Startup config missing in MDS9020 switch

I get failure message when copying running config to startup config.
In bootflash://
I see only running-config and startup-config is missing. is it possible to create startup-config? how do I fix this issue?

Can you post your telnet session when you copy running-config startup-config and the subsequent error message?

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Cisco 3750X Switch, Observing change in Running & Startup Config

Hi,
I have a cisco catalyst 3750X switch running with c3750e-universalk9-mz.152-1.E1.bin, where I'm able to see the running configuration & Startup configuration on the device is not in Sync even after saving configuration to the NVRAM.
Startup Configuration is the one which is required for my network to work properly, but as I'm able to see running configuration is adding some of the configuration which is not actually required in the template. Can anyone help me to get this issue addressed.
Configuration attached.

Can you try this command:
Switch#copy startup-config running-config
And then check if you are still face the same issue?
HTH
Regards
Inayath

Enabling ssh with a startup config or similar?

Hello,
Im am currently testing the new features of IOS 12.2 55 SE1 called "Smart Install".
I got it working even though it still has many issues but that's probably because it is a very new functionality.
Anyways, we are using it currently in a lab-environment to test the "zero-touch" replacement of defective Switches. In that case the Director of the SI Network knows what config the defective Switch has saved last.
It then uses that exact config to deploy to the replaced switch as a startup config.
For Security Reasons we have the command "transport input ssh" on all lines enabled. (Makes sense if you want to shut out telnet).
Now, when the new Switch receives the IOS Update (which is also delievered in Smart Install) and therefore reboots, it now uses our startup config.
With the above mentioned command "transport input ssh" on the lines, we have no way of connecting to the newly replaced switch.
"Crypto keys cannot be generated on startup" is the message I see on the Serial-Console output.
Has anyone got an idea how we could work around this?
Is there a way to tell a switch he has to generate an rsa certificate to enable ssh without "touching" it?
I know that with the command "transport input all" this issue would not be an issue, but that is not an option for a possible productive Release. Since we are using a config of a switch that was running productively, the running config cannot allow telnet to be used..
I have asked Google, used this forum's search functionality and found nothing. I am absolutely sure though, that this is an issue many Cisco Users have to work with, so I was suprised not to find anything.
Details of our lab:
Director Switch: C3560 with IOS 12.2 55 SE1
Client Switch (to be replaced): C2960 IOS 12.2 55 SE1
Both have the crypto-image installed.

Hello Richard,
Thanks for your answer.
Smart Install gets the config to the new switch by telnet. Since a factory-new Switch can do telnet, the initial config comes from the director. It connects to the switch over a non-standard telnet port and issues the copy command to get the startup config from the tftp server. After that it does the same with the IOS. We can't really do anything because every interaction with the new switch stops the smartinstall process.
In your desscribed solution (I will test it later this week) it could be a working solution for deploying new switches.
In my Scenario however there currently seems to be no way to enable ssh when the startup config is the last known configuration from the switch that died, beacuse this startup config we cannot manually edit (it would defeat the purpose of this feature), since it is backed up by the director and the logic of deciding wheter or not this config is to be used runs on the director.
I am in contact with "our guys" from cisco, and they are trying to get feedback from the developer team of this feature. I will keep testing new releases for this issue and will report any progress.

Backup aborted - Unable to receive file 'startup-config'

I'm seeing this on some 2950s and an old 2924 that I have. Is this issue related to the age of the switches? It's picking up drivers and successfully testing credentials. So I'm just checking.

It doesn't appear to be the lack of a startup-config file. I checked the 3 affected devices. The issue is possible destinations. There is no option in the IOS running on these devices to set the destination as "http:" See the output below for copy startup-config ?
flash:          Copy to flash: file system
ftp:            Copy to ftp: file system
null:           Copy to null: file system
nvram:          Copy to nvram: file system
rcp:            Copy to rcp: file system
running-config Update (merge with) current system configuration
startup-config Copy to startup configuration
system:         Copy to system: file system
tftp:           Copy to tftp: file system
As much as I would say this wouldn't be a Cisco OnPlus priority, one possible coding workaround might be a lightweight tftp server running on the OnPlus device and a modification of the code to attempt http: first and on failure to startup the tftp server and attempt to use that method and then shut the tftp server back down, for security reasons. Just a thought.

SRW208G download startup config

I am trying to download the config data for my switch via the Telnet or SSH interface, but cannot make it work. I have confimed my TFTP server works OK. The switch is running v1.04 firmware. If I leave the Filename field blank I get an "Unknown Error" response. If I try to enter a filename, it doesn't mattter what I enter I always get "File not found" back as if the system is trying to upload rather than download?!
Source File is set to "startup-config" and destination "tftp".
Why won't this work? Is there some undocumented trick to getting this to work? I need to access via Telnet/SSH in order to automate the config backup.
After a struggle I managed to download the file via the HTTP interface, but only after accessing the URL directly instead of via the frames. There seems to be some serious issues with the Web interface in that it won't work at all with Mozilla and barely works with IE v7.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I've finally got it to work. You have to set a password for the user you're logged into the switch as, i.e. "admin". If you leave the password blank as per factory defaults you cannot download the configuration data via Telnet or SSH. This seems somewhat bizzare as you can download the config via the Web interface without setting a password.

