Users Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................34
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................34
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................34
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 34
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 35
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................35
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................35
Navigating CLI Modes............................................................................................................................................... 37
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 39
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 40
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................40
Entering and Editing Commands.................................................................................................................................... 41
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 42
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................42
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 42
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................43
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................44
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................45
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................45
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 46
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 46
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................46
Accessing the System Remotely..............................................................................................................................47
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..................................................................................................................................48
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................48
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 48
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................49
Save the Running-Conguration.............................................................................................................................. 51
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario................................................................................................ 51
Viewing Files................................................................................................................................................................51
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 52
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 53
Upgrading Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................................... 53
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 53
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................54
4 Management............................................................................................................................................... 56
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