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..................................................................................................................................................................39
Entering and Editing Commands...................................................................................................................................... 40
Command History............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Filtering show Command Outputs.....................................................................................................................................41
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...............................................................................................................................42
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................. 43
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................ 43
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................43
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH........................................................................................... 44
Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection....................................................................................................44
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection.............................................................................................. 44
Default Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 45
Conguring a Host Name.................................................................................................................................................45
Accessing the System Remotely...................................................................................................................................... 45
Accessing the System Remotely................................................................................................................................ 45
Congure the Management Port IP Address.............................................................................................................. 46
Congure a Management Route.................................................................................................................................46
Conguring a Username and Password...................................................................................................................... 46
Conguring the Enable Password.....................................................................................................................................46
Conguration File Management........................................................................................................................................47
Copy Files to and from the System.............................................................................................................................47
Mounting an NFS File System.................................................................................................................................... 48
Save the Running-Conguration................................................................................................................................ 49
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario.....................................................................................................50
Viewing Files.............................................................................................................................................................. 50
Managing the File System.................................................................................................................................................51
Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a Command Option...................................................................................51
View Command History....................................................................................................................................................52
Upgrading Dell Networking OS.........................................................................................................................................52
Using HTTP for File Transfers.......................................................................................................................................... 52
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