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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-17256-03, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
Chapter 16 Managing Configuration Files
Working with Configuration Files
Step 8 Click Apply.
Performing Other File Manipulation Tasks
To perform the following CLI-specific tasks, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration
Guide:
• Displaying file contents
• Displaying the last line in a file
• Saving output to a file
• Moving files
• Compressing and uncompressing files
• Executing commands specified in a script
• Setting the delay time
Working with Configuration Files
Configuration files can contain some or all of the commands needed to configure one or more switches.
For example, you might want to download the same configuration file to several switches that have the
same hardware configuration so that they have identical module and port configurations.
This section describes how to work with configuration files and has the following topics:
• Downloading Configuration Files to the Switch, page 16-7
• Saving the Configuration, page 16-8
• Backing Up the Current Configuration, page 16-9
Downloading Configuration Files to the Switch
You can configure a switch in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family by using configuration files you create or
download from another switch. In addition, you can store configuration files on a bootflash device on
the supervisor module and you can configure the switch using a configuration stored on an external
CompactFlash disk.
Before you begin downloading a configuration file using a remote server, do the following:
• Ensure the configuration file to be downloaded is in the correct directory on the remote server.
• Ensure that the permissions on the file are set correctly. Permissions on the file should be set to
world-read.
• Ensure the switch has a route to the remote server. The switch and the remote server must be in the
same subnetwork if you do not have a router or default gateway to route traffic between subnets.
Check connectivity to the remote server using ping.
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