Chapter 1 Introducing the CLI Configuration Guide

CLI Behavior

Note For IPS 5.0 and later, you can no longer remove the cisco account. You can disable it using the no password cisco command, but you cannot remove it. To use the no password cisco command, there must be another administrator account on the sensor. Removing the cisco account through the service account is not supported. If you remove the cisco account through the service account, the sensor most likely will not boot up, so to recover the sensor you must reinstall the sensor system image.

CLI Behavior

The following tips help you use the Cisco IPS CLI.

Prompts

You cannot change the prompt displayed for the CLI commands.

User interactive prompts occur when the system displays a question and waits for user input. The default input is displayed inside brackets [ ]. To accept the default input, press Enter.

Help

To display the help for a command, type ? after the command.

The following example demonstrates the ? function:

sensor# configure ?

terminal

Configure from the terminal

sensor# configure

Note When the prompt returns from displaying help, the command previously entered is displayed without the ?.

You can type ? after an incomplete token to view the valid tokens that complete the command. If there is a trailing space between the token and the ?, you receive an ambiguous command error:

sensor# show c ?

% Ambiguous command: “show c”

If you enter the token without the space, a selection of available tokens for the completion (with no help description) appears:

sensor# show c? clock configuration

sensor# show c

Only commands available in the current mode are displayed by help.

Tab Completion

Only commands available in the current mode are displayed by tab complete and help.

If you are unsure of the complete syntax for a command, you can type a portion of the command and press Tab to complete the command.

If multiple commands match for tab completion, nothing is displayed.

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IPS4510K9 specifications

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