Switch Memory and Configuration

Using the CLI To Implement Configuration Changes

If you use the CLI to change a parameter setting, and then execute the boot command without first executing the write memory command to save the change, the switch prompts you to specify whether to save the changes in the current running-config file. For example:

Disables port 1 in the running configuration, which causes port 1 to block all traffic.

ProCurve(config)# interface e 1 disable ProCurve(config)# boot

Device will be rebooted, do you want to continue [y/n]? y Press [Y] to continue the rebooting process.

You will then see this prompt.

Do you want to save current configuration [y/n]?

Figure 6-2. Boot Prompt for an Unsaved Configuration

The above prompt means that one or more parameter settings in the running­ config file differ from their counterparts in the startup-config file and you need to choose which config file to retain and which to discard.

■If you want to update the startup-config file to match the running-config file, press [Y] for “yes”. (This means that the changes you entered in the running-config file will be saved in the startup-config file.)

■If you want to discard the changes you made to the running-config file so that it will match the startup-config file, then press [N] for “no”. (This means that the switch will discard the changes you entered in the running­ config file and will update the running-config file to match the startup­ config file.)

N o t e

If you use the CLI to make a change to the running-config file, you should

 

either use the write memory command or select the save option allowed during

 

a reboot (figure 6-6-2, above) to save the change to the startup-config file. That

 

is, if you use the CLI to change a parameter setting, but then reboot the switch

 

from either the CLI or the menu interface without first executing the write

 

memory command in the CLI, the current startup-config file will replace the

 

running-config file, and any changes in the running-config file will be lost.

 

Using the Save command in the menu interface does not save a change made

 

to the running config by the CLI unless you have also made a configuration

 

change in the menu interface. Also, the menu interface displays the current

 

running-config values. Thus, where a parameter setting is accessible from both

 

the CLI and the menu interface, if you change the setting in the CLI, the new

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