34CHAPTER 1: ADMINISTRATION OVERVIEW

Configuration Tasks To help you configure your system, the top-level menu of the Administration Console groups the commands into types for certain tasks, as listed in Table 4.

Not all menus and tasks are available on all systems.

Table 4 Types of Commands Associated with Configuration Tasks

Type of

 

 

Command

Top-Level Menus

Tasks

 

 

 

General

system

Set system or module parameters, handle

 

module

nonvolatile (NV) data, set security, reboot

 

script

Run scripts

 

logout, disconnect

Leave the Administration Console

 

 

 

Management

management

Set up the out-of-band management

setup

 

interface

 

snmp

Set up the system for SNMP and trap

 

 

reporting

 

 

 

Port-based

ethernet

Manage Ethernet ports

management

fddi

Manage Fiber Distributed Data Interface

 

 

 

(FDDI) ports

 

 

 

Bridging

bridge

Set bridge parameters for the entire system,

 

 

including for Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

 

 

and Class of Service (CoS)

 

 

Manage trunking of bridge ports

 

 

Set and display MultiPoint Link Aggregation

 

 

(MPLA) parameters

 

 

Manage resilient links

 

 

Set bridge parameters for specific bridge

 

 

ports

 

 

Manage virtual LANs (VLANs)

 

 

Manage packet filtering for port groups

 

 

 

Routing

ip

Set up IP, IP multicast, and IP Open Shortest

 

 

Path First (OSPF) routing

 

ipx

Set up IPX routing

 

appletalk

Set up AppleTalk routing

 

 

 

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