what does event type "configuration full" mean?

[gwhynott]

Hello,

thanks in advanced for any comments.

I recieved an email from our 6500 alerting me that the confiuration is full,  i assumed it meant the start-up config,  but it isn't that large..

COR1VSS2#dir system:
Directory of system:/

    2  dr-x           0                    <no date>  memory
    1  -rw-       59020  May 11 2011 18:42:04 -04:00  running-config
   12  dr-x           0                    <no date>  vfiles

No space information available
COR1VSS2#

thanks again for your time,

greg

[yjdabear]

If the exact verbiage was "Configuration buffer full, can't add command...", try:

Router#conf t
Router(config)#service compress-config
Router#wr

[gwhynott]

thanks for that,  but it wasn't tthe error..  here is some copy/pasting:

    Subject:     System Notification From COR1VSS2 - configuration:full - 2011-05-12 13:00:00 GMT-04:00

2011-05-12 13:00:00 GMT-04:00
Configuration

configuration
full
Cisco Systems
Catalyst 6500 Series Switches

thanks anyway yjdabear

greg

[yjdabear]

This email appears to be sent by the Cisco Call Home feature. It could still be the startup-config size issue. You can verify that by posting the output of "dir nvram:" as well as trying to execute "copy run start" and see if it returns "configuration buffer full..."

[Joe Clarke · Accepted solution]

The "full" here has nothing to do with a status, but rather the fact that the device since an SCH message with the full configuration.  This is not a problem, just a notice.  The sub-types can be full or delta for the configuration and inventory types.

[gwhynott]

nice.  thanks for the info!

thank you both yjdabear and Joseph Clarke for your time. 

take care,

greg

[Martin Ermel]

also, there is a good document about Call Home feature and on page 8 of the doc there is an abstract on the message types:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/smart_call_home/Smart_Call_Home_Technical_White_Paper.pdf