Extreme Networks Px Series manual Configuring Management Access, Command History, Prompt Text

value. You must use quotes if the text value includes any non-alphanumeric characters, such as spaces, dashes, or dots.

Command History

The Px series application switch keeps a history of the last 49 commands you entered. To display a list of the most recent commands, enter:

history

Prompt Text

The prompt text is taken from the SNMP sysname setting. For more information, see ”Configuring SNMP” on page 4-9.

The number that follows the colon indicates the sequential line/command number. If an asterisk (*) appears in front of the command-line prompt, it indicates that you have outstanding configuration changes that have not been saved. For example:

* SummitPx1:19#

The prompt ends with > if you are logged in with user-level privileges, and with # if you are logged in with administrative privileges. For more information, see “Configuring Management Access” on page 4-4.

Configuring Management Access

The software supports two levels of management:

•User

A user-level account has viewing access to all manageable parameters except the user account database and the SNMP community strings.

A user-level account can use the ping command to test device reachability, and change the password assigned to the account name. If you have logged on with user capabilities, the command-line prompt ends with a (>) sign. For example:

SummitPx1:2>

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