Once you access the command line interface, the Top-level menu is displayed as shown in Figure 27.

Figure 27 Top-level menu

The command line interface is made up of two areas:

• The Menu Area - Contains the current menu of commands. The menu can contain commands to configure the stack or commands to display other menus in the command line interface. Each command is accompanied by a brief description of its purpose.

• The Command Area - Contains a Select menu option prompt where you can enter the commands displayed in the menu area.

From the Top-level menu, you can access six sub-menus:

• Bridge menu

  This menu contains commands that allow you to administer the bridging functions of the Switch, such as STP, multicast filtering, and VLANs.

• Ethernet menu

  This menu contains commands that allow you to enable or disable the ports in the stack, and view status information about them.

• Feature menu

  This menu contains commands that allow you to configure Roving Analysis Port, enable or disable Broadcast Storm Control, set up or remove resilient links, and configure Trunks on the Switch.

• IP menu

  This menu contains commands that allow you to view and change IP-related information for the stack and ping other devices in your network. It also allows you to reset the IP configuration back to factory defaults.

• SNMP menu

  This menu contains commands that allow you to view and change SNMP-related information for the stack.

• System menu

  This menu contains commands that allow you to view and configure information about the Switch units in the stack or the stack as a whole.

Figure 28 Command line interface menu structure

Entering Commands

The command area of the command line interface contains a Select menu option prompt that allows you to enter the commands in the menu area

Commands are not case-sensitive.

• To enter a simple command:

  At the prompt, enter the name of the command.

• To enter multiple commands:

  At the prompt, enter each command in succession. For example, to display the system menu and reset the Switch units in the stack, enter:

system reset

• To enter commands that require values:

  Append the values to the name of the command. For example, to display the system menu and change your password, enter:

system password <password>

If you do not specify values for a command that requires them, you are prompted to enter the values. At each prompt, the default value is displayed in brackets.

• To enter abbreviated commands

  At the prompt, enter enough characters to uniquely identify the commands. For example, to display the system menu and then change the password for your user, enter:

sy pa <password>

There are several ways to display the menus in the command line interface menu structure:

• To display sub-menus:

  At the Select menu option prompt, enter the name of the menu or menus.

• To display parent menus:

  At the Select menu option prompt, enter q.

• To display the Top-level menu:

  Press the [Esc] key.

You can access the command line interface help system at any time by entering ? at the Select menu option prompt.