User`s guide

Pipeline System Administration
Overview of administration functions
8-2 Preliminary January 30, 1998 Pipeline User’s Guide
System admin
commands
These include commands for rebooting, saving or restoring
configuration information, upgrading system software, and
viewing statistics and other conditions and settings. (See
“Performing system administration operations” on page 8-10.
Also see Appendix E, “Upgrading system software. ”)
DO commands Pressing Ctrl-D in the VT100 interface displays the DO
menu, which contains commands for changing security levels
in the Pipeline, or manually dialing or clearing a call. When
full access (or another appropriate security level) has been
activated, you can perform all DO commands as well as other
administrative operations. (Also see “DO Command
Reference” in the Reference Guide.)
Terminal server The command-line interface provides commands for testing a
connection, checking routing tables and other configuration
parameters, or configuring far-end Ascend units across the
WAN. Many of these commands are related to system
administration. (See “Using the terminal server interface” on
page 8-17. Also see “Terminal Server Commands” in the
Reference Guide.)
Status windows The status windows in the VT100 interface provide
information about what is currently happening in the
Pipeline. For example, status windows display the last 31
system events, statistics about the currently active session, the
software version loaded on the unit, the hardware
configuration, and other information. (See “Status Window
Reference” in the Reference Guide.)
Syslog If a Windows or UNIX host on the local network is running
the Syslog daemon, you can configure the Pipeline to write
log messages to an ASCII file on that host. (See “Configuring
the Pipeline to interact with syslog” on page 8-5.)