Dell PowerConnect 6224, Command Line Interface Manual

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Using the CLI
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Using CLI Functions and Tools
The CLI has been designed to manage the switch’s configuration file system
and to manage switch security. A number of resident tools exist to support
these and other functions.
Configuration Management
All managed systems have software images and databases that must be
configured, backed up and restored. Two software images may be stored on
the system, but only one of them is active. The other one is a backup image.
The same is true for configuration images, which store the configuration
parameters for the switch. The system has three configuration images. One
image is a memory-only image and is the current configuration image for the
switch. The second image is the one that is loaded by the system when it
reboots. There is one backup configuration image. The system also provides
methods to back up these images to a remote system.
File System Commands
All files are stored in a flat file system. The following commands are used to
perform operations on these files.
Copying Files
The copy command not only provides a method for copying files within the
file system, but also to and from remote servers. With the copy command and
URLs to identify files, the user can back up images to local or remote systems
or restore images from local or remote systems.
To use the copy command, the user specifies the source file and the
destination file. For example, copy
tftp://remotehost/pub/backupfile backup-
config
copies a file from the remote TFTP server to a local backup
Command Description
delete
file
Deletes file.
filedescr
file description
Adds a description to a file (up to 20
characters can be used).
copy
source destination
Copies a file from source file to destination
file.