Saving Configuration Changes; Where To Go Next - Cisco Catalyst 2950 Software Manual

Saving Configuration Changes

Step 4 Enter the switch password.
The User EXEC prompt appears on the management station.
Note Copies of the CMS pages that you display are saved in your browser memory cache until you exit the
browser session. A password is not required to redisplay these pages, including the Cisco Systems
Access page. You can access the CLI by clicking Web Console - HTML access to the command line
interface from a cached copy of the Cisco Systems Access page. To prevent unauthorized access to CMS
and the CLI, exit your browser to end the browser session.
Saving Configuration Changes
The show command always displays the running configuration of the switch. When you make a
configuration change to a switch or switch cluster, the change becomes part of the running configuration.
The change does not automatically become part of the config.text file in Flash memory, which is the
startup configuration used each time the switch restarts. If you do not save your changes to Flash
memory, they are lost when the switch restarts.
To save all configuration changes to Flash memory, you must enter the write memory command in
privileged EXEC mode.
The write memory privileged EXEC command does not apply to the Catalyst 1900 and Catalyst 2820
Note
switches, which automatically save configuration changes to Flash memory as they occur.
Tip As you make cluster configuration changes, make sure that you periodically save the configuration. The
configuration is saved on the command and member switches.

Where to Go Next

The rest of this guide provides descriptions of the software features and general switch administration.
Table 4-2 on page 4-7
where the feature is described and CLI procedures are provided.
Refer to the Catalyst 2950 Desktop Switch Command Reference for complete descriptions of the switch
commands.
For information about the standard IOS Release 12.1 commands, refer to the IOS documentation set
Note
available from the Cisco.com home page at Service and Support > Technical Documents . On the Cisco
Product Documentation home page, select Release 12.1 from the Cisco IOS Software drop-down list.
Catalyst 2950 Desktop Switch Software Configuration Guide
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lists the defaults for all key features and gives the page numbers in this guide
Chapter 3 Using the Command-Line Interface
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