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3.8. Understanding Terminal Parameters
Each system login, be it via the serial console or via telnet or ssh, creates a session. The
session is initialized with settings that are configurable from the
‘line’ configuration sub-mode,
but most of them can also be changed from exec mode while the session is active. Such
changes are not persistent, however, and are lost when the session is terminated.
The table below lists available settings and modes where each can be configured.
Table 7. Terminal Parameters
Setting Modes Description
Editing Exec, Line Enable/disable command line scrolling
exec-banner Line Enable/disable display of the Exec banner (configured with
‘banner exec ...’)
exec-timeout Exec, Line Inactivity timer; automatically log out after a period of
inactivity. A value of zero disables automatic logout
History Exec, Line Length of command history buffer
Length Exec, Line Terminal length in lines, used for pagination. Zero disables
pagination
Location Line A line of text that describes the terminal location, e.g. “Server
room”
motd-banner Line Enable/disable display of Message-Of-The-Day banner
(configured with ‘banner motd ...’)
Privilege Line Assign default privilege level
Width Exec, Line Terminal width in characters, used for pagination
The system allows one serial console session and up to 16 network sessions. The console
session is called “console 0” whereas each network session is called “vty
X
” where vty is an
abbreviation for Virtual TTY and X is a value between 0 and 15.
The configuration appears near the bottom of running-config and looks like this:
line console 0
exec-timeout 0
!
line vty 0
!
line vty 1
!
line vty 2
! [...]
It is possible to specify different settings for each vty, but this is generally not recommended
since there is no way to associate an incoming ssh or telnet connection with a specific vty.