Administrator Guide

● In some cases, when you use an SSH session, when certain show commands such as show tech-support produce large

volumes of output, sometimes few characters from the output display are truncated and not displayed. This may cause one

of the commands to fail for syntax error. In such cases, if you add few newline characters before the failed command, the

output displays completely.

Execution of commands on CLI over SSH does not notice the errors that have occurred while executing the command. As a

result, you cannot identify, whether a command has failed to be processed. The console output though is redirected back over

SSH.

Default Configuration

Although a version of Dell EMC Networking OS is pre-loaded onto the system, the system is not configured when you power up

the system first time (except for the default hostname, which is DellEMC). You must configure the system using the CLI.

Configuring a Host Name

The host name appears in the prompt. The default host name is DellEMC.

● Host names must start with a letter and end with a letter or digit.

● Characters within the string can be letters, digits, and hyphens.

To create a host name, use the hostname name command in Configuration mode.

DellEMC(conf)#hostname R1

R1(conf)#

Accessing the System Remotely

You can configure the system to access it remotely by Telnet or secure shell (SSH).

● The platform has a dedicated management port and a management routing table that is separate from the IP routing table.

● You can manage all Dell EMC Networking products in-band via the front-end data ports through interfaces assigned an IP

address as well.

Accessing the System Remotely

Configuring the system for remote access is a three-step process, as described in the following topics:

1. Configure an IP address for the management port. Configure the Management Port IP Address

2. Configure a management route with a default gateway. Configure a Management Route

3. Configure a username and password. Configure a Username and Password

Configure the Management Port IP Address

To access the system remotely, assign IP addresses to the management ports.

1. Enter INTERFACE mode for the Management port.

CONFIGURATION mode

interface ManagementEthernet slot/port

2. Assign an IP address to the interface.

INTERFACE mode

ip address ip-address/mask

● ip-address: an address in dotted-decimal format (A.B.C.D).

● mask: a subnet mask in /prefix-length format (/ xx).

Getting Started