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BLADE OS Command Reference
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 Menu Basics BMD00127, September 2009
Menu Summary
 Information Menu
Provides sub-menus for displaying information about the current status of the switch:
from basic system settings to VLANs, and more.
 Statistics Menu
Provides sub-menus for displaying switch performance statistics.
 Configuration Menu
This menu is available only from an administrator login. It includes sub-menus for config-
uring every aspect of the switch. Changes to configuration are not active until explicitly
applied. Changes can be saved to non-volatile memory.
 Operations Command Menu
Operations-level commands are used for making immediate and temporary changes to
switch configuration. This menu is used for bringing ports temporarily in and out of ser-
vice, performing port mirroring, and so on.
 Boot Options Menu
This menu is used for upgrading switch software, selecting configuration blocks, and for
resetting the switch when necessary.
 Maintenance Menu
This menu is used for debugging purposes, enabling you to generate a dump of the critical
state information in the switch, and to clear entries in the forwarding database and the
ARP tables.