Chapter 7 Managing Firmware and Configurations

Working with Configuration Files

For the local flash file system, the syntax is flash:

For the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), the syntax is

ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar

For the Remote Copy Protocol (RCP), the syntax is rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar

For the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), the syntax is tftp:[[//location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar

The tar-filename.taris the tar file from which to extract files.

For flash:/file-url, specify the location on the local flash file system into which the tar file is extracted. You can also specify an optional list of files or directories within the tar file for extraction. If none are specified, all files and directories are extracted.

This example shows how to extract the contents of a tar file located on the TFTP server at 172.20.10.30. This command extracts just the new-configsdirectory into the root directory on the local flash file system. The remaining files in the saved.tar file are ignored.

bridge# archive tar /xtract tftp://172.20.10.30/saved.tar flash:/new-configs

Displaying the Contents of a File

To display the contents of any readable file, including a file on a remote file system, use the more [/ascii /binary /ebcdic] file-urlprivileged EXEC command:

This example shows how to display the contents of a configuration file on a TFTP server:

bridge# more tftp://serverA/hampton/savedconfig

!

!Saved configuration on server

version 11.3

service timestamps log datetime localtime service linenumber

service udp-small-servers service pt-vty-logging

<output truncated>

Working with Configuration Files

This section describes how to create, load, and maintain configuration files. Configuration files contain commands entered to customize the function of the Cisco IOS software. To better benefit from these instructions, your WMIC contains a minimal default running configuration for interacting with the system software.

You can copy (download) configuration files from a TFTP, FTP, or RCP server to the running configuration of the WMIC for various reasons:

To restore a backed-up configuration file.

To use the configuration file for another bridge. For example, you might add another bridge to your network and want it to have a configuration similar to the original bridge. By copying the file to the new bridge, you can change the relevant parts rather than recreating the whole file.

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