Reference Guide

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Install the OS10 image on an ONIE-enabled switch with an installed OS10 license. See Install OS10 license for complete instructions.

CLI Basics

The OS10 command-line interface (CLI) is the software interface you use to access a device running the software — from the console or

through a network connection. The CLI is an OS10-specic command shell that runs on top of a Linux-based operating system kernel. By

leveraging industry-standard tools and utilities, the CLI provides a powerful set of commands that you can use to monitor and congure

devices running OS10.

User accounts

OS10 denes two categories of user accounts — use admin for both the username and password to log into the CLI, or use

linuxadmin to log into the Linux shell.

Key CLI features

Consistent

command names

Commands that provide the same type of function have the same name, regardless of the portion of the system

on which they are operating. For example, all show commands display software information and statistics, and all

clear commands erase various types of system information.

Available commands Information about available commands is provided at each level of the CLI command hierarchy. You can enter a

question mark (?) at any level and view a list of the available commands, along with a short description of each

command.

Command

completion

Command completion for command names (keywords) and for command options is available at each level of the

hierarchy. To complete a command or option that you have partially entered, press the Tab key or the Spacebar. If

the partially entered letters being a string that uniquely identies a command, the complete command name

appears. A beep indicates that you have entered an ambiguous command, and the possible completions display.

Completion also applies to other strings, such as lenames, interface names, usernames, and conguration

statements.

CLI command modes

The OS10 CLI has two top-level modes:

• EXEC mode — Used to monitor, troubleshoot, check status, and network connectivity.

• CONFIGURATION mode — Used to congure network devices.

When you enter CONFIGURATION mode, you are changing the current operating conguration, called the running conguration. By

default, all conguration changes are automatically saved to the running conguration.

You can change this default behavior by switching to the transaction-based conguration mode. To switch to the transaction-based

conguration mode, enter the start transaction command. When you switch to the transaction-based conguration mode, you are

updating the candidate conguration. Changes to the candidate conguration are not added to the running conguration until you commit

them, which activates the conguration. The start transaction command applies only to the current session. Changing the

conguration mode of the current session to the transaction-based mode does not aect the conguration mode of other CLI sessions.

• After you explicitly enter the commit command to save changes to the candidate conguration, the session switches back to the

default behavior of automatically saving the conguration changes to the running conguration.

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