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CLI Configuration
This chapter includes these sections:
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What Is CLI?
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Entering the CLI
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3Com Products CLI Descriptions
the CLI
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Tips on Using
urations
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CLI Config
Wha
it it to your device. At the CLI, you can enter commands to configure
your switch, and verify the configuration based on the output. Thus, the CLI facilitates your switch
ement.
Ente
Console Port
t Is CLI?
The command line interface (CLI) is an interface where you can interact with your device by typing text
commands. At the CLI, you can instruct your device to perform a given task by typing a text command
and then pressing
Enter
to subm
configuration and manag
ring the CLI
The Switch 4500 provides multiple methods of entering the CLI, as follows:
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Through the console port. For more information, see
Entering CLI Through the
.
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Through Telnet. For more information, see
Entering CLI Through Telnet
.
information, see
SSH Configuration
.
Enter
3Com switch for the first time, you can log in to the switch and enter the CLI
thro
1)
. Plug the DB-9
rt of your PC. Then plug the RJ-45
.
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Through SSH with encryption. For more
ing CLI Through the Console Port
When you use the CLI of a
through the console port only. Follow these steps to log in to your 3Com switch and enter the CLI
ugh the console port:
Use the console cable shipped with your switch to connect your PC to your switch
(female) connector of the console cable into the 9-pin serial po
connector of the console cable into the console port of your switch
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