Re: Lab configuration script and service config

You can save the preconfig (full configuration) on flash and replace running config without a reload. (assuming flash is not erased everytime)

#config replace flash:preconfig

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On 23 Aug 2011, at 21:41, Carlos G Mendioroz <tron_at_huapi.ba.ar> wrote:

> Not sure you grasp what the issue is.
> The "write memory" will take 5 seconds, but the reload on a 2811 takes 5 minutes. And Aaron recipe was write memory plus reload.
>
> The whole issue is to set a router (in a lab environment) to a known state (i.e. a presaved configuration) from an unknown state in the least time. This has to be done every time you want to set up a lab.
>
> The steps I was doing were:
> 1- write erase + reload (takes you to a known state)
> 2- conf t + load config
>
> and in doing step 2, service config was getting in the way.
>
> Now, I'm doing an xmodem transfer to flash (via console, which is the only communication I have, or else I have to setup some connectivity
> to a tftp server, and that involves configuring more devices), then
> copy to startup and then a reload. Only one reload cycle, which is
> AFAIK, the optimum.
>
> -Carlos
>
> Shaughn Smith @ 23/08/2011 13:58 -0300 dixit:
>> Not sure you grasp what write memory is. It will take literally a couple of seconds and same your config changes to the startup config. Not sure where xmodem comes into this CCIE # 23962 (SP)
>> Sent from my iPhone 4
>> On 23 Aug 2011, at 12:11 PM, Carlos G Mendioroz <tron_at_huapi.ba.ar> wrote:
>>> That is way too costly on a 2811, 5 minutes!
>>> What I saw yesterday is "service config" in the running config
>>> some 2 minutes after the script put a "no service config" in
>>> there. Nuts.
>>>
>>> I guess I'm changing the approach, I will be writing to the startup
>>> config and then reload with the final config in. I dropped that
>>> because 2800s do not support copy from xmodem to startup, but
>>> I will be writing to flash and then copy from flash to startup.
>>>
>>> -Carlos
>>>
>>> Aaron Riemer @ 23/08/2011 01:06 -0300 dixit:
>>>> Hi Carlos,
>>>> I believe you need to write memory and reload for the messages to go away.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> -Aaron.
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>>>> Carlos G Mendioroz
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, 23 August 2011 4:10 AM
>>>> To: Cisco certification
>>>> Subject: Lab configuration script and service config
>>>> Hi,
>>>> has anybody seen "service config" reappearing by itself ?
>>>> I'm trying to solve an issue where a script that is applying
>>>> configuration to a router gets confused because of interleaved
>>>> "%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/HQ-2-confg (Timed out)"
>>>> messages.
>>>> I'm doing "no service config" and "no logging console" right away,
>>>> but the messages keep showing up.
>>>> Any clues ?
>>>> -Carlos
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