Users Guide

View Conguration Files

Conguration les have three commented lines at the beginning of the le, as shown in the following example, to help you track the

last time any user made a change to the le, which user made the changes, and when the le was last saved to the startup-

conguration.

In the running-conguration le, if there is a dierence between the timestamp on the “Last conguration change,” and “Startup-

cong last updated,” you have made changes that have not been saved and will not be preserved after a system reboot.

Example of the show running-config Command

Dell#show running-config

Current Configuration ...

! Version 9-0(1-0)

! Last configuration change at Mon Jun 10 21:20:04 2030 by admin

boot system stack-unit 0 primary system: B:

boot system stack-unit 0 secondary tftp://10.200.200.241/kp-diablo

boot system stack-unit 0 default tftp://10.11.200.241/kp-diablo

redundancy auto-synchronize full

service timestamps log datetime

hostname Dell

enable password 7 b125455cf679b208e79b910e85789edf

username admin password 7 1d28e9f33f99cf5c

stack-unit 0 provision S5000

interface fibrechannel 0/0

shutdown

interface fibrechannel 0/1

shutdown

...

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Compressing Conguration Files

The functionality to optimize and reduce the sizes of the conguration les is supported on the device.

You can compress the running conguration by grouping all the VLANs and the physical interfaces with the same property. Support

to store the operating conguration to the startup cong in the compressed mode and to perform an image downgrade without any

conguration loss are provided.

You can create groups of VLANs using the interface group command. This command will create non-existant VLANs specied

in a range. On successful command execution, the CLI switches to the interface group context. The conguration commands inside

the group context will be the similar to that of the existing range command.

Two existing exec mode CLIs are enhanced to display and store the running conguration in the compressed mode.

show running-config compressed and write memory compressed

The compressed conguration will group all the similar looking conguration thereby reducing the size of the conguration. For this

release, the compression will be done only for interface related conguration (VLAN & physical interfaces)

The following table describes how the standard and the compressed conguration dier:

Getting Started