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MULTINET4 MULTI-PORT SERIAL SERVER & MANAGED SWITCH – INSTRUCTION MANUAL
THE CLI AND PROTOCOL MONITOR
CHAPTER 5: THE CLI AND PROTOCOL MONITOR
5.2
CLI Functionality
In addition to providing protocol monitoring functionality the CLI enables you to carry out
from the command line many of the management tasks you can also perform with the
graphical interface.
The CLI supports three types of commands:
Global commands
– These are commands that can be entered at any prompt in the CLI.
Global commands are described in Section 5.2.1 below.
Basic commands
– These are commands that give access to a subset of specific
commands. Most basic commands, when entered with no parameters, move the CLI into a
mode to accept the specific commands. This mode change is signaled by a change in the
CLI prompt, for example, from
MN4#
to
MN4(vlan)#
.
Basic commands are described in
section 5.2.2.3: The Ethernet Command
through
section 5.2.2.16: The web Command
.
Specific commands
– These are the commands that enable you to configure, manage,
and monitor your system. They are described in the tables contained in
section 5.2.2.3: The
Ethernet Command
through
section 5.2.2.16: The web Command
.
Keyboard Navigation in the CLI
Some keys have special uses in the CLI. The table below explains how to use these keys.
5.2.1
Global Commands
Global commands take no parameters and can be entered from any prompt in the CLI.
Table 5–2
describes the CLI global commands.
Table 5–1: Keyboard Navigation
Key
Function
?
Enter the question mark character at the
Multinet4#
prompt or a
Multinet4(
basic_command
)#
prompt to view a list of available options.
Esc
While monitoring is in progress press the Escape key to abort the
Protocol Monitor.
Enter
During monitoring the
Enter
key is a
Pause/Resume
toggle. Press the
Enter
key to pause monitoring; press again to resume monitoring.
The CLI program keeps a record of the commands you have entered.
Use the Up Arrow key to move back in this command history and select
a command you have previously issued.
After you have moved back in the command history you can move
forward toward the most recently issued command using the Down
Arrow key.