Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Exporting a configuration to a text file

23 Configuration repository

•Regular expressions check box - Select the check box to use unicode regular expressions in your search.

•Search options — Specify the following types of available searches:

•Latest configurations — Searches the text in the most recent configurations of the selected products.

•All configurations — Searches the text in all configurations of the selected products.

•Date range — Searches the configuration files of the selected products within the specified date range.

8.Click the Find button to find the text string and display the search results in the Search Results list.

9.Click the Stop button to stop the search in progress.

10.Click the View button to display the contents of the selected configuration file. The configuration entry that matches the search criteria is displayed in red.

11.Click the Group button to create product groups.

NOTE

You can only use the Product Group feature if you have the Configuration Management privilege and the Search Configuration Repository dialog box has search results.

12.Click Close to close the Search Configuration Repository dialog box.

Exporting a configuration to a text file

The Export button on the Configuration Repository dialog box allows you to export the configuration of the selected product to a text file. You must have the Configuration Management privilege in your Management application user account to perform this task.

Follow these steps to export a configuration to a text file. You can export a maximum of 25 configurations simultaneously.

1.Click the IP tab.

2.Select Configure > Configuration > Configuration Repository.

3.Click the Product Configurations tab.

4.Select one or more products from the Product list.

5.Select one or more configurations from the Configurations list.

6.Click Export.

The Export Configuration dialog box displays.

7.Browse to the location to which you want export the configuration and click Export. The default locations for the product configuration are as follows:

•Windows: Desktop\My Documents

•Linux: \root

If you select configurations from the same product, the default text file name is

IP_Address_config.txt. IPv6 addresses use dashes (-) instead of colons (:) in file naming.

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