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October 2006
Booting OmniSwitch 6800 Series
Switches
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Booting a Standalone Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Booting Stacked Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Dynamic Slot Numbering and Management Role As-
signment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Manual Slot Numbering and
Management Role Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Your First Login Session
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Logging In to the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Assigning an IP Address to the Switch or Stack . . 24
Assigning IP Addresses to Switches in a
Stacked Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Unlocking Session Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Unlocking All Session Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Unlocking Specified Session Types . . . . . . . . . 26
How many sessions are allowed? . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Changing the Login Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting the System Time Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Setting the Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Setting Optional System
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Specifying an Administrative Contact . . . . . . . 28
Specifying a System Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Specifying the Switch’s Location . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Viewing and Saving Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Assigning Slot Numbers for a
Stack
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
CLI Basics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
CLI Assistance Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Syntax Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Command Line (?) Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Partial Keyword Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Deleting Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Inserting Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Previous Command Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Prefix Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Prefix Prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Command History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Command Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Enabling Command Logging . . . . . . . . . . .36
Common CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Offline Configuring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Syntax Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Scheduling a Configuration File to be Applied
at a Later Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Generating Snapshots of the
Current Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Files and Directories
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Boot and Image Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
boot.params File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
boot.cfg File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
boot.slot.cfg File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Image Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Working and Certified Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41