￿The maint menu contains all of the commands for maintenance of the switch. The commands to manipulate the ARP cache and forwarding database are here, as well as the commands to obtain dumps of the current state of the switch for technical support.

Figure 5-4 CLI Main Menu

Global commands

The remainder of the options on the Main Menu — diff, apply, save, revert, and exit — are all global commands that work anywhere on the switch. Figure 5-4shows what each of the commands does. The help command is also global and lists all the global commands, as shown in Figure 5-5.

Figure 5-5 CLI global command list

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