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Enterprise Operating System Command Line Interface User Manual
Logging In and Logging Out
If spaces are not included in a parameter that accepts a string, the
quotation marks are not required around that string.
To include quotation marks in a string, use the escape character (\)
before the quotation marks.
Config.System> location "Building 24 \"Joe’s PlayLab\""
A null string can be created by using the quotation marks without
any space between them.
Config.System> location ""
Output
All output from the CLI commands is limited to the standard 80
columns supported by most Telnet interfaces. The output is
left-justified.
Logging In and Logging Out
The CLI allows a single Telnet client to be connected to the switch. If a
Telnet client logs out, or if after 15 minutes of inactivity the client’s
access times out, another Telnet client may log in. Also note that the
Telnet client (user) must log in any time the director or switch is
restarted because the current user’s access is lost. Examples of a
restart include an IPL and any power-off situation.
User Access Rights The CLI supports two user access rights: administrator and operator.
A user who logs in with administrator access rights can use all of the
commands described in this publication. Operator access rights grant
permission to use only the perf and show branches of the CLI
command tree (for example, the perf.traffic and show.system
commands) with the following exceptions: operator rights cannot
access the show.preferredPath, show.security, and
show.thresholdAlerts commands. Operators can also execute the
globally available commands (login, logout, and commaDelim).
Passwords and
Secrets Some commands require the user to enter a password or secret before
the command can be executed.
Passwords can be ASCII characters in the range of 32 to 126.
Secrets can be any ASCII character (0-255). Non-printable and
extended ASCII characters can be entered by using a backslash. Two