When you configure a new appliance, you can export and store the configuration settings for that appliance. Later, if changes occur that require you to remove or reinstall the appliance, then you can import the stored configuration data without losing any configuration settings.
You might need to import and export configuration data if errors occur that require you to remove an appliance from a collective or reinstall an appliance in a stand-alone environment. For example, when you export configuration information from an appliance that you add to a collective, you can use the import function to recover the configuration that appliance had before joining the collective. In either stand-alone or collective environments, using the import and export actions saves you the time of manually re-creating configuration information for the removed appliance.
config <import|export> -file <filename> [-silent]
The config export command accepts parameters with a value of 0 as well. In that, the command runs an archived export, which you cannot specify using the -file flag.
For command usage information, type config usage.