Copy startup-config tftp + %Error opening tftp://192.168.0.12/router-confg (Socket error)

Please advise me on the below error;; I am using tftpd for tft
Router#copy startup-config tftp
Address or name of remote host []? 192.168.0.12
Destination filename [router-confg]?
%Error opening tftp://192.168.0.12/router-confg (Socket error)

This was the right answer.. Solved
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/thread/56041
im surprised you can ping without attaching a crossover cable.
because if your only using your console port to connect your pc...then you dont have ip connectivity
i think the cable your using to connect your pc to your router fa port is a straight through ethernet cable....
you see it attaches to a switch port in the back of your home router(not cisco router)
not a router port.
so you need a different cable depending on how you want to connect to your router.
you can check to see if it is a crossover cable
just peer down the end of the cable you can see the colours...
if they are in the same order on each end...then it is a straight through cable
if they have a different order...then it is a crossover cable
if your connecting to your pc via your home router.
then yes.....you need to plug a straight through cable into your cisco router from your home router
and it will work
if your connecting your pc directly to your router
then you need to use a crossover cable from the back of your pc...to your cisco router.
and it will work

Copy startup-config running-config

I am replacing a css-11150 switch. I received as version 4.01; therefore I upgraded it to version 6.10-405. The upgrade went fine.
Then I ftp the config file to the css box and copy it to startup-config. It worked ok also.
The problem started here -> when I copy startup-config to running-config, it appeared copied ok (no error message), but when I did a "sh run", the running config is empty, (no statements at all). My startup config has about 100 lines of coding. I hate to type in every single line.
Do any one running into this kind of strange problem?
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I upgraded from Ver 4 to ver 6.10 using the upgrade script.
upgrade
To upload the startup-config
copy ftp
Below is the "sh start", "sh run" "sh ver",
as you can see, when I did a sh run, it returns nothing. (i deleted some lines on sh start here since it is too big to post)
CSS11150# sh startup-config
!*************************** GLOBAL ***************************
sntp server 168.38.250.142 version 1
snmp location "701 West 51 st, Austin, TX 78751 "
snmp community Shirt1 read-only
snmp contact "Network Engineer, NGIT, (512)377-2222"
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 168.38.131.1 1
!************************* INTERFACE *************************
interface e1
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e2
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e3
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e4
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e5
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e6
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e7
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e8
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e9
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e10
--Cancelled---
CSS11150# sh run
CSS11150# copy startup-config running-config
Copying(\)
CSS11150# sh run
CSS11150# sh start
^
%% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
CSS11150# sh startup-config
!*************************** GLOBAL ***************************
sntp server 168.38.250.142 version 1
snmp location "701 West 51 st, Austin, TX 78751 "
snmp community Shirt1 read-only
snmp contact "Network Engineer, NGIT, (512)377-2222"
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 168.38.x.x
!************************* INTERFACE *************************
interface e1
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e2
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e3
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e4
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e5
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e6
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e7
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e8
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e9
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e10
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e11
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e12
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
interface e15
bridge vlan 12
phy 100Mbits-FD
description "Link to PRSSWINTERS1-7/21"
interface e16
phy 100Mbits-FD
description "Link to PRSSWINTERS1-7/1"
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circuit VLAN1
ip address 168.38.x.x 255.255.255.128
circuit VLAN12
ip address 168.38.x.y 255.255.255.128
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service Web29-tare.dfps.state.tx.us
ip address 168.38.49.122
protocol tcp
port 8010
keepalive type tcp
service Web29-tarefile.dfps.state.tx.us
ip address 168.38x.x
protocol tcp
keepalive type tcp
port 8010
service iws-86
protocol tcp
ip address 168.38.x.x
keepalive port 80
keepalive type tcp
active
content www.txabusehotline.org
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protocol tcp
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CSS11150#
CSS11150# sh run
CSS11150# sh version
Version: ap0610405 (6.10 Build 405)
Flash (Locked): 4.01 Build 32
Flash (Operational): 6.10 Build 405
Type: PRIMARY
Licensed Cmd Set(s): Standard Feature Set
CSS11150#
CSS11150#

Transparent Mode - running-config are not saved to Startup-config, Normal ?

