General User Interface Guidelines
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Diag. This menu, fully available to the diag login account, contains commands to run diagnos-
tic tests. It is described in Chapter 36, “Running Hardware Diagnostics.”
Quit. Logs you out of the UI. You can also enter logout to exit.
? Displays the options for current menu.

General User Interface Guidelines

You can monitor and configure your switch in the following various ways:
• The User Interface (UI): The UI is the original method of switch configuration. It is a text-
based and menu-driven interface to which you can connect through the serial port,
through a modem, or over a network via Telnet. You can have up to four simultaneous UI
connections to an Omni Switch/Router. For Release 4.4 and later, the default for switch
monitoring and configuration is the CLI mode. If you are using a login account with
permission to use the UI command, you can enter the UI mode by entering the ui
command at the CLI system prompt.
• X-Vision: This purchasable network management software program consists of several
powerful sub-applications that help you manage and monitor your network. X-Vision
allows you to connect and configure multiple switches simultaneously. For more informa-
tion, refer to X-Vision’s on-line help.
• The Command Line Interface (CLI): The CLI is a new feature included with Release 4.1 that
allows you to configure Omni Switch/Routers using single-line text-based commands that
are entered through the local console. Improved readability, easy text editing of the config-
uration files, and simple cloning of switch configurations are among some of the advan-
tages of the CLI. For more information, refer to the Text-Based Configuration CLI Reference
Guide.

Entering Command Names

The UI is not case sensitive for commands, meaning that you may enter upper or lower case
as you desire. However, command line assignments, configuration input, and logins are case
sensitive.
Except for the logout and quit commands, you only need to enter as much of the command
that is unique. For example, if you want to execute the switch command you need only enter
swi. If you enter only sw, the system will respond with a choice of the following:
switch swch swchmac swap
If you set the switch to the verbose mode you will see additional information on the screen
(see Setting Verbose/Terse Mode for the User Interface on page 4-22).
Non-unique command match, possible commands:
switch Enter Any to Any Switching Menu
swch Configure Any To Any Switching Port Translations
swchmac View Per Mac Translation Options
swap Change swap status of chassis
swlogc Configure Switch Logging source/destination mapping and
priority levels