User Reference Manual 8.2 08.03.2001

Activating the Configuration Changes and Saving the Configuration File
Note: You also can save active changes to the Startup configuration file from within
Configure mode by entering the save startup command.
The new configuration changes are added to the Startup configuration file stored in the control
module’s boot flash.
Viewing the Current Configuration
If you want to view the current configuration:
1. Ensure that you are in Enable mode by entering the enable command in the CLI.
2. Enter the following command to display the status of each command line:
system show active-config
The CLI displays the active configuration file with the following possible annotations:
– Commands without errors are displayed without any annotation.
– Commands with errors are annotated with an “E.”
– Comments are annotated with a “C.”
– If a particular command has been applied such that it can be expanded on additional
interfaces/modules, it is annotated with a “P”. For example, if you enable STP on all ports
in the current system, but the XP contains only one module, then the command to enable
STP will be applied at a later date when more modules have been added.
A command like stp enable et.*.* would be displayed as follows:
P: stp enable et.*.*
This indicates that it is only partially applied. If you add more modules to the XP at a later
date and then update the configuration file to encompass all of the available modules in the
XP, then the “P:” portion of the above command line would disappear when this
configuration file is displayed.
If a command that was originally configured to encompass all of the available modules on
the XP becomes only partially active (after a hotswap or some such chassis
reconfiguration), then the status of that command line automatically changes to indicate a
partial completion status, complete with “P:”.
Note: Commands with no annotation or annotated with a “P:” are not in error.
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