To see the set commands that are run to make your Vyatta configured the way it is, use the vyatta-config-gen-sets.pl script:

# sudo /opt/vyatta/sbin/vyatta-config-gen-sets.pl

This will output every single command that was run to get your system configured to where it is now. This is great for copying and pasting default bits to all your Vyatta servers, such as static routes config, package repository config, firewall config, etc. You can put this in your .bashrc to have a shortcut to it:

alias gensets='/opt/vyatta/sbin/vyatta-config-gen-sets.pl'