3Com 09-1324-000 Learning About the User Interface

6-2 CHAPTER 6: CONFIGURING BASIC SETTINGS

The bridge/router system prompt is displayed:

NETBuilder #

You are now ready to begin entering software commands.

Learning About the

User Interface This section describes how to access the bridge/router user interface and provides

an overview of the menu-driven and command-line interfaces.

This section also includes the following information:

■How to specify values, set members, or set addresses when using either the

menu-driven or command-line interface

■How to use online help

Accessing the User

Interface To access the user interface or to modify the conﬁguration of the NETBuilder

bridge/router, use one of the following methods:

■Access the bridge/router commands locally through the console port.

■Establish a Telnet session with the bridge/router using security passwords.

■Use a device (for example, a workstation) on the same extended network or

internetwork to access the bridge/router through the Telnet protocol.

NETBuilder software also supports outgoing Telnet.

The software supports TCP and UDP over Bigger Addresses (TUBA), which

means you can Telnet to the bridge/router using an IP address or an OSI

NSAP address from a PC or workstation. For more information about using

Telnet on a workstation, refer to the manual that accompanies the

workstation.

■View and conﬁgure a subset of bridge/router parameters from a remote host

using SNMP. For information on preparing the bridge/router to run SNMP, refer

to Using NETBuilder Family Software.

After accessing the user interface, you need to decide whether to use the

menu-driven interface or the command-line interface.

Menu-Driven Versus

Command-Line Interface After accessing the bridge/router user interface, you can issue a command in one

of two ways:

■Use the menu-driven interface if you are unsure of the command syntax.

For more information about the MEnu command, refer to Reference for

NETBuilder Family Software. For information on how to use the menu-driven

interface, see the next section.

■Enter the command at the system prompt if you know the exact syntax.

For information about the command line and rules for entering commands,

refer to “Using the Command-Line Interface” on page 6-3.

The syntax for each command and parameter is described in Reference for

NETBuilder Family Software.

Using the Menu-Driven

Interface The MEnu command allows you to perform the following operations:

■List the services available on the bridge/router.

■Choose a service and see the list of parameters available for the service.

■List the parameters in the current service.