Command Reference Guide

Contents
Command line interface
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Additional references ................................................................................................................................................. 8
Connecting to the switch .......................................................................................................................................... 8
Establishing a console connection ..................................................................................................................... 8
Setting an IP address ............................................................................................................................................. 9
Establishing a Telnet connection ........................................................................................................................ 9
Establishing an SSH connection .......................................................................................................................... 9
Accessing the switch ................................................................................................................................................ 10
Idle timeout ................................................................................................................................................................. 11
Typographical conventions ..................................................................................................................................... 11
Menu basics
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................ 13
Main Menu .................................................................................................................................................................. 13
Menu summary .......................................................................................................................................................... 13
Global commands .................................................................................................................................................... 14
Command line history and editing ........................................................................................................................ 15
Command line interface shortcuts ........................................................................................................................ 16
Command stacking ............................................................................................................................................ 16
Command abbreviation .................................................................................................................................... 16
Tab completion .................................................................................................................................................... 16
First-time configuration
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................ 17
Configuring Simple Network Management Protocol support ..................................................................... 17
Setting passwords ...................................................................................................................................................... 18
Changing the default administrator password .............................................................................................. 18
Changing the default user password .............................................................................................................. 19
Changing the default operator password...................................................................................................... 20
Information Menu
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................ 21
Menu overview .......................................................................................................................................................... 21
System Information Menu ........................................................................................................................................ 22
SNMPv3 Information Menu ...................................................................................................................................... 22
SNMPv3 USM User Table information ................................................................................................................ 23
SNMPv3 View Table information ....................................................................................................................... 24
SNMPv3 Access Table information ................................................................................................................... 24
SNMPv3 Group Table information ..................................................................................................................... 25
SNMPv3 Community Table information ........................................................................................................... 25
SNMPv3 Target Address Table information ..................................................................................................... 25
SNMPv3 Target Parameters Table information ............................................................................................... 26
SNMPv3 Notify Table information ...................................................................................................................... 26
SNMPv3 dump ...................................................................................................................................................... 27
System information .................................................................................................................................................... 28
Show last 100 syslog messages................................................................................................................................ 28
System user information ............................................................................................................................................ 29
Layer 2 information .................................................................................................................................................... 30
FDB information menu .............................................................................................................................................. 31
Show all FDB information .................................................................................................................................... 31
Clearing entries from the FDB ............................................................................................................................ 31
Link Aggregation Control Protocol information ................................................................................................... 32
LACP dump ........................................................................................................................................................... 32
802.1x information ..................................................................................................................................................... 33
Spanning Tree information ....................................................................................................................................... 34
Rapid Spanning Tree and Multiple Spanning Tree information ........................................................................ 36
Common Internal Spanning Tree information ...................................................................................................... 38