SMC Networks SMC6709L2 manual Accessing the CLI, Entering Commands, Keywords and Arguments

CHAPTER 5 COMMAND LINE INTERFACE

This chapter provides a basic description of the command line interface. For a more detailed description about specific features, please refer to the appropriate section in Chapter 3, Configuring the Switch.

Accessing the CLI

The switch can be managed by entering a sequence of command keywords and parameters. Using the switch’s command-line interface (CLI) is very similar to entering commands on a UNIX system. To use the CLI, choose Command Line in the console’s main menu, and then enter any of the commands described in this chapter.

Entering Commands

This section describes how to enter CLI commands.

Keywords and Arguments

A CLI command is a series of keywords and arguments. Keywords identify a command, and arguments specify configuration parameters. For example, in the command “show portstatus 1,” show and portstatus are keywords, and 1 is an argument that specifies the port.

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