22 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide
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Configuration management tasks
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Display the running configuration file
To display the running configuration, perform the following task from EXEC or privileged EXEC
mode.
Enter the show running-config command.
switch#show running-config
Saving the running configuration file
This tasks causes the running configuration to become the default configuration. To save the
running configuration, perform the following task from privileged EXEC mode.
Enter the copy command to copy the currently running configuration to the startup configuration.
switch#copy running-config startup-config
Loading the startup configuration file
If you wish to reverse the changes to the running configuration, this task reloads the default startup
configuration, overwriting the running configuration.
To load the default configuration, perform the following command from privileged EXEC mode.
switch#copy startup-config running-config
Erasing the startup configuration file.
NOTE
This task does not affect the running configuration file.
To erase the startup configuration, perform the following command from privileged EXEC mode.
switch#write erase
Archiving the running configuration file
This tasks allows you to archive the running configuration to an archive folder on an FTP site, so
that it can be stored without changing the startup configuration. To archive the running
configuration file, perform the following task from privileged EXEC mode.
Enter the copy command to archive the running configuration file.
switch#copy running-config
ftp://jsmith:password@10.24.48.51/archive/config_file]
Restore an archived running configuration file
To restore the running configuration, perform the following task from privileged EXEC mode.
Enter the copy command to restore the running configuration file.
switch#copy running-config
ftp://jsmith:password@10.24.48.51/archive/config_file]