Starting and ending a session
To start a session, complete the following steps:
1. Open a terminal emulator or other session manager such as PuTTY.
2. At the prompt, type telnet IPaddress, where IPaddress is the IP address of the
3. At the Login and Password prompts, enter your user name and password. If the
If you want to use the Menu interface, see "Using the Menu interface."
If you want to use the command-line interface, see "Using the command-line
interface" on page 52.
To end a session in either the Menu interface or the command-line interface, enter
quit at any time.
Using the Menu interface
The Menu interface is available with the Telnet and SSH protocols and is in English
only.
Menu structure
The Menu interface groups the configuration parameters into the same menus and
submenus that are available through the web interface (for details about the
parameters, see "Available settings" on page 49. Table 28 on page 51 shows the
parameters arranged in the Menu interface tree.
Using the menus
To use the menus, type the number of the menu item that you want to run and then
press Enter. For example, in the following sample menu screen, to access the Trap
Receiver 2 parameters you type 2 and press Enter. To return to the previous menu
from any screen, type 0 and press Enter.
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Table 27. Color codes
Parameter or message
Read-write or write-only parameter
Read-only parameter
Warning message
Error message
network management card.
If the connection is successful, the server responds with connected to
IPaddress and a welcome message.
login is successful, the configured interface displays either Menu (the main
menu) or CLI (the #> prompt).
Color
Light green
Yellow
Green
Light red