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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Software Configuration Guide—Release 8.7
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Chapter 19 Configuring Dynamic Port VLAN Membership with VMPS
Backing up the VMPS Configuration File
This example shows how to return a port to static VLAN port membership:
Console> (enable)
set port membership 3/1 static
Port 3/1 vlan assignment set to static.
Console> (enable)
Backing up the VMPS Configuration File
Use the VMPS configuration file backup feature to prevent delays after a power shutdown when the
VMPS clients and servers are coming back online. After a power shutdown, the VMPS requests that are
sent by the clients are queued by the TFTP server until the VMPS server downloads the VMPS
configuration file from the VMPS server. To ensure that the client access is not delayed during a system
reboot, you can configure the switch to back up the VMPS configuration file locally and use this file
until it is has downloaded the current VMPS configuration file from the remote TFTP server.
To configure the switch to back up the VMPS configuration file, perform this task in privileged mode:
This example shows how to manually back up the VMPS configuration file:
Console> (enable)
set vmps config-file disk0:
Vlan Membership Policy Server back-up file name is set to disk0:vmps-backup-conf
ig-database.1.
Console> (enable)
This example shows how to configure the system to automatically back up the VMPS configuration file:
Console> (enable)
set vmps config-file auto-save enable
Auto save to store Vlan Membership Policy Server configuration file is enabled.
Console> (enable)
This example shows how to verify the configuration:
Console>
show vmps
VMPS Server Status:
-------------------
Management Domain (null)
State disabled
Operational Status inactive
TFTP Server default
TFTP File vmps-config-database.1
Fallback VLAN (null)
Secure Mode open
VMPS No Domain Req allow
VMPS Backup file name disk0:vmps-backup-config-database.1
VMPS Auto-Save state enabled
Task
Command
Step 1
Manually back up the VMPS configuration file.
Note
If you do not specify the filename, the
system will save the VMPS configuration
file as
vmps-backup-config-database.1
.
set vmps config-file device:
[
filename
]
Step 2
Enable an automatic backup of the VMPS
configuration file.
set vmps config-file auto-save enable | disable
Step 3
Verify the configuration.
show vmps