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Alteon OS Command Reference
Preface
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How This Book Is Organized
Chapter 1 “The Command Line Interface,” describes how to connect to the switch and access
the information and configuration menus.
Chapter 2 “First-Time Configuration,” describes how to use the Setup utility for initial
switch configuration and how to change the system passwords.
Chapter 3 “Menu Basics,” provides an overview of the menu system, including a menu map,
global commands, and menu shortcuts.
Chapter 4 “The Information Menu,”
shows how to view switch configuration parameters.
Chapter 5 “The Statistics Menu,”
shows how to view switch performance statistics.
Chapter 6 “The Configuration Menu,” shows how to configure switch system parameters,
ports, VLANs, Spanning Tree Protocol, SNMP, Port Mirroring, IP Routing, Port Trunking, and
more.
Chapter 7 “The Operations Menu,” shows how to use commands which affect switch per-
formance immediately, but do not alter permanent switch configurations (such as temporarily
disabling ports). The menu describes how to activate or deactivate optional software features.
Chapter 8 “The Boot Options Menu,”
describes the use of the primary and alternate switch
images, how to load a new software image, and how to reset the software to factory defaults.
Chapter 9 “The Maintenance Menu,” shows how to generate and access a dump of critical
switch state information, how to clear it, and how to clear part or all of the forwarding database.
Appendix A, “Alteon OS Syslog Messages,”
shows a listing of syslog messages.
Appendix B, “Alteon OS SNMP Agent,” lists the Management Interface Bases (MIBs) sup-
ported in the switch software.
“Glossary”
includes definitions of terminology used throughout the book.
“Index”
includes pointers to the description of the key words used throughout the book.