3com 4500 50-PORT User Manual

Generally, this command is used in the following situations:

■

After upgrade of software, configuration files in flash memory may not match 
the new version's software. Perform 

 command 

to erase the old configuration files.

■

When a Switch 4500 is reused on a network but in a different manner to 
previously, the original configuration file should be erased and the switch 
reconfigured.

If the configuration files do not exist in the flash memory when the Switch is 
powered on and initialized, it will choose the default setting automatically.

Related commands: 

, 

, 

.

Erase the configuration files from the flash memory of the Switch.

<4500>reset saved-configuration

The saved configuration will be erased.

Are you sure?[Y/N]y

Configuration in flash memory is being cleared.

Please wait ...

..

Configuration in flash memory is cleared.

<4500>

save [ filename | safely ]

Any view

: the name of the configuration file. It is a character string of 5 to 56 

characters.

: save the configuration file in safely mode.

Use the 

 command, to save the current configuration files to flash memory.

After finishing a group of configurations and achieving corresponding functions, 
get the current configuration files stored in the flash memory.

After a fabric is formed, if you execute the save command, every switch in the 
fabric saves the current configurations to its individual configuration file. 

If you do not enter the file-name parameter in this command, for the switches that 
have specified the configuration file for booting by startup saved-configuration 
command, the current configurations will be stored to the specified configuration 
file; and for the switches that have not specified the configuration file for booting, 
the current configurations will be stored to the default configuration file, 
4500cfg.cfg.