About the Interface Menus 97
How Many Users Can
Access the Interface?
The command line interface can be accessed by several users at the same
time:
■
If the stack contains multiple Switch units, the command line interface
can be accessed through each console port in the stack at the same
time.
■
If the stack is being managed using Telnet, the command line interface
can be accessed by any number of users at the same time.
About the Interface
Menus
Once you access the command line interface, the Top-level menu is
displayed as shown in Figure 27
.
Figure 27
Top-level menu
The command line interface is made up of two areas:
■
The Menu Area
— Contains the current menu of commands. The
menu can contain commands to configure the stack or commands to
display other menus in the command line interface. Each command is
accompanied by a brief description of its purpose.
■
The Command Area
— Contains a
Select menu option
prompt
where you can enter the commands displayed in the menu area.
From the Top-level menu, you can access six sub-menus:
■
Bridge menu
This menu contains commands that allow you to administer the
bridging functions of the Switch, such as STP, multicast filtering, and
VLANs.
■
Ethernet menu
This menu contains commands that allow you to enable or disable the
ports in the stack, and view status information about them.
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