Deployment Guide

Conguration Cloning

Conguration Cloning enables you to clone the conguration from one aggregator to one or more aggregators. You can identify the source

aggregator where running conguration is check-pointed, extracted and downloaded to the target aggregator for further use. The target

aggregator checks the compatibilities of the cloning le based on the version, mode and optional modules. The target aggregator further

takes care of the conicting congurations and appropriately proceeds with the application of the cloning conguration. 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

conguration le. You can also conrm the conguration status of server using the

show ip ssh command before proceeding to le

transfer. The aggregator takes care of the conicting congurations between the source aggregator and target aggregator and

appropriately informs you to perform the necessary action.

To congure a cloning operation on an aggregator, follow these general conguration steps:

1 Create the cloning conguration 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 conguration le compatibility with the current congurations on the target aggregator. The command expects the

le specied in the command to be already present in local le system (ash:).

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 lename is not specied in CLI, the le used for the cloning operation iscloning-config.

Cloning Conguration Output Status

If you specify the XML option in the CLI, the output of the CLI commands is displayed in XML format.

The output includes the following parameters:

• Cloning state displays one of the following status:

• Success

• Warning

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