Nortel Networks 40M2420 manual How This Book Is Organized

Alteon OS Command Reference

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1 “The Command Line Interface,” describes how to connect to the switch and access the information and configuration menus.

Chapter 2 “First-Time Configuration,” describes how to use the Setup utility for initial switch configuration and how to change the system passwords.

Chapter 3 “Menu Basics,” provides an overview of the menu system, including a menu map, global commands, and menu shortcuts.

Chapter 4 “The Information Menu,” shows how to view switch configuration parameters.

Chapter 5 “The Statistics Menu,” shows how to view switch performance statistics.

Chapter 6 “The Configuration Menu,” shows how to configure switch system parameters, ports, VLANs, Spanning Tree Protocol, SNMP, Port Mirroring, IP Routing, Port Trunking, and more.

Chapter 7 “The Operations Menu,” shows how to use commands which affect switch per- formance immediately, but do not alter permanent switch configurations (such as temporarily disabling ports). The menu describes how to activate or deactivate optional software features.

Chapter 8 “The Boot Options Menu,” describes the use of the primary and alternate switch images, how to load a new software image, and how to reset the software to factory defaults.

Chapter 9 “The Maintenance Menu,” shows how to generate and access a dump of critical switch state information, how to clear it, and how to clear part or all of the forwarding database.

Appendix A, “Alteon OS Syslog Messages,” shows a listing of syslog messages.

Appendix B, “Alteon OS SNMP Agent,” lists the Management Interface Bases (MIBs) sup- ported in the switch software.

“Glossary” includes definitions of terminology used throughout the book.

“Index” includes pointers to the description of the key words used throughout the book.

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