Avaya a500 Guia Do Utilizador

Cajun A500 ATM Switch User Guide

4-1

Managing the Physical Network

Overview

Managing the network from an Cajun A500 perspective is done from either the Cajun

A500 Manager or from each Cajun A500 switch using the Command Line Interface

(CLI). See Chapters 5 through 1 3 for information on the available CLI commands.

Saving and Restoring Configuration Parameters

This section describes the saving and restoring of configuration information.

Note: Not everything that you configure is saved within NVRAM. For example,

PVCs, PVPs, and SPVCs are not saved. Therefore, upon reboot they are lost.

The

consolerc

file is in a protected area on Flash. Clear the

consolerc

file by

executing the

file erase

command. Next, issue a

tftp get

command to

download the

consolerc

file from the TFTP server.

There is a method of retaining non-NVRAM parameters when a reboot occurs. This is

accomplished by entering each of the configuration commands within a file called

consolerc,

which is stored in the

MAIN

section of the internal flash. When the Cajun

A500 reboots, the system looks for this file and configures the system according to each

of the commands it parses in this file.

U You can enter any information concerning PVCs, PVPs and SVCs. You can also

enter parameters that reside in NVRAM providing there is available syntax for that

specific command line. The

consolerc

only enables you to enter simple

commands line by line. When running the

consolerc

file, the Cajun A500 does

not generate status messages or indicate which command it is executing.

U You can have the Cajun A500 dynamically read the

consolerc

file and configure

the system by doing a

file exec consolerc

. Remember to name the

configuration file

consolerc

, because upon boot up, the system looks only at the

consolerc

file and ignores any other ascii configuration file you have set up.