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............................................................................................................................................................ 38
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 38
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................39
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................39
Command History............................................................................................................................................................40
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................40
Example of the grep Keyword...................................................................................................................................41
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode............................................................................................................................41
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................43
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................ 44
Serial Console............................................................................................................................................................. 44
Micro USB-B Access.................................................................................................................................................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......................................................................................................... 46
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
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 52
Upgrading Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................................... 53
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 53
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................54
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