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............................................................................................................................................................ 40
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 40
Obtaining Help...................................................................................................................................................................41
Entering and Editing Commands.................................................................................................................................... 41
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 42
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................42
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 43
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................43
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................45
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................46
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................46
Micro USB-B Access................................................................................................................................................. 47
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 48
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 48
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................48
Accessing the System Remotely..............................................................................................................................48
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 48
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................49
Conguring a Username and Password..................................................................................................................49
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................49
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................50
Copy Files to and from the System.........................................................................................................................50
Mounting an NFS File System...................................................................................................................................51
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................52
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 53
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................53
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 54
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 54
Upgrading Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................................... 55
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................55
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................56
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