HP TippingPoint Next Generation Firewall manual Hierarchical Menu and Prompt display

Shortcut Navigation Keys

The CLI has the ability to store typed commands in a circular memory. Typed commands can be recalled with the UP and DOWN arrow keys.

The TAB key may be used to complete partial commands. If the partial command is ambiguous, pressing the TAB key twice gives a list of possible commands.

Following is a list of shortcuts. Table 1-2Shortcut Keys

Shortcut	Description
ENTER	Run the command
TAB	Complete partial command
?	Question mark at the root prompt or after a command (separated by
	space) will list next valid sub-commands or command arguments.
	Question mark can also be used after sub-commands for more
	information. A question mark immediately following a character(s)
	(no space) will list commands beginning with those characters.
!	Exclamation mark before a command allows you to execute the
	command from any feature context or sub-level. For example,
	NGFW{running-gen}!ping 203.0.113.0
UP ARROW	Show the previous command
DOWN ARROW	Show the next command
Ctrl + P	Show the previous command
Ctrl + N	Show the next command
Ctrl + L	Clear the screen, does not clear history
Ctrl + A	Return to the start of the command you are typing
Ctrl + E	Go to the end of the command you are typing
Ctrl + U	Cut the whole line to a special clipboard
Ctrl + K	Cut everything after the cursor to a special clipboard
Ctrl + Y	Paste from the special clipboard used by Ctrl + U and Ctrl + K

Hierarchical Menu and Prompt display

Prompts will be displayed based on the context level as shown in the following table.

Table 1-3Root, Edit and Log configuration modes

Command Line prompt	Description
NGFW{}	Top level root command mode
NGFW{}edit	From the root command line mode, enter the edit com-
	mand to access configuration mode.
NGFW{running}	Configuration mode - indicated with the prompt change
NGFW{running}firewall	Enters the firewall configuration context
NGFW{running}display	View current configuration and your changes
NGFW{running}commit	Commits changes to the running configuration
NGFW{running}exit	Leaves the current context mode

6 Command Line Interface