Cisco Systems Cisco MGX 8850 Command Line Prompt, Command Syntax

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Cisco MGX 8850 Routing Switch Command Reference
Release 2.0, Part Number 78-10467-04 Rev C0, October 2001
Chapter1 Command Line Interface Overview
Command Line Prompt
Command Line Prompt
The format of the CLI prompt is :
name.slot number.card type.card state >
where:
•name is the name of the node (“Unknown” until a you assign name with the cnfname command).
•slot number is the slot of the front card.
•card type identifies the Processor Switc hing Module 45 (PXM45) or a service m odule type, such as
the AXSM.
•card state is “i” for initialized, “a” for active, or “s” for standby. For many commands, a card must
be active before the command can execute, so eac h c omm and description has an Attributes secti on
that identifies the states in wh ic h t h e co m m and can execute.
– A card in the initialized st ate (i) is still loading applica tio n modules.
– A card in the active (a) state eith er is fu ll y co nfigu r ed an d re ad y to ca rr y o ut it s f un ct io n or i s
already performing its function with live traffic.
– Typically, a card goes into the standby (s) state when it first powers up and boots or when you
execute a command that puts it in the standby state . For exam ple, the commands for a graceful
upgrade of firmware on a pair of PXM45s puts the active card in the standby state and the
standby card in the active state (see loadrev description for details).
An example of a CLI prompt is:
MGX8850.7.PXM45.a >
The preceding promp t shows that the
•Name of the node is “excel.”
•Slot number is 7.
•Card type is PXM45.
•Card state is active.
Command Syntax
This section contains the following syntax topics:
•Notation
•Position-dependent parameters
•Keyword-driven parameters
•Logical port format
•Command entry