Working with System Configuration in Gaia Clish

You can save your Gaia configuration settings as a ready-to-run CLI shell script.

This feature lets you quickly restore your system configuration after a system failure or migration.

Note - You can only do a migration using the same Gaia version on the source and target computers.

Important:

  • In a Management Data Plane Separation (MDPS) environment (see sk138672), you must run these commands in each plane.

  • Gaia OS does not support the "save configuration <FILE>" command when the output format is set to XML in this scenario:

    1. Connect to the command line.

    2. Log in to Gaia Clish.

    3. Configure the output to the XML format:

      • set clienv output xml

      • save config

    4. Run:

      • save configuration MyGaiaConfig.txt

    5. The output file contains the configuration in the plain-text format instead of the expected XML format.

  • On Scalable Platforms (ElasticXL, Maestro, and Chassis), you must run the applicable commands in Gaia gClish of the applicable Security Group.

  • Maestro Security Groups that contain different Security Appliance models do not support Gaia Backup operations (in the Global Gaia Portal or Global Gaia Clish).

    To collect or import a Gaia Backup in such a Security Group, connect directly to Gaia Portal or Gaia Clish on each Security Appliance in the Security Group.

Syntax

save configuration <Name of Script>

load configuration <Name of Script>

show configuration

This example shows part of the configuration settings as last saved to a CLI shell script:

mygaia> show configuration
# 
# Configuration of mygaia 
# Language version: 10.0v1 
# 
# Exported by admin on Mon Mar 19 15:06:22 2012 
# 
set hostname mygaia 
set timezone Asia / Jerusalem 
set password-controls min-password-length 6 
set password-controls complexity 2 
set password-controls palindrome-check true 
set password-controls history-checking true 
set password-controls history-length 10 
set password-controls password-expiration never 
set ntp active off 
set router-id 6.6.6.103 
set ipv6-state off 
set snmp agent off 
set snmp agent-version any 
set snmp community public read-only 
set snmp traps trap authorizationError disable 
set snmp traps trap coldStart disable 
set snmp traps trap configurationChange disable 
... ... ...[truncated for brevity]... ... ... 
mygaia>