How To Use the Network Control Language (NCL) Commands To Manage a Router

How To Start NCL

NCL Prompt

Figure 7-2. Example of the NCL Screen

The NCL command prompt, near the bottom of the screen, always appears (followed by a colon) as the current system name of your router, followed by a colon. In the above figure, the NCL prompt appears as DEFAULT_CONFIG:, which is the factory default. (You can use Quick Configuration or the Configuration Editor to change the system name.)

How To Exit From NCL

At the NCL prompt, type

exit

and press [Return] to return to the Main menu.

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