Specifications

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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Command Reference

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Using the WAAS Command-Line Interface

This chapter describes how to use the WAAS CLI, including an explanation of CLI command modes,

navigation and editing features, and help features.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• About the WAAS, page 1-1

• Using Command Modes, page 1-2

• Using Command-Line Processing, page 1-12

• Checking Command Syntax, page 1-13

• Using the no Form of Commands, page 1-14

• Using System Help, page 1-14

• Saving Configuration Changes, page 1-15

• WAAS Directories on a WAE, page 1-15

• Managing WAAS Files Per Device, page 1-18

About the WAAS

The Cisco WAAS software command-line interface (CLI) is used in combination with the WAAS

Manager GUI to configure, monitor, and maintain a WAAS device. The CLI on a WAAS device can be

accessed directly through the console port of an attached PC or remotely through a Telnet session on a

PC running terminal emulation software.

Note The WAAS software runs on the WAE-512, WAE-612, WAE-674, WAE-7326, WAE-7341, WAE-7371,

and on WAE-NME network modules that are connected to specific Cisco routers. You must deploy the

WAAS Central Manager on a dedicated appliance.

Throughout this book, the term WAAS device refers collectively to a WAAS Central Manager and a

WAE. The term WAE refers collectively to the supported WAE platforms that are running on the WAAS

software unless otherwise noted.