Users Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................32
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................32
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................32
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 32
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 33
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................33
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................33
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................35
The do Command.............................................................................................................................................................37
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 38
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................38
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................39
Command History............................................................................................................................................................40
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................40
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 40
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode............................................................................................................................41
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................42
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................ 43
Serial Console............................................................................................................................................................. 43
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 44
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 44
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................44
Accessing the System Remotely..............................................................................................................................44
Congure the Management Port IP Address.........................................................................................................45
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................45
Conguring a Username and Password..................................................................................................................45
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................46
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................46
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 46
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................47
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................49
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 49
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................49
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 50
View Command History................................................................................................................................................... 51
Upgrading Dell Networking OS....................................................................................................................................... 51
Using HTTP for File Transfers.........................................................................................................................................51
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................52
4 Management............................................................................................................................................... 54
Conguring Privilege Levels............................................................................................................................................54
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