Cabletron Systems CSX1200, CSX1000 manual Configuration Tools, Executing Cfgedit

CONFIGURATION TOOLS

OVERVIEW

We provide the following configuration tools to set up and/or alter your configuration:

•CFGEDIT, the configuration utility

•Manage Mode, the dynamic management utility

Your CyberSWITCH is shipped with a default set of configuration files that are preinstalled. These configuration files provide basic functions which will allow you to perform initial installation tests with no additional configuration. However, once you perform these initial installation tests, you will need to customize your configuration to suit your needs.

CFGEDIT is the comprehensive utility you use to initially set up your system; you may use it later to make configuration changes as well. However, CFGEDIT is NOT dynamic. This means you will have to interrupt normal system operations in order to update configuration files. (You may do so by either rebooting, or issuing the restart command).

Manage Mode provides a real-time management mechanism that allows you to change the configuration, without interrupting the current execution state of the system software. But, because it is dynamic, Manage Mode does have its limitations. So, when making configuration changes, you usually need to use a combination of both of these two tools.

You may only have one CFGEDIT or Dynamic Management session active at a time per system. For example, if a user is making changes directly to the system using Dynamic Management, and then a second person at a different location using Telnet attempts changes, access will be denied to the second person.

With two exceptions, it is possible to completely configure your system using CFGEDIT. The exceptions are:

1.TFTP configuration

2.file attributes configuration

These two elements can only be configured using Manage Mode.

CFGEDIT

CFGEDIT is a menu-driven utility. It consists of multiple, detailed submenus which allow you to set up or change configuration parameters. To better understand the structure of CFGEDIT, refer to the CFGEDIT Map.

CFGEDIT allows you to configure your system while the system software is still executing. These configuration changes are saved in a temporary copy of configuration data. At a convenient time, you may then reboot the system to make these changes permanent.

EXECUTING CFGEDIT

After the system software has been loaded, you can start CFGEDIT by entering the following command at the system prompt as shown below:

[product name]> cfgedit