Users Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................30
Audience........................................................................................................................................................................... 30
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................30
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 30
2 Conguration Fundamentals.........................................................................................................................31
Accessing the Command Line.........................................................................................................................................31
CLI Modes......................................................................................................................................................................... 31
Navigating CLI Modes............................................................................................................................................... 33
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 35
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 36
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................36
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................37
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 37
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................38
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 38
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................39
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................40
Console Access.................................................................................................................................................................41
Serial Console..............................................................................................................................................................41
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................42
Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection..............................................................................................42
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection........................................................................................42
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 43
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 43
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................43
Accessing the System Remotely..............................................................................................................................43
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 43
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................44
Conguring a Username and Password.................................................................................................................. 44
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................44
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................45
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 45
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................46
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................47
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 48
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................48
Compressing Conguration Files............................................................................................................................. 49
Managing the File System............................................................................................................................................... 51
Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a Command Option..........................................................................52
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 52
Upgrading Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................................... 53
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