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Cisco MGX 8850 Routing Switch Command Reference
Release 2.0, Part Number 78-10467-04 Rev C0, October 2001
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Equipment and Resource Provisioning
This chapter describes the commands that let you activate, configure, display, and delete resources at
various levels of the switch. These levels are:
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Node
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Card
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Line
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Port
The MGX 8850 node uses the concept of a bay. The bay refers to the back card position. The T3/E3,
OC-3, and OC-12 versions of the ATM Switching Service Module (AXSM) can have two back cards,
one in bay 1 (upper slot) and the second in bay 2 (lower slot). The MGX-AXSM-1-2488 (OC-48 AXSM)
can have a back card in bay 1 only. For further descriptions and illustrations of the card sets, refer to
Cisco MGX 8850 Hardware Installation Guide.
Position-Dependent and Keyword-Driven Parameters
A command can include parameters that are keyword-driven or position-dependent.
For position-dependent parameters, you must type parameters in the order they appear in the syntax
description or on-line help. To create a logical port, for example, the position-dependent syntax is:
addport <ifNum> <bay.line> <guaranteedRate> <maxrate> <sctID> <ifType> [vpi]
For a keyword-driven parameter, a keyword must precede the value. The keyword is preceded by a dash
and followed by the parameter (–timeout <secs>, for example). The order that you enter keyword-driven
parameters does not matter—although any preceding or succeeding, position-dependent parameters
must appear as they do in the command syntax description.
In the following syntax example, the command is to delete more than one connection at a time. The
mandatory, position-dependent connection identifier consist of a logical port (ifNum) and the VPI and
VCI of the first connection to delete. After the connection identifier, the line shows two optional,
keyword-driven parameters. These keyword-driven parameters let you enter the number of connections
to delete and specify verbose mode:
delcons <ifNum> <vpi> <vci> [-num <num. conns to del>] [-verbose < 1 | 0 >]