Brocade Communications Systems 6650 manual Online help, Command completion, Scroll control

1 Logging on through the CLI

•CONFIG – Lets you make configuration changes to the device. To save the changes across reboots, you need to save them to the system-config file. The CONFIG level contains sub-levels for individual ports, for VLANs, for routing protocols, and other configuration areas.

NOTE

By default, any user who can open a serial or Telnet connection to the Brocade device can access all these CLI levels. To secure access, you can configure Enable passwords or local user accounts, or you can configure the device to use a RADIUS or TACACS/TACACS+ server for authentication. refer to the Brocade ICX 6650 Switch Security Configuration Guide.

Online help

To display a list of available commands or command options, enter “?” or press Tab. If you have not entered part of a command at the command prompt, all the commands supported at the current CLI level are listed. If you enter part of a command, then enter “?” or press Tab, the CLI lists the options you can enter at this point in the command string.

If you enter an invalid command followed by ?, a message appears indicating the command was unrecognized. An example is given below.

Brocade(config)#rooter ip

Unrecognized command

Command completion

The CLI supports command completion, so you do not need to enter the entire name of a command or option. As long as you enter enough characters of the command or option name to avoid ambiguity with other commands or options, the CLI understands what you are typing.

Scroll control

By default, the CLI uses a page mode to paginate displays that are longer than the number of rows in your terminal emulation window. For example, if you display a list of all the commands at the global CONFIG level but your terminal emulation window does not have enough rows to display them all at once, the page mode stops the display and lists your choices for continuing the display. An example is given below.

aaa all-client appletalk arp

boot

some lines omitted for brevity...

ipx lock-address logging

mac

--More--, next page: Space, next line:

Return key, quit: Control-c

The software provides the following scrolling options:

•Press the Space bar to display the next page (one screen at a time).

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