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Quidway S5000 Series Ethernet Switches Chapter 3 Command Line Interface
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Chapter 3 Command Line Interface
3.1 Command Line Interface
Quidway series Ethernet Switches provide a series of configuration commands and
command line interfaces for configuring and managing the Ethernet switch. The
command line interface has the following characteristics:
z Local configuration via the Console port.
z Local or remote configuration via Telnet or SSH.
z Remote configuration through a dial-up Modem to log in the Ethernet switch.
z Hierarchy command protection to avoid the unauthorized users accessing
Ethernet switch.
z Enter a “?” to get immediate online help.
z Provide network testing commands, such as Tracert and Ping, to fast troubleshoot
the network.
z Provide various detailed debugging information to help with network
troubleshooting.
z Log in and manage other Ethernet switch directly, using the Telnet command.
z Provide FTP service for the users to upload and download files.
z Provide the function similar to Doskey to execute a history command.
z The command line interpreter searches for target not fully matching the keywords.
It is ok for you to key in the whole keyword or part of it, as long as it is unique and
not ambiguous.
3.2 Command Line View
Quidway series Ethernet Switches provide hierarchy protection for the command lines
to avoid unauthorized user accessing illegally.
Commands are classified into four levels, namely visit level, monitoring level,
configuration level and management level. They are introduced as follows:
z Visit level: Commands of this level involve command of network diagnosis tool
(such as ping and tracert), command of switch between different language
environments of user interface (language-mode) and telnet command etc. The
operation of saving configuration file is not allowed on this level of commands.
z Monitoring level: Commands of this level, including the display command and the
debugging command, are used to system maintenance, service fault diagnosis,
etc. The operation of saving configuration file is not allowed on this level of
commands.
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