Purpose
Command or Action
configuration filename device-confg. If you omit the
address, the device uses the broadcast address.
• You can specify more than one host configuration file.
The Cisco IOS software tries them in order entered
until it loads one. This procedure can be useful for
keeping files with different configuration information
loaded on a network server.
Enables the system to automatically load the host file upon
restart.
service config
Example:
Step 4
Device(config)# service config
Exits global configuration mode.
end
Example:
Step 5
Device(config)# end
Saves the running configuration to the startup configuration
file.
copy system:running-config nvram:startup-config
Example:
Step 6
Device# copy system:running-config
nvram:startup-config
Example
In the following example, a device is configured to download the host configuration file named
hostfile1 and the network configuration file named networkfile1. The device uses TFTP and the
broadcast address to obtain the file:
Device#
configure terminal
Device(config)#
boot host tftp:hostfile1
Device(config)#
boot network tftp:networkfile1
Device(config)#
service config
Device(config)#
end
Device#
copy system:running-config nvram:startup-config
Feature History for Managing Configuration Files
This table provides release and related information for features explained in this module.
These features are available on all releases subsequent to the one they were introduced in, unless noted
otherwise.
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Feature History for Managing Configuration Files
