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Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................36
Audience........................................................................................................................................................................... 36
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................36
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 36
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 37
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................ 37
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................38
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................39
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 42
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 42
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................43
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................43
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 44
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................44
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 45
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................45
Conguring alias command.............................................................................................................................................46
Viewing alias conguration........................................................................................................................................46
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................48
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................49
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................49
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 50
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 50
Accessing the System Remotely................................................................................................................................... 50
Accessing the System Remotely............................................................................................................................. 50
Congure the Management Port IP Address..........................................................................................................51
Congure a Management Route...............................................................................................................................51
Conguring a Username and Password...................................................................................................................51
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................52
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................53
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 53
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................54
Save the Running-Conguration............................................................................................................................. 55
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 56
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................56
Managing the File System...............................................................................................................................................57
View Command History...................................................................................................................................................57
Upgrading Dell EMC Networking OS............................................................................................................................ 58
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 58
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................58
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