Switch Memory and Configuration

Using the Menu and Web Browser Interfaces To Implement Configuration Changes

value will appear in the menu interface display for that parameter. However, as indicated above, unless you also make a configuration change in the menu interface, only the write memory command in the CLI will actually save the change to the startup-config file.

How To Reset the startup-config and running-config Files to the

Factory Default Configuration. This command reboots the switch, replacing the contents of the current startup-config and running-config files with the factory-default startup configuration.

Syntax: erase startup-config

For example:

ProCurve(config)# erase startup-config

Configuration will be deleted and device rebooted, continue [y/n]?

Figure 6-3. Example of erase startup-config Command

Press [y] to replace the current configuration with the factory default config­ uration and reboot the switch. Press [n] to retain the current configuration and prevent a reboot.

Using the Menu and Web BrowserInterfaces To Implement ConfigurationChanges

The menu and web browser interfaces offer these advantages:

Quick, easy menu or window access to a subset of switch configuration features

Viewing several related configuration parameters in the same screen, with their default and current settings

Immediately changing both the running-config file and the startup-config file with a single command

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