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Chapter 10
Configuring Traffic Server
The Configure mode command list appears (shown below).
If the command list does not display, enter ? at the prompt.
Navigating Configure mode
Configure mode in a Traffic Line interactive session consists of levels of commands. Each command has a
number associated with it. To execute a command, enter its number at the command prompt, then press Return.
You can enter
?
(a question mark) at the prompt and press Return at any time to display a list of commands at
the current level.
To return to a previous command level, type
.
(a period) at the prompt and press Return.
To exit a Traffic Line interactive session, type
exit
at the prompt and press Return.
Setting configuration options in Configure mode
To set configuration options in Configure mode:
1. Start Configure mode as described in
Starting Configure mode‚ on page 76
.
2. At the prompt, enter the number that corresponds to the type of configuration you want to change, then
press Return. For example, to change protocol configuration, enter 2 at the prompt.
Each command displays a sub level of commands that group specific configuration variables together. For
example, the
Protocols
command (2) displays the following sub level of commands:
display
,
http
,
ftp
, and
nntp
.
3. To view a group of configuration options enter the number of the sub level command. Each configuration
option has a number associated with it.
4. To change a configuration option, enter the following command:
change no value
where
no
is the number associated with the configuration option and
value
is the value you want to set.
For example, to change the FTP inactivity timeout option to 200 seconds, go the
Protocols>ftp
command level, then type
change 15 200
at the prompt. 15 is the number associated
with the FTP inactivity timeout configuration option.
For a detailed description of all the configuration options available in Traffic Line, refer to
records.config‚ on
page 182
.