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18 AT-8800 Series Switch User Guide

■Do not use your birth date, street number or telephone number.

■Do not write down your password anywhere.

Make sure you remember the new password created as you cannot retrieve a lost password. Recovery of access to the switch is complex.

Once you have logged into the manager account you are able to enter commands from this guide and from the AT-8800 Series Switch Software Reference.

Using the Commands

You control the switch with commands described in this document and in the AT-8800 Series Switch Software Reference. While the keywords in commands are not case sensitive, the values entered for some parameters are (especially passwords). The switch supports command line editing and recall. Command line editing functions and keystrokes are shown in Table 2 on page 18.

Table 2: Command line editing functions and keystrokes .

Function	VT100 Terminal	Dumb terminal
Move cursor within command line	←, →	Not available
Delete character to left of cursor	[Delete] or [Backspace]	[Delete] or [Backspace]
Toggle between insert/overstrike	[Ctrl/O]	Not available
Clear command line	[Ctrl/U]	[Ctrl/U]
Recall previous command	↑ or [Ctrl/B]	[Ctrl/B]
Recall next command	↓ or [Ctrl/F]	[Ctrl/F]
Display command history	[Ctrl/C] or	[Ctrl/C]
	SHOW PORT HISTORY	or SHOW PORT HISTORY
Clear command history	RESET PORT HISTORY	RESET PORT HISTORY
Recall matching command	[Tab] or [Ctrl/I]	[Tab] or [Ctrl/I]

The switch assumes that the width of the terminal screen is 80 characters, and performs command line wrapping at the 80th column regardless of the setting of the terminal. To execute a command the cursor does not need to be at the end of the line. The default editing mode is insert mode. Characters are inserted at the cursor position and any characters to the right of the cursor are pushed to the right to make room. In overstrike mode, characters are inserted at the cursor position and replace any existing characters.

Commands are limited to 1000 characters, excluding the prompt. Pathnames of up to 256 characters, including file names, and file names up to 16 characters long, with extensions of 3 characters, are supported.

Software Release 2.6.1 C613-02039-00 REV A