Users Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................37
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................37
Conventions...................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Related Documents..........................................................................................................................................................37
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 38
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................38
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................38
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................40
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 44
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................44
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................44
Command History............................................................................................................................................................45
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................45
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode........................................................................................................................... 47
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................48
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................48
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................49
Mounting an NFS File System........................................................................................................................................50
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................... 50
Default Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 51
Conguring a Host Name................................................................................................................................................ 51
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................52
Accessing the System Remotely..............................................................................................................................52
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 52
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................52
Conguring a Username and Password.................................................................................................................. 53
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................54
Manage Conguration Files............................................................................................................................................54
File Storage.................................................................................................................................................................54
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 55
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................56
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 56
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................56
Changes in Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 57
Viewing Command History............................................................................................................................................. 58
Upgrading the Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................................... 58
4 Switch Management....................................................................................................................................59
Conguring Privilege Levels........................................................................................................................................... 59
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