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Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a Command Option

This capability to activate software applications or components on a device using a command is supported on this platform.

Starting with Release 9.4(0.0), you can enable or disable specic software features or applications that need to run on a device by

using a command attribute in the CLI interface. This capability enables eective, streamlined management and administration of

applications and utilities that run on a device. You can employ this capability to perform an on-demand activation or turn-o of a

software component or protocol. A feature conguration le that is generated for each image contains feature names denotes

whether this enabling or disabling method is available for such features. In 9.4(0.0), you can enable or disable the VRF application

globally across the system by using this capability.

You can activate VRF application on a device by using the feature vrf command in CONFIGURATION mode.

NOTE: The no feature vrf command is not supported on any of the platforms.

To enable the VRF feature and cause all VRF-related commands to be available or viewable in the CLI interface, use the following

command. You must enable the VRF feature before you can congure its related attributes.

Dell(conf)# feature vrf

Based on whether VRF feature is identied as supported in the Feature Conguration le, conguration command feature vrf

becomes available for usage. This command will be stored in running-conguration and will precede all other VRF-related

congurations.

NOTE: The MXL and Z9000 platforms currently do not support VRF. These platforms support only the management and

default VRFs, which are available by default. As a result, the feature vrf command is not available for these platforms.

To display the state of Dell Networking OS features:

Dell#show feature

Example of show feature output

For a particular target where VRF is enabled, the show output is similar to the following:

Feature State

------------------------------

VRF enabled

View Command History

The command-history trace feature captures all commands entered by all users of the system with a time stamp and writes these

messages to a dedicated trace log buer.

The system generates a trace message for each executed command. No password information is saved to the le.

To view the command-history trace, use the show command-history command.

Example of the show command-history Command

Dell#show command-history

[5/18 21:58:32]: CMD-(TEL0):[enable]by admin from vty0 (10.11.68.5)

[5/18 21:58:48]: CMD-(TEL0):[configure]by admin from vty0 (10.11.68.5)

- Repeated 1 time.

[5/18 21:58:57]: CMD-(TEL0):[interface port-channel 1]by admin from vty0 (10.11.68.5)

[5/18 21:59:9]: CMD-(TEL0):[show config]by admin from vty0 (10.11.68.5)

[5/18 22:4:32]: CMD-(TEL0):[exit]by admin from vty0 (10.11.68.5)

[5/18 22:4:41]: CMD-(TEL0):[show interfaces port-channel brief]by admin from vty0

(10.11.68.5)

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