I config a switch to be a Transparent Mode, then I issue the copy run start command, then I issue the show start-up command, however the Running-config is not copy to the start-up config
Is it Normal for the switch ???
vtp mode transparent
int fa0/1
switchport mode access
switchport access vlan 5
int fa0/2
switchport mode access
switchport access vlan 6

Hi,
If you use transparent instead of server or client, there should be no problem wit copy run start. (The difference is that in this case your switch doesn't participate in the VTP communication, only forward the received messages and doesn't update its vtp db).
During the copy running-config startup-config did you get some error message? (not enough space or something) PLease first check the flash with the show flash command.
Or try to save your running to flas not to startup config: copy running flash:test.cfg
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bye
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Does anybody know why I'm not able to upload startup-config from SCE device to FTP server ?
I use command:
copy startup-config ftp://anonymous:[email protected]/startup-config.txt
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What's wrong with it ? Another client from my PC is able to connect to this FTP server

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Authentication failed on device 3 times. Failed to detect SSH version running on the device. PRIMARY-STARTUP config Fetch Operation failed for TFTP

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I tried to TELNET on devices via Putty port 22 no good. Please help?
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Startup Script missing after uninstalling old Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign CC - although I kept Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign CC 2014!! Any help would be highly appreciated! Thank you in advance :)

Startup Script missing after uninstalling old Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign CC - although I kept Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign CC 2014!! Any help would be highly appreciated! Thank you in advance

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Copying startup-config file

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I have one armed mode CSS11503. I can't sync. both Load balancers.
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you can copy the config from one css to a ftp server.
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Edit the file and adjust circuit ip addresses and app settings.
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StartUp Plug Missing

Hello Experts
I am getting StartUp Plug Missing Error.
actually i add two window in one component and after deleting first one i am getting this error.
Please Help Me.

Hi Sunny,
The interface view of the component and its attached window should have a inbound plug of type startup.
The Web Dynpro application uses this plug to launch the window via interface view.
If this error comes it means
1) The application is not pointing to a component without startup plug mentioned.
OR
2) The interface view and window doesn't have a plug of type startup.
For 2) -> Open the controller of interface view and check that there is a plug of type startup. If not create one by name Startup and type startup.
Check the same in window controller. Create a plug of same name "Startup" and type startup.
Go to the application controller and check that in target interface view and plug you have have mentioned this interface view and this "Startup plug".
For 1) Go to the application controller and check that in target interface view and plug you have have mentioned is of type startup (Check Interface to find which plug is of type startup). Check that you have plug of type startup in interface view and window and of same name.
Hope it helps.
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Startup config error after upgrading to ASA from PIX

Hey guys. I get the following startup-config errors when reloading our ASA. A pix->asa conversion was just done on it. The ASA is currently running 8.2(5), and I am trying to get ready to update it to the most stable release, and wanted to make sure all my ducks are in a row. What is going on with the "will be identity translated for outbound"? This is part of the VPN configuration, and I understand nat0 is saying to not nat it. Is this something that I should be worried about? The ASA is not in production currently.
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.........nat 0 10.37.0.116 will be identity translated for outbound
*** Output from config line 406, "nat (inside) 0 10.37.0.1..."
nat 0 xx.xx.xx.xx (PUBLIC IP) will be identity translated for outbound
*** Output from config line 431, "nat (inside) 0 xx.xx.xx..."
Line 406
nat (inside) 0 10.37.0.116 255.255.255.255
Line 431
nat (inside) 0 xx.xx.xx.xx (PUBLIC IP) 255.255.255.255
Corresponding global
nat (outside) 0 access-list outside_inbound_nat0_acl outside
nat (inside) 0 access-list inside_outbound_nat0_acl
ACL
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I would imagine that there is no problem as the firewall has not given any kind of error message.
I do personally wonder sometimes why is it so (atleast in the 8.2 softares etc) that the firewall shows a message on the CLI when you are for example configuring a "global" / "nat" command pair.
I wonder if this falls into the same category.
The configuration format for NAT has stayed pretty same leading to the 8.2 softwares. I'm not totally sure what software you are going to go for but you seem to have the latest 8.2 series software so next steps are already 8.3 / 8.4 / 9.0 / 9.1
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Help: startup-config file open failed (Not enough space)

Who can help me ? I've an uc500 and he stil running. Now i want to change something and want to save the configuration first. But the following message appears : startup-config file open failed (Not enough space)
this is the output from a dir flash:
Directory of nvram:/
227 -rw-       25897                    <no date> startup-config
228 ----        1933                    <no date> private-config
229 -rw-       25897                    <no date> underlying-config
    1 ----          83                    <no date> persistent-data
    2 -rw-           0                    <no date> ifIndex-table
    3 -rw-         577                    <no date> IOS-Self-Sig#1.cer
    4 -rw-         615                    <no date> IOS-Self-Sig#2.cer
    5 -rw-         660                    <no date> vlan.dat
    6 -rw-         107                    <no date> cca.xml
    7 -rw-         586                    <no date> IOS-Self-Sig#3.cer
262144 bytes total (227094 bytes free)

OK.
Try this:
conf t
service compress-config
And see if that helps.
If not, see if you can tftp the running config off the router and TFTP it back to startup-config:
copy run tftp
copy tftp start
Then you can try a reload and see if it is cured.
I googled and found a few cases where alot of ACLs or NAT rules could cause MALOC errors (you would see those in your logs) when implemented and could manifest itself in this condition, which could be cured after the next reload, which is why I suggested that.
Of course, dont be remote when you do this and only do it during a maintenance window.
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