-Port Configuration Manual

Configuring File
Management
Displaying the
Current-configuration
and Saved-configuration
of the Switch
Table 244 File System Operation
Operation
Set the file system prompt mode.
The management module of the configuration file provides a user-friendly
operation interface. It saves the configuration of the Switch in the text format of
command line to record the whole configuration process. Thus you can view the
configuration information conveniently.
The format of the configuration file includes:
It is saved in the command format.
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Only the non-default constants will be saved
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The organization of commands is based on command views. The commands in
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the same command mode are sorted in one section. The sections are separated
with a blank line or a comment line (a comment line begins with exclamation
mark "#").
Generally, the sections in the file are arranged in the following order: system
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configuration, Ethernet port configuration, vlan interface configuration,
routing protocol configuration and so on.
It ends with "return".
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The management over the configuration files includes:
Display the current-configuration and saved-configuration of the Switch
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Save the current-configuration
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Erase configuration files from Flash Memory
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After being powered on, the system reads the configuration files from Flash for
the initialization of the device. (Such configuration files are called
saved-configuration files.) If there is no configuration file in Flash, the system will
begin the initialization with the default parameters. Relative to the
saved-configuration, the configuration in effect during the operating process of
the system is called current-configuration. You can use the following commands to
display the current-configuration and saved-configuration information of the
Switch.
Perform the following configuration in all views.
Table 245 Display the Configurations of the Switch
Operation
Display the saved-configuration
information of the Switch
Display the current-configuration
information of the Switch
Display the running configuration
of the current view

Configuring File Management

Command
file prompt { alert | quiet }
Command
display saved-configuration
display current-configuration [
controller | interface interface-type [
interface-number ] | configuration [
configuration ] ] [ | { begin | exclude |
include } regular-expression ]
display this
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