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23. Software Upgrade and Reboot
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Overview
The following kinds of commands are discussed in this chapter:
•
Copy
commands – These commands allow you to download or save startup
and running configurations.
•
Write
commands – These commands allow you to display information on the
current configuration, store the current configuration on the switch's
NVRAM, or reload the factory-default configuration settings.
•
Reload
commands – These commands allow you to reboot the switch with or
without saving the current configuration, or reload the factory-default
configuration settings.
•
Show
commands – These commands display information regarding the
switch configuration settings.
Note that each
write
command has an alias (or nearly alias)
copy
,
reload
or
show
command.
Description of Commands
Copy Commands
The
Copy
commands, summarized in Table 23-1, perform the following operations:
•
Download new software versions to the switch.
•
Save or load the start-up configuration.
•
Save the start-up configuration as the running configuration.
Table 23-1 Copy Commands
C o m m a n d D e s c r i p t i o n
copy application
Downloads a new software version to the switch.
copy startup-config
download-from
Loads a start-up configuration with the specified file name from a
remote server with the specified IP address.
copy startup-config
upload-to
Saves the start-up configuration on the remote server with the
specified IP address to the specified file name.
copy running-config
startup-config
Saves the running-configuration as the startup configuration. The
command is equivalent to the write memory command.