Administrator 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 are preserved after a system reboot.
Example of the show running-config Command
Dell#show running-config
Current Configuration ...
! Version 9.4(0.0)
! Last configuration change at Tue Mar 11 21:33:56 2014 by admin
! Startup-config last updated at Tue Mar 11 12:11:00 2014 by default
!
<output truncated for brevity>
Compressing Conguration Files
You can optimize and reduce the sizes of the conguration les.
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 nonexistent 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:
Table 6. Standard and Compressed
Congurations
int vlan 2
no ip address
no shut
int vlan 3
tagged te 1/1
no ip address
shut
int vlan 4
tagged te 1/1
no ip address
shut
int vlan 5
tagged te 1/1
no ip address
shut
int vlan 100
no ip address
no shut
int vlan 1000
ip address 1.1.1.1/16
no shut
int te 1/1
no ip address
switchport
shut
int te 1/2
no ip address
shut
int te 1/3
no ip address
shut
int te 1/4
no ip address
shut
int te 1/10
no ip address
shut
int te 1/34
ip address 2.1.1.1/16
shut
Dell# show running-cong Dell# show running-cong compressed
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