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P-871H Series User’s Guide
60 Chapter 10 Introduction to CLI
10.2.1 Command Conventions
The system uses a one-level command structure. You must type the full command every time,
as follows.
192.168.1.1> <command>
For instance, the following example displays current VLAN status.
192.168.1.1> sys sw vlan status
The conventions for typing in most CI commands are shown next.
command <interface|device> subcommand [parameter]
command subcommand [parameter]
10.2.2 Command Syntax Conventions
• Command keywords are in
courier new
font.
• The
|
symbol means “or”.
• Required fields in a command are enclosed in angle brackets
<>
. Use the following
command to turn the system monitor on or off.
sys monitor enable <on/off>
• Optional fields in a command are enclosed in square brackets
[]
, for example, year,
month and day are optional in the following command. This command just displays the
date if you don’t specify the year, month and day parameters.
sys date [year month day]
• Commands can be abbreviated to the smallest unique string that differentiates the
command. For example the “system date” command could be abbreviated to “s d”.
Note: Type all commands as displayed on the screen.
10.2.3 Getting Help
Type “
help
” or “
?
” to display a list of valid commands or type a command followed by
“
help
” or “
?
” to display a list of associated subcommands.
The following figure shows a sample help information.
Figure 32 CLI Help: Sample Output
ras> ?
Valid commands are:
sys exit config ip vdsl
ras> vdsl ?
port ptmf version
ras>