Brocade Communications Systems Brocade VDX 8770-4 - Manual (Page 50)

30 Brocade VDX 8770-4 Hardware Reference Manual
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Saving your changes
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Saving your changes
Complete the following steps to make your changes persistent. This ensures that if you must reboot
the switch, the preferences you have set will be in force when the switch comes back up.
1. If necessary, log on to the switch by Telnet, using the admin account.
2. In privileged EXEC mode, enter the copy running-config startup-config command.
switch# copy running-config startup-config
This operation will modify your startup configuration. Do you want to
continue? [Y/N]: Y
3. When the confirmation question appears, answer Y for Yes.
The current running configuration, containing all of your latest changes, is saved to the startup
configuration. The next time the switch reboots, all of the changes will remain in force.
Verifying correct operation
Complete the following steps to verify correct operation for the Brocade VDX 8770-4.
1. Check the LEDs to verify that all components are functional.
2. If necessary, log in to the switch by Telnet, using the admin account.
3. Enter the show chassis command to verify that the Brocade VDX 8770-4 and its components
are operating correctly.
4. Enter the show interface command to show the status of all of the ports in the line cards.
5. Enter the show fabric all command to verify the operation of the Brocade VDX 8770-4 in the
fabric.
Backing up the configuration
Complete the following steps to back up the configuration for the Brocade VDX 8770-4. If you back
up your configuration to a USB device, be sure to use a Brocade-branded USB device. The Brocade
USB device comes pre-configured with four directories, /firmware, /config, /support, and
/firmwarekey. Configuration backups are automatically saved in the /config directory.
1. If necessary, log on to the switch by Telnet, using the admin account.
2. You can choose to back up the startup configuration or the running configuration or both. To
back up these configurations, use the copy command. These examples show backing up the
configurations to a Brocade-branded USB device.