Users Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................32
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................32
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................32
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 32
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 33
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................33
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................33
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................35
The do Command.............................................................................................................................................................37
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 38
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................38
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................39
Command History............................................................................................................................................................40
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................40
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 40
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode............................................................................................................................41
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................42
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.........................................................................................................45
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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