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 Preface BMD00127, September 2009
How This Book Is Organized
Chapter 1 “The Command Line Interface,” describes how to connect to the switch and access
the information and configuration menus.
Chapter 2 “First-Time Configuration
,” describes initial switch configuration and how to
change the system passwords.
Chapter 3 “Menu Basics
,” provides an overview of the menu system, including a menu map,
global commands, and menu shortcuts.
Chapter 4 “The Information Menu,” shows how to view switch configuration parameters.
Chapter 5 “The Statistics Menu,” shows how to view switch performance statistics.
Chapter 6 “The Configuration Menu,” shows how to configure switch system parameters,
ports, VLANs, Spanning Tree Protocol, SNMP, Port Mirroring, IP Routing, Port Trunking, and
more.
Chapter 7 “The Operations Menu,” shows how to use commands which affect switch per-
formance immediately, but do not alter permanent switch configurations (such as temporarily
disabling ports). The menu describes how to activate or deactivate optional software features.
Chapter 8 “The Boot Options Menu,” describes the use of the primary and alternate switch
images, how to load a new software image, and how to reset the software to factory defaults.
Chapter 9 “The Maintenance Menu,” shows how to generate and access a dump of critical
switch state information, how to clear it, and how to clear part or all of the forwarding database.
“Index” includes pointers to the description of the key words used throughout the book.