Concept Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................37
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................37
Conventions...................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Related Documents..........................................................................................................................................................37
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 38
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................38
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................38
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................40
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 43
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................44
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................44
Command History............................................................................................................................................................45
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................45
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 45
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................46
Conguring alias command.............................................................................................................................................46
Viewing alias conguration........................................................................................................................................47
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................49
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................50
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................50
Default Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 51
Conguring a Host Name................................................................................................................................................ 51
Accessing the System Remotely.................................................................................................................................... 51
Accessing the System Remotely.............................................................................................................................. 51
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 52
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................52
Conguring a Username and Password..................................................................................................................52
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................53
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................54
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 54
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................55
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................56
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario................................................................................................57
Viewing Files............................................................................................................................................................... 57
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 58
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 58
Upgrading Dell EMC Networking OS............................................................................................................................ 59
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 59
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................59
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