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If you are connecting over the LAN, then you will need to interconnect the Ethernet ports
and direct your terminal emulator program to the IP address of the
console server
(192.168.0.1 by default).
Log on to the
console server
by pressing “return” a few times. The
console server
will request a
username and password. Enter the username
root
and the password
default
. You should now
see the command line prompt which is a hash (#).
This chapter is not intended to teach you Linux. We assume you already have
a certain level of understanding before you execute Linux kernel level
commands.
The
config
tool
Syntax
config [ -ahv ] [ -d id ] [ -g id ] [ -p path ] [ -r configurator ] [ -s id=value ] [ -P id ]
Description
The
config
tool is designed to perform multiple actions from one command if needed, so options can be
chained together.
The
config
tool allows you to manipulate and query the system configuration from the command line.
Using
config,
you can activate the new configuration by running the relevant
configurator
that performs
the action needed to make the configuration changes live.
The custom user configuration is saved in the
/etc/config/config.xml
file. This file is transparently
accessed and edited when configuring the device using the Management Console browser GUI. Only the
user
“root”
can configure from the shell.
By default, the
config
elements are separated by a '.' character. The root of the
config
tree is called
<config>.
To address a specific element place a '.' between each node/branch e.g. to access and display
the description of
user1
type:
# config -g config.users.user1.description
The root node of the
config
tree is <config>. To display the entire
config
tree, type:
# config -g config
To display the help text for the
config
command, type:
# config -h
The
config
application resides in the
/bin
directory. The environmental variable called
PATH
contains a
route to the
/bin
directory. This allows a user to simply type
config
at the command prompt instead of
the full path
/bin/config
.
Options
-a
–run-all
Run all registered configurators. This performs every configuration
synchronization action pushing all changes to the live system
-h –help
Display a brief usage message