Administrator Guide

Configuration Cloning

Configuration Cloning enables you to clone the configuration from one aggregator to one or more

aggregators. You can identify the source aggregator where running configuration is check-pointed, extracted

and downloaded to the target aggregator for further use. The target aggregator checks the compatibilities of

the cloning file based on the version, mode and optional modules. The target aggregator further takes care of

the conflicting configurations and appropriately proceeds with the application of the cloning configuration.

Select the source or target aggregator and run the CLI commands to achieve the cloning operation and verify

the CLI output to check the status of the command execution. By default, the aggregator is enabled with SCP

server, so that you can make necessary transfers of cloning configuration file. You can also confirm the

configuration status of server using the

show ip ssh command before proceeding to file transfer. The

aggregator takes care of the conflicting configurations between the source aggregator and target aggregator

and appropriately informs you to perform the necessary action.

To configure a cloning operation on an aggregator, follow these general configuration steps:

1 Create the cloning configuration in the source aggregator.

clone-config create [file-name filename][output xml]

Dell#clone-config create filename standalone_combo_card

SUCCESS:Cloning configuration created successfully(13)

Dell#

2 Check the cloning configuration file compatibility with the current configurations on the target

aggregator. The command expects the file specified in the command to be already present in local file

system (flash:).

clone-config check [file-name filename][output xml]

WARNING:Release Patch version mismatch(20);

Release time mismatch(21);

Release size mismatch(22);

FC ports have to be reconfigured to Ethernet ports.(28)

NumRebootsRequired : 1

3 Add the command usage in the target aggregator.

clone-config apply [file-name filename][output xml]

Dell#clone-config apply filename standalone_combo_card

Jul 23 15:08:11: %STKUNIT0-M:CP %CFGCLONING-1-CFGCLONING_INFO_RELOAD:

Reloading device to apply cloning configuration

Jul 23 15:08:11: %STKUNIT0-M:CP %CHMGR-5-RELOAD: User request to reload the

chassis

By default, if the filename is not specified in CLI, the file used for the cloning operation iscloning-config.

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