Command Reference Guide

Configuration Scripting Commands
CLI Command Reference
September 2014 Page 134
HP Moonshot Switch Module CLI Command Reference
Configuration Scripting Commands
Configuration Scripting allows you to generate text-formatted script files representing the current
configuration of a system. You can upload these configuration script files to a PC or UNIX system and edit them.
Then, you can download the edited files to the system and apply the new configuration. You can apply
configuration scripts to one or more switches with no or minor modifications.
Use the
show running-config command (see “show running-config” on page 169) to capture the running
configuration into a script. Use the
copy command (see “copy” on page 196) to transfer the configuration script
to or from the switch.
You should use scripts on systems with default configuration; however, you are not prevented from applying
scripts on systems with non-default configurations.
Scripts must conform to the following rules:
• Script files are not distributed across the stack, and only live in the unit that is the master unit at the time
of the file download.
• The file extension must be .scr.
• A maximum of ten scripts are allowed on the switch.
• The combined size of all script files on the switch shall not exceed 2048 KB.
• The maximum number of configuration file command lines is 2000.
You can type single-line annotations at the command prompt to use when you write test or configuration
scripts to improve script readability. The exclamation point (!) character flags the beginning of a comment. The
comment flag character can begin a word anywhere on the command line, and all input following this character
is ignored. Any command line that begins with the “!” character is recognized as a comment line and ignored
by the parser.
The following lines show an example of a script:
! Script file for displaying management access
show telnet !Displays the information about remote connections
! Display information about direct connections
show serial
! End of the script file!
Note: To specify a blank password for a user in the configuration script, you must specify it as a space
within quotes. For example, to change the password for user jane from a blank password to hello, the
script entry is as follows:
users passwd jane
" "
hello
hello