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Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router Getting Started Guide
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Chapter Configuring General Router Features
Managing Configuration Sessions
Figure 12 Two-Stage Configuration Process
Global configuration mode is used to configure features, such as routing protocols and interfaces.
Administration configuration mode is used to assign hardware components to .
The following sections describe the management options for configuration sessions:
• Displaying the Active Configuration Sessions, page 69
• Starting a Configuration Session, page 70
• Starting an Exclusive Configuration Session, page 71
• Displaying Configuration Details with show Commands, page 71
• Saving the Target Configuration to a File, page 79
• Loading the Target Configuration from a File, page 80
• Loading an Alternative Configuration at System Startup, page 80
• Clearing All Changes to a Target Configuration, page 80
• Committing Changes to the Running Configuration, page 81
• Reloading a Failed Configuration, page 83
• Exiting a Configuration Submode, page 83
• Returning Directly to Configuration Mode from a Submode, page 84
• Ending a Configuration Session, page 84
• Aborting a Configuration Session, page 85
• Configuring the SDRRSP Hostname, page 85
• Configuring the Management Ethernet Interface, page 85
• Specifying the Management Ethernet Interface Name in CLI Commands, page 86
• Displaying the Available Management Ethernet Interfaces, page 87
• Configuring the Management Ethernet Interface, page 89
Displaying the Active Configuration Sessions
Before you start a configuration session, you should check if there are other configuration sessions in
progress. More than one user can open a target configuration session at a time, allowing multiple users
to work on separate target configurations.
EXEC mode
Global
configuration
mode
Administration
mode
Administration
configuration
mode
Stage 1:
Enter configuration
changes or load a
saved configuration.
Save configuration
changes to a file.
Stage 2:
"Commit" changes
to the running
configuration.
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