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Brocade VDX 8770-4 Hardware Reference Manual 37

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Saving your changes

Complete the following steps to make your changes persistent. This ensures that if you must reboot

the switch, the preferences you have set will be in force when the switch comes back up.

1. Log in to the switch using an account that has the admin role.

2. In privileged EXEC mode, enter the copy running-config startup-config command.

switch# copy running-config startup-config

This operation will modify your startup configuration. Do you want to

continue? [Y/N]: Y

3. When the confirmation question appears, answer Y for Yes.

The current running configuration, containing all of your latest changes, is saved to the startup

configuration. The next time the switch reboots, all of the changes will remain in force.

Verifying correct operation

Complete the following steps to verify correct operation for the Brocade VDX 8770-4.

1. Check the LEDs to verify that all components are functional.

2. If necessary, log in to the switch by Telnet, using the admin account.

3. Enter the show chassis command to verify that the Brocade VDX 8770-4 and its components

are operating correctly.

4. Enter the show interface command to show the status of all of the ports in the line cards.

5. Enter the show fabric all command to verify the operation of the Brocade VDX 8770-4 in the

fabric.

Backing up the configuration

Complete the following steps to back up the configuration for the Brocade VDX 8770-4. If you back

up your configuration to a USB device, be sure to use a Brocade-branded USB device. The Brocade

USB device comes pre-configured with four directories, /firmware, /config, /support, and

/firmwarekey. Configuration backups are automatically saved in the /config directory.

1. Log in to the switch using an account that has the admin role.

2. You can choose to back up the startup configuration or the running configuration or both. To

back up these configurations, use the copy command. These examples show backing up the

configurations to a Brocade-branded USB device.

a. Insert the Brocade-branded USB device into the USB port on the active MM.

b. Enable the USB device by entering the USB on command while in privileged EXEC mode.

c. To back up the startup configuration, enter copy startup-config

usb://mystartupconfigdate.

The date portion of the target file name should be the current date to indicate when the

backup was made. For example: copy running-config usb://myrunningconfig06142012.