Users Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide............................................................................................................ 33
Audience.......................................................................................................................................................................... 33
Conventions..................................................................................................................................................................... 33
Related Documents.......................................................................................................................................................... 33
2 Conguration Fundamentals..........................................................................................34
Accessing the Command Line.......................................................................................................................................... 34
CLI Modes........................................................................................................................................................................34
Navigating CLI Modes................................................................................................................................................ 36
The do Command.............................................................................................................................................................38
Undoing Commands.........................................................................................................................................................39
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................40
Entering and Editing Commands...................................................................................................................................... 40
Command History............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Filtering show Command Outputs.....................................................................................................................................41
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...............................................................................................................................42
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................. 44
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................ 44
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................44
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH........................................................................................... 45
Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection....................................................................................................45
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection.............................................................................................. 45
Default Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 46
Conguring a Host Name.................................................................................................................................................46
Accessing the System Remotely...................................................................................................................................... 46
Accessing the System Remotely................................................................................................................................ 46
Congure the Management Port IP Address.............................................................................................................. 47
Congure a Management Route.................................................................................................................................47
Conguring a Username and Password...................................................................................................................... 47
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................... 47
Conguration File Management........................................................................................................................................48
Copy Files to and from the System.............................................................................................................................48
Mounting an NFS File System.................................................................................................................................... 49
Save the Running-Conguration................................................................................................................................ 50
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario......................................................................................................51
Viewing Files............................................................................................................................................................... 51
Managing the File System................................................................................................................................................ 52
Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a Command Option.................................................................................. 52
View Command History....................................................................................................................................................53
Upgrading Dell Networking OS.........................................................................................................................................53
Using HTTP for File Transfers.......................................................................................................................................... 54
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