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AT-WA7400 Management Software User’s Guide
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Saving
Configuration
Changes
The AT-WA7400 Wireless Access Point maintains three different
configurations.
ˆ Factory Default Configuration - This configuration consists of the
default settings shipped with the access point (as specified in
Appendix A, “Management Software Default Settings” on page 213).
You can always return the access point to the factory defaults by using
the
factory-reset command, as described in “Resetting the
Access Point to the Factory Defaults” on page 346.
ˆ Startup Configuration - The startup configuration contains the
settings with which the access point will use the next time it starts up
(for example, upon reboot).
To save configuration updates made from the CLI to the startup
configuration, you must execute the
save-running or set config
startup running command from the CLI after making changes.
ˆ Running Configuration - The running configuration contains the
settings with which the access point is currently running.
When you view or update configuration settings through the CLI using
get
,
set
,
add
, and
remove
commands, you are viewing and changing
values on the running configuration only. If you do not save the
configuration (by executing the
save-running or set config
startup running command in the CLI), you will lose any changes
you submitted via the CLI upon reboot.
The save-running command saves the running configuration as the
startup configuration. (The save-running command is a shortcut
command for
set config startup running
, which accomplishes the
same thing)
Settings updated from the CLI (with the get , set , add , and remove
commands) are not saved to the startup configuration unless you explicitly
save them via the
save-running
command. This gives you the option of
maintaining the startup configuration and trying out values on the running
configuration that you can discard (by not saving).
By contrast, configuration changes updated from the web UI are
automatically saved to both the running and startup configurations. If you
make changes from the web UI that you do not want to keep, your only
option is to reset to factory defaults. The previous startup configuration will
be lost.