Dell S5148F-ON OS10 Enterprise Edition User Guide Release 10.3.2E-R2 - Page 34

NOTE: If the OS10# prompt does not return output, the candidate-configuration and running-configuration files match. Prevent configuration changes You can prevent configuration changes on sessions other than the current CLI session using the lock command. Use the lock and unlock commands in EXEC mode to respectively prevent and allow configuration changes on other sessions. When you enter the lock command on a CLI session, users cannot make configuration changes across any other active CLI sessions. When you close the CLI session on which you entered the lock command, configuration changes are automatically allowed on all other sessions. Lock configuration changes OS10# lock Unlock configuration changes OS10# unlock Change to transaction-based configuration To change to transaction-based configuration mode for a session, enter the start transaction command 1 Change to transaction-based configuration in EXEC mode. start transaction 2 Enable, for example, an interface from INTERFACE mode. interface ethernet 1/1/1/ no shutdown 3 Save the configuration. do commit NOTE: After you enter the do commit command, the current session switches back to the default behavior of committing all configuration changes automatically. Save configuration changes manually OS10# start transaction OS10# configure terminal OS10(config)# OS10(config)# interface ethernet 1/1/1 OS10(config-if-eth1/1/1)# no shutdown OS10(config-if-eth1/1/1)# do commit Back up or restore configuration The running configuration contains the current system configuration which you can copy to and from a server for backup and restore purposes. You can also copy the running configuration locally to and from the home: and config: directories on the switch. The startup configuration file is maintained in the config system folder and is called system.xml. When you make changes to configuration files, use the reload command to reboot OS10 with the updated configuration. Copy the running configuration to the startup configuration OS10# copy running-configuration startup-configuration 34 Getting Started