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9 Configuring Switch-Wide

Parameters

The switch provides commands to display and configure parameters on a switch-wide basis.
These commands are grouped into two menus: the Summary menu and the System menu.
Descriptions for commands in the Summary menu begin below; descriptions for commands in
the System menu begin on page 9-5.
In addition, this chapter contains documentation for configuring HRE-X ports (described in
Configuring the HRE-X Router Port on page 9-27) duplicate MAC address support (described
in Duplicate MAC Address Support on page 9-30), multicast claiming (described in Multicast
Claiming on page 9-32), disabling flood limits (described in Disabling Flood Limits on page 9-
32), and saving configurations (described in Saving Configurations on page 9-33).

Summary Menu

The Summary menu consists of commands for displaying summary switch information. To
access this menu, enter
summary
at the UI prompt. Type the question mark (?) to see the following list of commands.
Command Summary Menu
ss Display MIB-II System group variables
sc Display a summary of the chassis (type, id, serial no., base mac, etc.)
si Current interface status
Main File Summary VLAN Networking
Interface Security System Services Help
The Summary menu commands are described in the sections that follow.