Specifications

10 Setting Up Software
f. To specify the system location, type system
location
followed by text-string name at the CLI
prompt and press <Enter>. For example, to spec-
ify Calabasas Test Lab as the system location,
type the following at the CLI prompt and press
<Enter>:
-> system location “Calabasas Test Lab”
♦ Important Notes ♦
To add spaces between words, you
must include quotation marks (
“ ”)
around the text string for system
location
.
No confirmation message 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 name 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 ♦
Any text-string name that includes
spaces must be enclosed in quotes
(e.g.,
“Test Lab”).
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>.
i. The
MAC aging timer indicates how many
seconds any duplicate MACs can remain in the
switch’s CAM (Content Addressable Memory) if
there is no traffic from those MACs. After the
specified time has expired, inactive MACs age
out of the CAM. To view the switch’s MAC aging
timer value (default=0), type system dup-mac-
timer
at the CLI prompt and press <Enter>. the
following will display:
-> system dup-mac-timer
0
j. To specify the switch’s MAC aging timer value in
seconds, type system dup-mac-timer followed by a
number of seconds (the valid range is 10
through 1000000 seconds) at the CLI prompt and
press <Enter>. For example, to specify 5000 as
the MAC aging timer value, type the following at
the CLI prompt and press <Enter>:
-> system dup-mac-timer 5000