Administrator Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................35
Audience........................................................................................................................................................................... 35
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................35
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 35
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 36
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................36
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................36
Navigating CLI Modes............................................................................................................................................... 38
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 42
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................42
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................42
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Filtering show Command Outputs................................................................................................................................. 43
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................45
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................46
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................46
Serial Console............................................................................................................................................................. 47
Mounting an NFS File System........................................................................................................................................48
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................48
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 49
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 49
Accessing the System Remotely................................................................................................................................... 50
Accessing the System Remotely............................................................................................................................. 50
Congure the Management Port IP Address.........................................................................................................50
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................50
Conguring a Username and Password...................................................................................................................51
Conguring the Enable Password...................................................................................................................................51
Manage Conguration Files.............................................................................................................................................51
File Storage.................................................................................................................................................................52
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 52
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................53
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 54
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................54
Changes in Conguration Files.................................................................................................................................55
Viewing Command History............................................................................................................................................. 55
Upgrading the Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................................... 55
4 Switch Management.................................................................................................................................... 57
Conguring Privilege Levels............................................................................................................................................57
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