Concept Guide

• To avoid denial of service (DoS) attacks, a rate-limit of 10 concurrent sessions per minute in SSH is devised. Therefore, you might
experience a failure in executing SSH-related scripts when multiple short SSH commands are executed.
• If you issue an interactive command in the SSH session, the behavior may not really be interactive.
• In some cases, when you use an SSH session, when certain show commands such as show tech-support produce large volumes
of output, sometimes few characters from the output display are truncated and not displayed. This may cause one of the commands to
fail for syntax error. In such cases, if you add few newline characters before the failed command, the output displays completely.
Execution of commands on CLI over SSH does not notice the errors that have occurred while executing the command. As a result, you
cannot identify, whether a command has failed to be processed. The console output though is redirected back over SSH.
Default Conguration
Although a version of Dell EMC Networking OS is pre-loaded onto the system, the system is not congured when you power up the system
rst time (except for the default hostname, which is DellEMC). You must congure the system using the CLI.
Conguring a Host Name
The host name appears in the prompt. The default host name is DellEMC.
• Host names must start with a letter and end with a letter or digit.
• Characters within the string can be letters, digits, and hyphens.
To create a host name, use the hostname name command in Conguration mode.
hostname command example
DellEMC(conf)#hostname R1
R1(conf)#
Accessing the System Remotely
You can congure the system to access it remotely by Telnet or secure shell (SSH).
• The platform has a dedicated management port and a management routing table that is separate from the IP routing table.
• You can manage all Dell EMC Networking products in-band via the front-end data ports through interfaces assigned an IP address as
well.
Accessing the System Remotely
Conguring the system for remote access is a three-step process, as described in the following topics:
1 Congure an IP address for the management port. Congure the Management Port IP Address
2 Congure a management route with a default gateway. Congure a Management Route
3 Congure a username and password. Congure a Username and Password
Congure the Management Port IP Address
To access the system remotely, assign IP addresses to the management ports.
1 Enter INTERFACE mode for the Management port.
CONFIGURATION mode
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