Users Guide

• View the running-configuration.
EXEC Privilege mode
show running-config
• View the startup-configuration.
EXEC Privilege mode
show startup-config
The output of the dir command also shows the read/write privileges, size (in bytes), and date of modification for each file.
Dell#dir
Directory of flash:
1 drw- 32768 Jan 01 1980 00:00:00 .
2 drwx 512 Jul 23 2007 00:38:44 ..
3 drw- 8192 Mar 30 1919 10:31:04 TRACE_LOG_DIR
4 drw- 8192 Mar 30 1919 10:31:04 CRASH_LOG_DIR
5 drw- 8192 Mar 30 1919 10:31:04 NVTRACE_LOG_DIR
6 drw- 8192 Mar 30 1919 10:31:04 CORE_DUMP_DIR
7 d--- 8192 Mar 30 1919 10:31:04 ADMIN_DIR
8 -rw- 33059550 Jul 11 2007 17:49:46 FTOS-EF-7.4.2.0.bin
9 -rw- 27674906 Jul 06 2007 00:20:24 FTOS-EF-4.7.4.302.bin
10 -rw- 27674906 Jul 06 2007 19:54:52 boot-image-FILE
11 drw- 8192 Jan 01 1980 00:18:28 diag
12 -rw- 7276 Jul 20 2007 01:52:40 startup-config.bak
13 -rw- 7341 Jul 20 2007 15:34:46 startup-config
14 -rw- 27674906 Jul 06 2007 19:52:22 boot-image
15 -rw- 27674906 Jul 06 2007 02:23:22 boot-flash
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View Configuration Files
Configuration files have three commented lines at the beginning of the file, as shown in the following example, to help you track the last
time any user made a change to the file, which user made the changes, and when the file was last saved to the startup-configuration.
In the running-configuration file, if there is a difference between the timestamp on the “Last configuration change” and “Startup-config
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 Configuration Files
You can optimize and reduce the sizes of the configuration files.
You can compress the running configuration by grouping all the VLANs and the physical interfaces with the same property. Support to
store the operating configuration to the startup config in the compressed mode and to perform an image downgrade without any
configuration loss are provided.
You can create groups of VLANs using the interface group command. This command will create nonexistent VLANs specified in a
range. On successful command execution, the CLI switches to the interface group context. The configuration 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 configuration in the compressed mode.
show running-config compressed and write memory compressed
The compressed configuration will group all the similar looking configuration thereby reducing the size of the configuration. For this
release, the compression will be done only for interface related configuration (VLAN & physical interfaces)
The following table describes how the standard and the compressed configuration differ:
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