Chapter 3: User Interface Fundamentals; Acli Concepts; Acli Command Modes - Avaya 4550T-PWR+ Fundamentals

Chapter 3: User interface fundamentals

This chapter provides basic information to help you understand the interfaces you can use to configure
and manage an Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch. Available features depend on switch model and
configuration.

ACLI concepts

Avaya Command Line Interface (ACLI) is a text-based interface that you can use for switch
configuration and management. A common command line interface (CLI), ACLI follows the
industry standard used for device management across Avaya products.
The command modes within ACLI are listed in order of increasing privileges and each mode
is based on user logon permission level. User logon permission is determined by logon
password as supplied by your system administrator.
You can access ACLI directly through a console connection, remotely through a dial-up modem
connection, or in-band through a Telnet session.
You can use ACLI interactively or use configure network to load and execute ACLI scripts,
manually loading the script in the console menu or automatically loading the script at startup.
For more information about the command, see
using ACLI
The following topics describe ACLI command modes, provide procedures to access ACLI, and
describe ACLI help.

• ACLI command modes

• ACLI access procedures
• ACLI help
ACLI command modes
This section describes the use and purpose of ACLI command modes.
ACLI provides the following command modes:
• User EXEC
• Privileged EXEC
Fundamentals
on page 58.
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