User Guide

Installing Your Switch 13
♦ Important Notes ♦
The system name must be a single
word or hypenated text string. Do not
use commas, quotation marks or
underscores.
No confirmation message will appear
onscreen. To verify that the system
name has been set, type
system name
at the CLI prompt and press <Enter>.
e. To view the system location, type
system
location
at the CLI prompt and press <Enter>. If
no location has been specified, the following
will be displayed:
-> system location
Unset
f. To specify the system location, type system
location
followed by a text-string name you want
to use at the CLI prompt and press <Enter>. For
example, to specify Calabasas Test Lab as the
system location, type the following at the CLI
prompt and press <Enter>:
-> system location “Calabasas Test Lab”
♦ Important Notes ♦
Any text-string name that includes
spaces must be enclosed in quotes
(e.g.,
“Test Lab”).
No confirmation will appear onscreen.
To verify that the system location has
been set, type
system location at the
CLI prompt and press <Enter>.
g. To view the system description, type
system
description
at the CLI prompt and press <Enter>.
If no description has been specified, an error
message will appear, as shown below:
-> system description
DESCRIPTION NOT SET.
h. To specify the system description, type system
description
followed by a text-string you want to
use at the CLI prompt and press <Enter>. For
example, to specify Engineering #2 as the system
description, type the following at the CLI prompt
and press <Enter>:
-> system description “Engineering #2”
♦ Important Notes ♦
To add spaces between words, you
must include quotation marks (
“ ”)
around the text string for system
description
.
No confirmation message will appear
onscreen. To verify that the system
description has been set, type
system
description
at the CLI prompt and press
<Enter>.